Project Pedestrian

Tag: Art on Walking

  • Text Walking

    Text Walking

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    Mark Wihak
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    Among the influences on Project Pedestrian is the Text Walking project of Calgary-based artist Baco Ohama, where she gathers text found while walking (signs, graffiti, posters) and uses them as sources for poetry, artist books, postcards, and videos. Baco and I met in the early 1990s in Montreal when we were both doing MFAs at…

  • Cardiff Walks

    Cardiff Walks

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    Mark Wihak
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    The Canadian artist Janet Cardiff works in a range of mediums, often in collaboration with her life partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff started creating audio walks in the 1990s. Designed for specific locales, the audio walks guide you along, in your headphones the sound of voices whispering, telling stories, giving directions, recorded sound fx blending…