The International Analogio Festival
In the New Media Dialogue program of the International Analogio Festival, you can walk and listen with texts and sounds, wherever you are in the world. In Athens, where the physical festival is held, or online -with your mobile device, where you live.
Artists, writers and thinkers around the world were invited to create a text for walking or a sound walk, resulting in works from Australia, Panama, Canada, US, Belarus, Italy, UK, Cyprus and Greece, inspired by the concept of audio papers, an innovative form of new media based texts for on the move and with a performative element.
A co-production with WAC 2021, during Sound Walk September 2021.
New Media Dialogue program is curated by Geert Vermeire.
Political Soundwalks: listening to the political protests in Minsk, Belarus
Political Soundwalks is an audio archive of field recordings from protests, rallies, and cultural resistance events in Minsk during the 2020-2021 Belarusian political unrest. These recordings document how sound was used by protesters and state forces to contest urban and political space amid severe risks, including arrest and violence.
To commemorate, to remember, to imagine. Research notes on walking as a methodology in Québec
Commemorative walk, Memorial walk, Jane’s walk. These are all forms of walking that lead to the act of remembering. The idea of such a walk is to be able to discover a place in situ, and to grasp, in the effort of imagination summoned by the narrative, the events that took place in the past.
Performing memory in familiar places
This audio paper explores the author's repeated visits to their grandparents' villages near Prespes, using walking as a method to reconstruct family memories tied to historical migrations and trauma following the Greek Civil War. It considers the landscape as both a stimulus and archive of memory, blending personal narrative with cultural history through embodied spatial experience.
Ted The Mole in the Touristed City
Before listening to it, please choose a place in your city that has been recently modified for the worse, becoming less human friendly and more hostile in its spatial design and architecture: here, there should start your audio walking experience.
Linaceae
This short fiction explores the city of Brighton through the perspective of a neuroqueer person with PTSD, who perceives people and spaces as associative colours. The narrative is paired with a soundscape recorded during a walk around Brighton and Hove, with an accessible version available without sound for those with sensory sensitivities.
Walking Contención Island
This project documents a series of walks undertaken during the three Covid-19 lockdowns, creating an imaginary island called Contención Island through mapped routes, chance-determined shorelines, and sound recordings. It explores themes of embodied walking, the nature of borders, and the symbolic resonance of the island within urban and ecological contexts.
Left Foot, Right Foot
Yiannis Christidis and Efi Kyprianidou's experimental digital media project investigates how the repetitive bodily act of walking fosters mind-wandering and focused reasoning. Drawing on Charles Bukowski’s *White Dog*, the work explores walking's role in mental flow states that redirect attention outward or facilitate self-reflection, with implications supported by recent psychological and neuroscientific studies.
Soundwalk: “Aquí habita un río” (A river lives here)
This post explores the relationship between Panama City and its urban waterways through a multisensorial soundwalk along the six-kilometer Matasnillo River, the most polluted in the area. It offers an open letter reflecting on what the river reveals about the environment and human connection from its source to the ocean.
Where am I? A dislocated soundwalk
Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we there, lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places? This playful and dream-like soundwalk aims to throw these questions into confusion. It can be taken while in Prespa or anywhere else, including indoors.
