The Museum of Walking
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: June 15, 2025 – June 23, 2025
Kimball Art Center announces the Museum of Walking with Angela Ellsworth and KB Thomason as its 2025 Artists-in-Residence.
www.museumofwalking.org
KB Thomason is an intermedia artist, researcher and archivist working in collaboration with the Museum of Walking. In the face of a culture obsessed with the cult of personal identity (and its maintenance / projection), she (the artist) is currently experimenting with the potential annulment of biographically fixed identification, for the duration of (this now). In a sense, the elaboration of chronological personal details, trajectory specific art-life accomplishments and other culturally relevant signifiers are rather inconsequential to the pursuit at hand, ie: the work. However, the artist humbly acknowledges the potential failures inherent in such an attempt: this very statement in the place of a “bio” is paradoxically absurd, gratuitously irreverent, and equally as irrelevant as any word count with an emphasis on a place of origin or pedigree.
the way we walk
9:00-11:00 am (30 minute introduction, 1 hour walk, 30 minute reflection)
“…beyond orienting and establishing a dialogue between the walker and the environment, soundwalking has also an aesthetic potential and “reveals the poetics of space.” – H. Westerkamp
“Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.” – R. Solnit
The Museum of Walking invites participants on a leisurely soundwalk to begin at the Kimball Art Center on Saturday June 21st from 9-11am.
the way we walk calls our attention towards a deeper listening experience through diverse forms of traversing physical space while tuning into the terrain of the everyday.
As a group, meandering together in real time – we will attempt at circumnavigating social habituation and practice attuning ourselves towards a more conscientious maneuvering of the complex dimensions of our shared realities / environment(s), nuance that often falls towards the imperceptible on a day-to-day basis.
During their week-long residency at Kimball Art Center, the Museum of Walking will engage in site-specific walking / listening research and practice (including performing various score-based walks, drafting experimental cartographies, deep listening field recordings, and/or getting lost) which will inform the trajectory, texture, and soundscape composition of the live collective walk.
