Athens
Highlights
Crossing the Limits Prespa / Grammos / Mytilene / Thermi / Sikinos / Marousi / Athens The 138 kilometers of Limits
For over four months I walked 138 kilometers in five different sites in Greece in an effort to discover the Greek Landscape in its totality and redefine it.
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.
Species-in-between
This project presents a simultaneous sound walk in the National Garden of Athens paired with an online map exploring embodied cognition through art and action, featuring texts by Will Kymlicka, Sue Donaldson, and others inspired by *Zoopolis*. Developed by the Research Group on Art and Embodied Cognition and accessible via CGeomap, the walk was part of the Analogio Festiva at the 48th Book Festival of Athens 2019.
A walk with Kazantzakis
A performative soundwalk in Athens featured actors interpreting Kazantzakis' *Report to Greco*, carrying traces of sand through the historic city while walkers used Bluetooth speakers triggered by specific locations. Directed by Geert Vermeire and Sissy Papathanassiou, the experience combined live performance with soundscapes by Stefaan van Biesen to evoke the world and time of El Greco.
Urban Emptiness: sound walks in Limassol
Urban Emptiness was an interdisciplinary sound walk project in Limassol, Cyprus, exploring urban soundscapes, silence, and emptiness through workshops using locative media tools to create site-specific geolocated narratives. The project involved artists, researchers, and students from multiple international institutions and resulted in a series of mobile device sound walks presented publicly in Limassol.
Resounding Cities (Athens, Lisbon, Brussels)
Resounding Cities was a collaborative project examining urban rituals through workshops in Athens, Brussels, and Lisbon, resulting in sound maps and sound walks. The project involved international contributions and culminated in an interactive audiovisual map and a collective sound walk presented at the 2015 Athens Science Festival.
Listening to the other
"Listening to each other / Einander zuhören – Stadt – (Ge)Schichten was a collaborative sound project conducted simultaneously in Athens, Dresden, and Essen, involving researchers, sound artists, and collectives to explore the relationship between residents and their sonic environment. Using the open-source locative media platform noTours, the project created acoustic cartographies through soundwalks and sound maps, resulting in over 600 recordings and ten soundwalk areas in Athens that offer interactive, non-linear auditory experiences challenging conventional visual urban models."
Continuing the journey of the Tortoise and the spider
In 2017, Ros Bandt and Geert Vermeire created "The Tortoise and the Spider," a collaborative sound walk performance involving dancers connected by strings and portable speakers, forming a giant illuminated human harp played during a night walk starting at Parnassos Mountain in Delphi, Greece. The project's instruments traveled globally for performances integrating locative media, with the collaboration continuing through 2019 in locations including Athens, Vienna, and Melbourne.
Articles elsewhere
Art and walking – a book extract
Nyla Naseer is an author and walker based in King's Heath, Birmingham. During lockdown she wrote a book to celebrate walking. 'At Walking Pace' was published last month, is easy to read, well researched and has one of the most pleasing book covers of all the walking books! Nyla's book is all about how walking […]
