Linda Karshan

WALKED DRAWINGS

In this groundbreaking genre of WALKED DRAWINGS, Karshan’s feet become her drawing points, approaching historical spaces in the same way she approaches the paper medium. She coalesces with each space to enact walked lines and movements that embody her internal rhythm and form. Following the patterns of her breath and her intuitive “inner choreography”, Karshan walks in precise patterns of straight lines that recall her drawings on paper, sometimes stopping to embellish a particular point with a few steps of dancelike footwork. As she moves through each space, Karshan’s footsteps resound off the walls and floors in an interplay of echoes and rhythms to create auditory portraits. The artist herself becomes a living presence giving voice to the place itself.

- Ishmael Annobil, collaborator and film director, Stonedog Productions

WALKING THE WESTERN RANGE II
Western Galleries, British Museum, London
July 24, 2023

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and filmed by Ishmael Annobil

Director/Editor: Ishmael Annobil
Cinematographer/Associate Editor: Max Mallen
Gimbal/Camera Operator: Gian Maria Urbinati
Sound Recordist; Filipe Pinheiro
Documentarian: Benedicte Delay
Location Manager: Sandra Smith
Logistics: Glen John Baptiste

SPIRAL
Spiral Staircase, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London
November 25, 2022

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and filmed by Ishmael Annobil

A momentous, testimonial walked drawing enacted by Linda Karshan, through the Western Galleries of The British Museum, on 24 July 2023. It was commissioned by Hartwig Fischer.

The Spiral memorialises the locus of a historical spiral staircase prior its relocation within The Courtauld Institute, Somerset House. Enacted on 25th November 2023

Director: Ishmael Annobil
Producers: Linda Karshan & Ishmael Annobil
Cinematography: Max Mallen
Sound Recordist: Nikos Nikolalaios
Facilitators: Leyla Arrianne Bumbra & Acadia Finbow
Commissioned by: Deborah Swallow & Laura Palmer

LINDA KARSHAN : TWO FEET WALKING
for the Women’s Art Collection
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
2022

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and filmed by Ishmael Annobil

FLATFORM I, II & III
Linda Karshan’s Dulwich Studio, London
August 9, 2022

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and filmed by Ishmael Annobil

FOUR WALKED ROOMS
2018-2019

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and filmed by Ishmael Annobil

__

1

Linda’s Room: A Moth can Turn the Balance

San Giorgio Maggiore Abbey, Venice, Italy,
September 2018

__

2

Two Feet Walking: Moti del’Animo

Study Room of the British Museum, London
February 2019

__

3

Graphite Stroke: Taking a Line for a Walk

Courtyard of Somerset House , London
March 2019

—

4

All True Grace is Economical

Karshan’s studio in Dulwich, London
May 2019

Walked Drawings diptych produced in conjunction with
DRAW ART FAIR, MAY 2019, SAATCHI GALLERY, LONDON

THE BLACKBIRD SONG / FOUND OBJECT : EN MARCHE
March 2019

Choreographed by Linda Karshan

A Stonedog Production, Directed and Filmed by Ishmael Annobil

—

THE BLACKBIRD SONG
March 2019

—

FOUND OBJECT: EN MARCHE
March 2019