A Sea Journey on Foot
Monique Besten
10th June, 2020
Walking artist Monique Besten tells the story of a 55-day walk to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, excerpted from a piece originally published in Dark Mountain: Issue 9.
Monique Besten
Monique Besten is an artist, writer and educator based in Barcelona and Amsterdam. She makes long-distance performative walks through Europe and researches slow waysof being, connections between artistic media and different fields of life. She teaches performance art and artistic survival skills at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL and is a longtime contributor to Dark Mountain books and events.
My Posts
A Soft Armour
Monique Besten
28th March, 2014
I never stopped walking afterwards. Short distances. Longer distances. Walking words. My own name. The...