Books/Readings | Walking as Artistic Practice

Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann (Editor), Claire Hind (Editor) – a book of scores (directions for walking)
Prompts for Participatory Walks edited by Todd Shalom – this is really great for those interested in group walks (has a link to the free PDF download on this page)
Walk Ways by Tom Marioni (2002)
The Art of Walking: A Field Guide. by David Evans. ISBN: 978-1907317873
The Vintage Book of Walking, edited by Duncan Minshull. Random House UK, 2000.
On Procession edited by Rebecca Uchill
Through the Labyrinth by Herman Kern. ISBN: 978-3791321448
The Situationists and the City: A Reader. edited by Tom McDonough. ISBN: 9781844673643
Walking Detroit by JeeYeun Lee. ISBN: 9780578717845
Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking by Dieter Roelstraete (2010). ISBN: 978-1846380587
London Walking: a Handbook for Survival by Simon Pope (2001). ISBN: 978-1841660561
Iain Sinclair has several books about walking, such as London Orbital in which he walks the M25 highway that encircles London
Pacing by Francis Alÿs (2014). ISBN: 978-84-941462-6-8

Sandals, Leah. “Step by Step: Artists Walk to Resist Colonization, Ableism and More” in canadianart. June 22, 2017
Chan, Michelle. “Walk With Me,” Frieze. September 7, 2017.
Morrell, Amish (editor). C Magazine. Spring 2014 edition.
“Theory of the Dérive,” first published in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958): Debord-Theory_Of_The_Derive
Gleber, Anke. “Female Flanerie and the Symphony of the City.” Women in the metropolis : gender and modernity in Weimar culture. Ed. Katharina von Ankum. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Hammergren, Lena. “The Re-turn of the flâneuse.” Corporealities. Ed. S. L. Foster. New York and London: Routledge, 1996: 53-67.
Jabr, Ferris. “Why Walking Helps us Think ” The New Yorker (2014)
How walking helps…

Open City by Teju Cole.
The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn
The Walk by Robert Walser (tedious, but I can see how some might enjoy the stream of consciousness approach)
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (haven’t read it)