Hamish Fulton: Slowalk
Newcastle Quayside 

For the finale of AV Festival 12, this leading British artist devises one of his legendary slow walks for Newcastle.

Since the 1960s, Fulton has produced images and text pieces responding to his physical engagement with rural and urban landscapes. In 1973, he resolved to only make art resulting from individual walks. Devising group walks from the early 1990s onwards, he has completed over 30 across the world, including Japan, Norway and the USA. Most recently, he created slow walks for Margate’s Turner Contemporary and Tate Modern. 

Fulton’s slow walks are mass participation events, bringing hundreds of people together to walk very slowly in silence as a meditative experience. For AV Festival, the artist leads a group walk on a landmark post-industrial site near the River Tyne. Participants are both the art and the audience.