The Walking Project was a series of experimental pieces aimed at developing an aesthetic language of non-normativity in media performance. 

The premise of the Walking Project was the use of wearable devices worn by performers with disabilities to generate live media, animation and sound as digital amplifications of physical differences.  The group engaged in a collaborative methodology to create works in which performers moved in dialogue with the visuals generated by their movements. The Walking Project included a phase of conceptual and technological development, The eVokability Project (2003-5) in which Sarah Drury worked with Dis/abilities scholar Carol Marfisi to workshop ideas, devices and performance experiments.  This foundational work was presented as a performance by the group at the Performances Studies International  Conference (Psi), “Becoming Uncomfortable”, at Brown University in 2005. The project was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts to develop The Walking Project performance, presented in 2007 in New York and Philadelphia.  Participating performers included choreographer Cathy Weis, filmmaker Shelly Barry, and Gender and Disabilities Studies scholar Lezlie Frye.  The project was supported by technologists Charlie Hoey and Seth Erickson, production assistant Luke Schantz and Maori Holmes who worked on publicity for the final shows.

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