TY - BOOK AU - Houghton,Christina AU - Laing,Melissa AU - Wood,Becca ED - Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, TI - About walking: 15 months of artist walks in Tāmaki Auckland SN - 0473553910 U1 - 709.932 23 PY - 2021/// CY - [Auckland] PB - Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery KW - Artists KW - New Zealand KW - Auckland KW - Walking N1 - "About walking, September 2019-November 2020, curated by Christina Houghton and Melissa Laing"--Colophon; "... a set of questions have emerged: what is it to know a place through the affective and intellectual affordances that art provides; how does situating your work within and in partnership with the environment it passes through shape live experience and collective connection; what is the relationship between walking, art and knowledge; and, finally, what is specific in Aotearoa New Zealand to creative walking practices, a globally mobilised art form? In partnership with Te Uru and Pīta Turei, we developed About walking to explore these questions. About walking was a program of performance based walks travelling through time, across a fifteen month period, and through geography, across west Auckland"--Seasons of walking, page 6; Includes bibliographical references; Artist pages: Jeremy Leatinu'u -- Vanessa Crofskey -- Layne Waerea and Lana Lopesi -- Pīta Turei -- Melissa Laing -- Suzanne Cowan and Rodney Bell -- Christina Houghton -- Becca Wood -- Andrew McMillan -- Val Smith -- Richad Orjis and Marika Pratley ER -