Clare Qualmann is a British multi-media performance artist based in London, UK. She is a senior lecturer in performing arts at the University of East London[1] and also teaches at London Metropolitan University.[2]
Clare Qualmann is a British multi-media performance artist based in London, UK. She is a senior lecturer in performing arts at the University of East London[1] and also teaches at London Metropolitan University.[2]
Qualmann's work uses a range of participatory methods to explore the routines and narratives of everyday life.[3][4] A large body of her work focuses on the practice of walking as a way to interrogate the familiarity of place[5] and has been described as “a kind of anti-dérive”.[4]
Qualmann is a member of walkwalkwalk with Gail Burton and Serena Korda, who practice "'an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten," organising public walks through familiar places deemed marginal or overlooked.[6]
As a solo artist Qualmann has further developed her walking practice. Qualmann is a founding member of the international Walking Artists Network, created in 2007.[7] Through the network Qualmann has organised numerous walking research events and exhibitions, including the Step by Step seminar series at the University of East London, the footwork research group,[8] and Where To? Towards the Future Steps of Walking at Falmouth University with Misha Myers.[9]