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Monique Besten is a walking artist, writer, performer, historian, practitioner and activist. She studied Medieval,Cultural history, Media Art and Public art in The Netherlands, Ireland and Germany.she has produced numorous exhabitions and projects and has been the recipient of grants including; Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts,Stefan and Viera Frühauf Fund (Switzerland) and the KiK Foundation (Art in Kolderveen). she is known for her long distance walking work and is the subject of articles and publications discussing the use of walking as and art practice.

Key Works

 * The New Riddles And constellations (2014). Over four to eight weeks she invites a range of different artists to join and work next to each other.  This leads on to developing new work. On her walks she wears a 3-piece suit which has stitched embroidery pieces of art inspired by he journeys. She takes photos, writing, drawing and videos to document and create art out of her work.
 * The Plastic Crusader Walk (2012) A 64km walk that traveled from Amsterdam to Utrecht. Her aim was to collect every piece of waist plastic she could find. she attached each piece of plastic to herself that then created a large snail shape carried on her back. she gave it to the 'Metaal Kathedraal' and became part of and installation called the '8th continent.'
 * A Soft Armour, a suit Monique wore for 108 days was shown in AirSpace gallery window (2016) . The walk started in Amsterdam the Nomadic village in the south of France (2013). She sewed a new price of text or images and names of the people she had met along the way to the inside of her three piece suit everyday. this created a collaged map of how she saw the world. Through the performance she also wrote reflections which are also on display.
 * The Dark Mountain Project based in Shockholm (October 2015- May 2016). A variation of artists, theatre makers, performers and writers began their walk through the dark. The walk around meeting at various places picking up new people to join then and give them more clues into their culture along their way. They invited new guests, artists, writers, performers and theatre markers one being Monque Besten in Stockholm (15th February 2016). With her they tried to discover and work out the way in which we talk about what is going on in the world.
 * http://www.darkmountain.se/en/a-night-with-the-dark-mountain-workshop/