WALKING ABOUT

Walking about is a series of performative and participatory walks that travel across Auckland with Te Hau ā Uru – the West Wind.

The walks are artworks – guided experiences leading audiences and participants across Auckland – created by twelve artists: Suzanne Cowan, Vanessa Crofskey, Christina Houghton, Melissa Laing, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Andrew McMillan, Richard Orjis, Rosanna Raymond, val smith, Pīta Turei, Layne Waerea and Becca Wood.

Walking about maps cartographies outside the everyday routes of transport. Its walks-as-artworks follow stories, pathways of the imagination and the senses, awa (rivers) and maunga (volcanic hills), uncovering the hidden trajectories of our urban and bush terrain. 

Using seasonal and astronomical calendars the walks will spread across the year beginning in Mahuru (September) 2019 as the pīpīwharauroa begin to sing for Spring and finishing in Aponga (August) as Winter blows its last gusts.

More information is available on the Walking about website.

Our next walk, queer walk-nap-walk-nap-yakyak-nap, is presented by val smith on Saturday 15 February, 6.30am/11.30am and Sunday 16 February, 7.30pm/11.30pm, moving westward in relation to Te Wai Ōrea, Western Springs Park

September 2019 – August 2020