walkwalkwalk, a night walk with Clare Qualmann and Gail Burton - Whitechapel Gallery

walkwalkwalk, a night walk with Clare Qualmann and Gail Burton

  • walkwalkwalk, nightwalk midsummer, 2006, photo Barnaby Hewlett

    walkwalkwalk, nightwalk midsummer, 2006, photo © Barnaby Hewlett

Thu 30 Jul, 8.00-10.30pm

Monday Closed
Tuesday 11am–6pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Thursday 11am–9pm
Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm

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walkwalkwalk, a night walk with Clare Qualmann and Gail Burton

Between 2004 and 2010 walkwalkwalk: an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten (Gail Burton, Serena Korda, Clare Qualmann) scored a repeated route of shared nightwalking through the streets of East London. The mapped route, created from their urban routines, invited others to re-walk and just walk, with no destination purpose. The project collected, collated, and re-presented artefacts and stories from the shifting edges and over-looked details as an archaeology.

It is 21 years since the first walk, and 16 since the last – titled ‘Things that have gone’. walkwalkwalk invite you to join them to walk the original route, with a commemorative re-issue of the map, and add to the archaeology of things that have gone.

The route is approximately 2 miles, with pauses along the way. Participants will be invited to put their phones aside and experience the walk unmediated. Annotated maps and anecdotes are welcomed.

This event is part of Backyard Biennial.

Gail Burton

Gail Burton is an artist with a long-standing interest in how her body connects to place and history.  Her work explores how language, ritual/repetition and gesture/movement are a means to uncover and attach to her environment, and in turn ‘inscribe’ history and story.

Clare Qualmann

Clare Qualmann is a London based artist/researcher whose work focuses on site specific and experimental modes of creative production, often using walking. Her practice explores the interconnections between art, activism and the radical potentials of participation.


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