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| 16 May, 2026 Re-Opening Applications — WALC Online Course 2026 |
Attendees
This is the WALC Course community space/hub. Welcome!
- Share your projects and continue discussions beyond our weekly sessions.
- Be a part of the over 8000 creatives in the walk · listen · create (WLC) community.
- Present your artistic and walking practice.
- Discover a great variety of walking arts practices
- Access WALC Course video recordings and documentation.
To be listed as an attendee, create your profile page on WLC, here, then join the attendees pool by clicking on the link you will find on the WALC Course private page. You can as well add your work, here.
Interesting WLC events outside the WALC Course
WLC is continuously hosting interesting events. Check out the calendar. This includes a series of parallel online course events. Next one is with curators Clementine Butler-Gallie and Eirini Fountedaki, who will present the new publication Walk Notations, exploring walking as a method of being together in public space on April 15.
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
On WLC, this conference is maintained by: Fred Adam, Geert Vermeire, Babak Fakhamzadeh
WALC online course Session 2 – Walking as a form of art
A presentation by Aspasia Voudouri is followed by an introduction to the Australian Walking ArtistsFive invited artists from Australia talk about their work - Melinda Hunt, Megan Williams, Sepa Sama, Perdita Phillips, Bea Mowson and Molly Wagner.
• WALC Online course Session 4 : Walking the World / Marcher le Tout-Monde: Mobility, Anthropology, and Artistic Practice
This session reflects on walking across cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Through films and field-based artworks, Sylvie Marchand presents her ethnographic and artistic approach shaped by the movements of the communities she works with.
• WALC Online Course Session 7 – Walking and Gender
This session explores how gender shapes walking, space and artistic expression. Through feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives, participants examine walking as a strategy of resistance, visibility and empowerment.
• WALC Online Course Session 6 : Collective Memory Walk (Micro-Project)
The session introduces oral history, storytelling and “walking archives” as decolonial and sensory methods. Participants design and facilitate a Collective Memory Walk, engaging local people and generating material for the WALC toolkit.
• WALC Online Course Session 8 – Walking Art in Urban Environments
Walking is developed as a perceptual, critical and artistic method in the city. Through theories such as Strollology, psychogeography and ecological urbanism, participants examine how walking reveals the layers of urban space.
• Thinking in Motion
This talk introduces WALKING, a symposium exploring practices of walking as modes of perception, spatial inquiry, and collective reflection. Situated in relation to Lucius Burckhardt’s Spaziergangswissenschaft, WALKING brings together positions from landscape architecture, art, research, and curatorial practice to examine how environments are read, constructed, and contested through movement.
• Topogestures: Reflections on walking performance, poetry and technology
This presentation reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and derives meaning from
• Libraries as Gardens – sound walk in Athens
The National Garden of Athens hosts an interactive audio project featuring global participants sharing stories and readings about their favorite public gardens during the pandemic, accessible via a mobile webapp or desktop map. This evolving sound walk includes lockdown silence recordings and aims to create a geolocated audio archive of personal and public garden experiences before, during, and after COVID-19.
• Hythlodaeus / Utopia
The soundwalk “Hythlodaeus / Utopia” is a composition based on the poems “Unfolding the City” by Geert Vermeire and “Siren” by Stefaan van Biesen, incorporating field recordings made during walks in Venice and Antwerp. Created for the Cities and Memory project, the piece draws inspiration from Thomas More’s exploration of Utopia, combining voice, composition, and environmental sounds to form an immersive soundscape.
• Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk App guides users through a 4.6 km walk narrating Earth’s 4.6 billion-year evolutionary history using a scale where 1 metre equals 1 million years, highlighting humans’ brief existence and recent industrial impact. It integrates science and poetry, includes a mobility-assist mode, and connects walkers to environmental advocacy resources.
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