Six artists. Six artistic journeys. One shared landscape.

Every edition of Made of Walking brings together artists whose practices approach walking from different directions. Some begin with movement, others with sound, plants, memory, performance, storytelling or technology. Together they create a temporary artistic community in which diverse methods, disciplines and experiences meet.

For the tenth anniversary edition in Prosperpolder, six international artists have been invited to spend nine days walking, researching and creating alongside local communities. Rather than arriving with finished works, each artist develops a site-responsive project that grows through encounters with the landscape and the people who inhabit it.

Together they explore this year’s theme, Common Ground: Corresponding with Place, asking how artistic practice can help us perceive, inhabit and imagine places differently.

Katerina Drakopoulou (Greece)

Choreographies of Attention

Katerina Drakopoulou returns to Made of Walking almost exactly ten years after participating in the original gathering in Delphi. Her project 22 Stops, initially conceived as a long-duration Butoh performance in Athens and later transformed into a participatory work during Made of Walking 2017, has evolved into an artistic research methodology exploring attention, embodied cartography and the poetics of everyday life.

In the abandoned village of Doel, 22 Stops enters a new collective chapter. Walking slowly through streets suspended between abandonment and possibility, participants will create fragile choreographies that invite new ways of imagining the future of the village.

Simone Etter (Switzerland)

Walking as Social Practice

Swiss artist Simone Etter approaches walking as a long-term social and relational practice.  She builds relationships as works of art by creating plattforms or mindful encounters in everyday life — encounters between people and place — as a living art practice. 

In Beveren she will collaborate with young people to create a participatory walk through the peri-urban landscape of Melsele and Zwijndrecht, exploring how everyday environments become spaces of imagination, exchange and belonging.

Ienke Kastelein (The Netherlands)

The Landscape as Performance

For interdisciplinary artist Ienke Kastelein walking is simultaneously a form of research, performance and scenography. Interested in perception, presence and the senses, she regards public space as both studio and stage, inviting participants to experience the landscape as a performance unfolding around and through them.

In the border landscape of Prosperpolder, Ienke Kastelein explores the relationships between people and the ecological system of the polder, uncovering subtle connections between bodies, habitats and a changing landscape. Sensory encounters unfold at the threshold between water and land, the rhythm of the tides and the vastness of the sky.

Alba Sauleda (Spain)

Dreaming Together

Catalan artist Alba Sauleda develops participatory artistic methodologies inspired by Mad Studies, exploring wellbeing, inclusion and collective imagination. During the residency she will work with participants from the day centres De Bron and De Stroom, creating walks, songs and encounters inspired by Io, the wandering woman of Greek mythology. Alongside these activities, her Dreamboxes invite participants to collect dreams and stories, beginning not from what separates us but from what connects us.

Fred Adam (France)

From Microcosmos to Planet

New media artist and researcher Fred Adam explores how locative media and mobile technologies can deepen our relationship with the living world. As co-founder of Locative Media Supercluster, his work connects ecological observation, artistic practice and digital storytelling.

His walk Microcosmos invites participants to discover planetary relationships hidden within the smallest plants, insects and organisms of Prosperpolder, while his installation The Mobile Wetland transforms smartphones into a digital landscape of the invisible life of the polder.

Marc Dhaenens (Belgium)

Landscape, Memory and Heritage

Belgian artist Marc Dhaenens explores the layered histories embedded within landscapes. Working around Fort Liefkenshoek, he investigates how traces of memory, heritage and place continue to shape contemporary experience, inviting participants to discover the stories that remain present within the landscape itself.

Walking Together

Although each artist develops a distinct project, the residency is built around dialogue and exchange. Walks intersect, ideas migrate between projects, and participants are encouraged to move freely between activities. Throughout the week, performances, workshops, public presentations, Gigacircus’ Migrating VOICES, collaborative mapping, storytelling sessions and informal conversations create opportunities for artists, residents and visitors to learn from one another.

Made of Walking has always been less about presenting finished works than about creating the conditions in which new relationships, artistic ideas and collaborations can emerge. The artists arriving in Prosperpolder bring different practices and perspectives, but for one week they will share the same paths, landscapes and questions—continuing a conversation that began in Delphi ten years ago and is still unfolding today.