On May 2, 2025, UOWM held the first info session for WAC25 participants, sharing details on transport, accommodation, and navigation around Lake Prespa.

Video recording of a Confluence introduced by Geert Vermeire, one of WALC’s co-artistic coordinators. The event came live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities

Migrating Voices (work in progress) , a polyphonic, immersive, connected device by Gigacircus art collective in the conext of the EU project WALC. Visit https://gigacircus.net/walc for more information.

Video recording of Walking Home / Walking in Transition the theme set for the next International Walking Arts Encounters in Prespa (WAC 25).  This WALC Café offers a closer look at what you can expect in July 2025 and zooms in on its themes, context, place, the call criteria and what is offered to interested participants. The Prespa International

How do you document Walking art? Asks your host, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea. For some artists documenting their work is a process of making a further an artwork in itself, for others the walk is the document. What resources and strategies best capture the experience and creation of the artist: travel journals, photographs, drawings, sound recordings,

Video recording of a Walking Arts & Local Communities Café, in which architect Stavros Sofianopoulos presents “Building the Chiapas Teachers Center” an initiative by the Greek Solidarity Team of support for the Zapatistas’ campaign “A School for Chiapas” [Centro de Capacitación  de Promotores Culturales Compañero Manuel (Chiapas, Mexico)]. The initiative is presented in the context of Community

Anna Luyten introduces the Belgian nomadic contemporary art project Publiek Park, which explores public city parks and gardens as its exhibition grounds. The project invites both international and local artists to create artworks that draw inspiration from the surroundings in a site-sensitive manner. Walking is employed as a curatorial methodology to discover the parks with

Launching a new international series ‘Anna and the Verwandelingen’, a sequel to the successful editions of ‘Anna and the Field Reports’, before a live audience at the School of Gaasbeek in Belgium,  Anna Luyten chatted with historian, painter, performer, writer, pianist, doctor of arts, collector and walker Koen Broucke.  Koen walks lead him to unexpected encounters

The impact of the Grand Tour 2024 goes far beyond what its participants bring or create on the way, as it inspires and is inspired by local communities and the landscape through which it passes. Grand Tour is an experience of walking, of living together and of contact with local people, in which Art has

WALC Residence 2 at the Gigacircus Collective Lab – an interactive audiovisual “Bivouac” metaspace beyond borders.

The Opening Seminar (Sept 17, 2024) included talks by key curators and artists, followed by a roundtable with WALC partners. Yannis Ziogas and Geert Vermeire invited organizations and artists to participate in the WALC project.

Video recording of a WALC Café hosted by Clare Qualmann with guest Eléonore Ozanne discussing Women walking, The city, At night. A performance series in the form of collective walks between women. It was began by Eléonore Ozanne in Seville, Spain in September 2022 on the night of the ‘Harvest Moon’, and has subsequently taken

Part funded by the EU Create Europe Programme, this Confluence event was hosted by Gigacircus, the French partner in the Walking Arts & Local Communities project known as WALC. They chose their guest as Mexican performance artist Gustavo Gonzales, who in the video provides a presention to his extensive portfolio of actions undertaken in the

Video recording: We have invited Igor Binsbergen, soundwalker who believes that “Listening” (compared to “Seeing”) is a neglected child in our culture but strangely more powerful in many ways, and Laroche (aka Luce Choules), an itinerant artist founder and coordinator of the international artists’ network the Temporal School of Experimental Geography whose practice involves moving over and through places, to inspire us

An interactive metaverse installation by gigacircus Art collective in the context of the WALC project.

Video recording of a Confluence progress meeting for the EU funded Walking Arts & Local Communities project

The first 30 minutes of these hour-long online events, will be presentations and discussion between the WALC partners. The second 30 minutes provides an opportunity of the Confluence host partner to invite a walking artist to present their work. WALC Confluence 1 is hosted by Sylvie Marchand (FR) and Fred Adam (FR/ES) of GigaCircus, and

Video recording of an on-the-ground and online café from The Walking Body 5. The Walking Body 5 brings 9 international artists together, with the collaboration and involvement of EAAD and schools in Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Spain (University of Murcia). Each artist has their own connection with walking in a more than human

Video recording of inaugural online event for Walking Arts & Local Communities co-funded by the EU. Includes presentations by  Yannis Ziogas, Geert Vermeire, Clara Gari, Anna Luyten, Sylvie Marchand, Miguel Bandeira Duarte and Kostas Diamantis Balaskas.