An innovative collaborative project organised by the School of Music and Fine Art in partnership with Whitstable Biennale has proved to be a huge success. The recent walk on 21 March with artist Mike Nelson quickly became fully booked, attracting over 40 people, including curators from Tate Modern and the Whitechapel, a curator of the Architecture Biennial in Venice, filmmakers, writers, poets, artists and students.

Says Adam Chodzko, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in The School of Music & Fine Art and one of the organisers: “Mike Nelson is one of the UK’s most important artists. Twice nominated for the Turner Prize and previously representing Britain at the Venice Biennale, it was his dislike of public speaking that led to us developing this different approach (walking) in order to develop a different kind of discourse between students and artists and place.”

The 4 walks aim to test the proposition that a walking journey with an artist is as valuable as hearing them address a lecture theatre, and that sharing a range of sights and sounds would reveal something that slides and video clips do not.  Each route culminates at a point along the Medway estuary or river Swale, forming a string of reference points between which the connections between the walks can be contemplated.

For images from the walk go to: http://mikenelsonartistwalk.tumblr.com/

The final walk with Brian Dillon is on 9 April. For more details of the walks go to: www.whitstablebiennale.com