Walking On Water is a collaboration between Nathaniel Sullivan and Jay Muhlin.

Walking on Water is an interactive guided audio walking tour that aims to connect people with the pleasures of walking in the city of Syracuse, New York. Syracuse has been historically mapped divided along class lines, with the Interstate 81 overpass both a monument to that division and an ongoing barrier that prevents meaningful interactions between communities. Being a pedestrian in a city defines civic identity in a unique way, and opens the walker to connections that cannot be made by other forms of transport.

Walking On Water began with the prompt to engage Syracuse University students with a rich, ongoing civic story and to encourage walking as way of interfacing with the city. Through collaborations with members of the university community on historical narratives, re-enactments and performances, which are documented on the tour, Walking on Water addresses the divide between the university community and the city at large.

Walking On Water is an open-ended, constantly shifting public art piece, directed through the tour, delivered by the narratives and enacted by each walker. Later in the exhibition several group performance events along the route will occur; including the singing of the Erie Canal song by Orange Appeal, a Syracuse University A cappella group.

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