[1]:50 Scholars have discussed walkwalkwalk's works in a variety of contexts, including psychogeography,[2][3] walking as an artistic medium,[1] Live Art,[4] and criminology.
[5] walkwalkwalk was formed in 2005, when Burton, Korda and Qualmann were "looking for a way to create artistic work that didn't require a budget or institutional affiliation.
[9] As Mike Collier describes it, 'walkwalkwalk drift through the streets of Bethnal Green collecting stories and objects, creating a narrative of place.
[1][11] Deirdre Heddon and Cathy Turner refer to their work as "a sort of anti-dérive",[2] noting that walkwalkwalk "consciously détourn Debord’s expression of outrage [over the limited triangle of movement most people inhabit] by specifically mapping their own daily routes to define a triangle: ‘rather than diverging from it we decided we would explore relationships within it'".
[11] Likewise, Blake Morris contrasts their "resolutely local explorations" with the type of epic walks "typified by literary psychogeographer Iain Sinclar's [ .