It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,

Joe Richardson explores how walking and drawing activate shifts between roles and selves in Drawing Walks and Intervals as Activation Devices.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, Joe reflects on the work. Moving between roles Many contemporary artists will relate to feeling that they are constantly required to move between different roles and identities, switching headspaces,

We arrived in the flatlands of the Charente in the last days of May, carrying laptops, agendas, PowerPoints about our deliverables, European acronyms and all the fragile optimism required to believe that human beings from five countries can agree on anything. It was a heatwave. Our nostrils tingled with the whiff of ammonia rising from