Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book

Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book 

Cologne, Germany: Walther Konig, 2005

344 pp., 6.9 x 1.5 x 9.6", hardcover

Edition size unknown

Edited by Thyssen Bornemisza, this survey of Cardiff's walks (Paris, London, New York, etc.) from between 1991 and 2004 includes a site-specific 'walk' through the book itself. It also includes a 35 track audio CD [track listing below] of Cardiff’s voice, mounted to the cover. 

The Walk Book Limited Edition comes with a portable CD player, and additional printed materials, housed in a black box. 

"The Walk Book works like a garden, inviting you to follow its paths, which branch off in different directions. Like a labyrinth, the book has more than one entrance. You may enter it to read the texts, to look at the pictures, or to hear the artist’s voice on a CD included in the book as it leads you through the texts and images. It’s about the disappearance of places and memory loss, but also about offering something unique to whoever picks up the book, something that participants take along with them in time. The Walk Book collects and preserves some of the words and dialogues that are part of Cardiff’s walks, transposing them into a literary form and yet dissolving all possible determinations and codifications.”

- publisher’s blurb

1 Beginning Of Walk p.233

2 Münster Walk p.70

3 P.S.1 Walk p.117

4 Leaving The Building

5 Münster Walk p.102

6 The Missing Voice p.99

7 Taking Pictures p.168

8 Bench Stop p.151

9 Louisiana Walk p.116

10 Villa Medici Walk

11 Gas Station p.141

12 Drogan's Nightmare p.180

13 Words Drawn In Water, Hirshhorn Museum

14 Her Long Black Hair, Computer Edit Printout p.51

15 Her Long Black Hair (George's Edit Script) p.52

16 Her Long Black Hair (George's Edit Script) p.57

17 Wands Walk p.96 p.315 (Picture)

18 A Large Slow River p.97 p.331 (Picture)

19 Münster Walk p.103

20 Münster Walk p.105

21 Ghost Machine p.167

22 Ghost Machine p.183

23 Mallin's Night Walk p.209

24 The Telephone Call p.210

25 Münster Walk p.214

26 Ghost Machine p.218

27 Conspiracy Theory p.229

28 Conspiracy Theory p.230

29 The Empty Room p.266 p.309 (Picture)

30 Drogan's Nightmare p.272 p.319 (Picture)

31 In Real Time p.329

32 Ghost Machine p.302

33 The Telephone Call p.225

34 Villa Medici Walk p.269

35 Louisiana Walk p.311