Walking as an Art Form and Community Practice

Walking has a history as an art form. Through walking the aesthetics of the landscape can be seen, felt and interpreted. Walking is also a community-practice when it brings together a group of walkers who are prompted to connect with one another and the environment. It has been said that walking unites the body with the mind, and this points to how artists collect data, which is through the senses.

The Maine-Greenland Collaborations project integrates treks as a way to comprehend local ecologies and the relationship of individuals and communities to the environment. The treks, which have taken place on Long Island, Maine and in South Greenland, are seen in the context of art and community practice.

TREK: Long Island Drift

A public walk offered in cooperation with PLATFORM PROJECTS/WALKS & SPEEDWELL PROJECTS & MAINE-GREENLAND COLLABORATIONS took place on September 19, 2020.

For more information: LONG ISLAND DRIFT

Photo Credit: Julie Poitras-Santos

TREK: South Greenland

Maine-Greenland Collaborators trekked the gravel road to Sermilik Fjord on June 10th, 2022.

Video Credit: Samantha Comeau

Trek Map: Izaak Onos and Vinton Valentine