The space for research on walking includes
selected books, articles and links to online
resources in the Angewandte Library.
Resources include different researches,
practices and approaches about walking
as an urban, artistic and political action.
The reading room is open for on-site
research throughout May during the
opening hours of the Library.
In this performative talk, the artist gives an insight into
the field of study of strollology or promenadology,
founded by the sociologist, economist and philosopher
Lucius Burckhardt. Burckhardt adopted the perspec-
tive of the stroller in formulating his criticisms of prevail-
ing automobile-centric planning practices and used
strolling as a pedagogic approach. The talk describes
the context in which strollology took place; including
actions, interventions and strolling practice in the society,
the art field predating strollology. The final part of the
talk focuses on strolling practice and interventions since
the field of strollology disappeared from the university
curriculum upon Burckhardt‘s retirement.
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Along with this walking seminar, Elke Krasny shares
historical and contemporary texts related to bodies
and their collective moves. Reproductive rights, health
rights, labour rights, rights to education, rights to
vote, rights to work… Who were those who marched
for those rights? How did they organise politically?
How did they move collectively? The walking seminar
seeks to practice walking, thinking and reading col-
lectively while moving in public space. Such a practice
is performative and commemorative. Participants will
reflect on what it means to remember past marches and
strikes, as they again take place today addressing
the contemporary condition of multiple crises.
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Shared Walks is an initiative that creates encounters by
walking in public space. It connects people to walk
together, initiates social interactions and creates possibili-
ties for the appropriation of space and participation
in cities. Participants walk together in pairs, collect and
share observations, impressions, thoughts, feelings,
memories, stories, associations etc, and map the neigh-
bourhood from different perspectives. 30 types of
walks in the card set propose minor changes to the way
we walk normally. Shared Walks participants will have
the chance to walk with visitors, neighbours and professio-
nals working in the area.
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Angewandte Library, 5th floor
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
By Gerhard Lang
Social Design Studio, 4th floor
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
By Elke Krasny
Meeting point:
Mariahilferstraße-Rahlstiege
1060 Vienna
Registration required:
sharedwalks@gmail.com
By Eylem Ertürk and
Bernd Rohrauer
During #kommraus
Meeting point:
Favoritenstraße-Johannitergasse
1100 Vienna
Readings on
Walking
How Discoverers
Discover
On Bodies and
Their Collective
Moves
Shared
Walks
6–
31
7
8
17
READING
ROOM
TALK
WALKING
SEMINAR
WALK
MON–
THU
9:30–
18:00
FRI
9:30–
16:00
TUE
14:00–
17:00
WED
14:00–
16:00
FRI
16:00–
19:00
A Month of Walking
as Artistic Practice
MAY
2019
Curated by Eylem Ertürk and Bernd Rohrauer
Shared Walks
What does your town look like from someone else’s per-
spective? What’s it like to hold hands with a complete
stranger and walk through the city centre? Performance
art and mobile technology converge in Walking:Holding,
a meditative documentary by Rosana Cade, Claire Nolan
and Charlie Cauchi, that journeys through urban land-
scapes exploring identity and intimacy in public space
with a focus on LGBTQ+ experiences. This film is a
response to Glasgow based artist Rosana Cade’s award-
winning interactive performance, which invites audience
members to embark on a carefully designed route through
a town whilst holding hands with a series of different
local participants. The screening will be followed by an
artist talk online.
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Travelling on foot is the most intuitive way of locomotion,
yet walking in the Virtual can be a traumatic experience.
Virtual characters are often driven into unavoidable obsta-
cles, their motions being challenged and resulting in
dramatic moments. Working with the Virtual as an artistic
medium often embraces digital artefacts and imperfec-
tions that arise during the creational and computational
process. In her talk, the artist will look at the virtual bodies
in motion, the avatars as perceivable entities as well as
walkable artistic Virtual Realities, in which imperfections
trigger a sense of ‘intellectual uncertainty’, where the
boundaries between ‘real’ and virtual, animate and inani-
mate, human and non-human get blurred.
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The work ‘Operation Jane Walk’ by Robin Klengel and
Leonhard Müllner examines the innovative potential
of walking in computer games. In this performance, the
hostile military environment of a shooter-game is mis-
appropriated for an architectural tour. The gameplay is
reduced to walking and instead of a martial action in
a city as the backdrop of the game, it becomes the nar-
rative foreground. The Walking Simulator leads into
the warlike worlds of computer games and shows ways
of desertion from digital war zones. Artists will discuss
case studies and test tactics of resisting and refusing to
command, especially in the context of walking.
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Oliver Hangl is a performance/media artist and an urban
activist. His work marks a consistent confrontation bet-
ween man and the environment, pushing the boundaries
between physical and psychological spaces. In his talk,
the artist will present a selection of his urban walks, rides
and trails, with a focus on various implementations of
narratives. In the workshop, Hangl proposes a short nar-
ration, by which participants are challenged to develop
a set of ‘translations’ from fiction into an uncontrolled field
of action: reality – on streets or public spaces of Vienna.
Hence, a variety of methods and approaches will be imple-
mented, followed by a final assessment of the process
and outcomes.
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By Rosana Cade
FLUX 2, 2nd floor
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
By Martina Menegon
Social Design Studio, 4th floor
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
By Leonhard Müllner
and Robin Klengel
Social Design Studio, 4th floor
University of Applied Arts Vienn
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
By Oliver Hangl
Social Design Studio, 4th floor
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
1030 Vienna
Walking:
Holding
Walk-on-the-
wild-side:
Beyond Walking
in Virtual Spaces
Walking
Simulator
Walking
Narratives,
Instant Tools
FILM
SCREENING &
TALK
TALK
LIVE ONLINE
PERFORMANCE
& TALK
WORKSHOP
WED
16:00–
18:00
TUE
16:00–
19:00
TUE
13:00–
15:00
WED
10:00–
16:00
TALK
22
23
28
28
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Walk May Talk
is a programme looking at different
aspects of walking as an artistic practice
through a series of talks and walks, screenings,
interactive performances and workshops in
Vienna throughout May 2019. It aims to create
a space for exploration, discussion and inspi-
ration in dealing with different issues in cities.
The programme presents experiences and
reflections on identity and queer perspectives
in public spaces, collective political movements
of bodies, the science and artistic practice of
strollology as well as different perceptions of
walking in real and virtual spaces.
THU
16:00–
18:00