Walking Library for a Wild City: new understandings of peripatetic performance and reading

"The Walking Library for Wild City" (WLfWC) is located in the field of site-specific performance and participatory public art. It is part of a series of subsequent commissioned events, each original in conception and findings, which generates knowledge of natural environments in urban spaces and people’s perceptions of them through situated and participatory walking and reading performances. This work contributes new understandings of the significant role that situated and peripatetic performance and reading have at a time when libraries and books are undergoing transformation in the digital age. The project was funded by Glasgow European Championships Festival 2018, Glasgow Life and University of Glasgow and included participation from 370 members of the public. The project was mentioned as a distinctive example of women walking artists in the Women Who Walk episode of the BBC Radio 4 The Art of Now series broadcast on 8 October 2018, featured in the RSBP, Scottish Natural Heritage, Grow Wild and Edgework blogs.