Walking through places generates mental images we carry with us: glimpses of where we were and what we did. But can we be sure of that? Think of the image you carry of a place you’ve walked: its colours, how it unfolded, its texture, its sound. Always slipping, always being remade, but it’s perhaps in this very impossibility of holding it still that the poetics of walking lies. For almost 20 years, artist Yannis Ziogas has curated Visual Marches to Prespes, a nomadic project re-exploring the area tri-bordering Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. Here, walking art goes beyond the object to become ‘a locus in which places, ideas and images’ come alive through the embodied experience of walkers. This contribution looks back at photographs gathered along this journey, and on how they resist fixity; never settled, never still, always in the process of finding their form.

That maybe a Sufi quote about dervishes, the whirling kind, of which I read about in To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova: “A precept of dervishism is renouncing possessions, surrendering to the Road.” The subtitle of her book is “A Journey of War and Peace” and, as she writes of her travels along the shores

It was around five in the morning on the shores of Lake Prespa in Northern Greece when I first encountered Ridha Dhib: a figure moving slowly along the water’s edge, a walking stick in hand, conversing with a strange, synthetic voice coming from a small red speaker clipped to his hip. The lake was still,

During the first two editions of Made Of Walking by The Milena principle (2015 and 2016, Delphi, Greece), we had the opportunity to meet two remarkable walking artists: the Dutch artist Ienke Kastelein and the Greek artist Katerina Drakopoulou. Through numerous international projects, their artistic practices have become widely recognized within the field of walking

In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking

Source: Wild Thyme and Honey: Walking in Prespa | Caught by the River | Caught by the River

Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries Source: Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism | Greece holidays | The Guardian

The Prespa International Walking Arts Encounters 2025 Walking Home - Walking in Transition is this year’s culmination of a process that started in 2007. In that year several artists, scholars, and academics walked from Florina to Prespa in a walking process named Visual March to Prespes of 50 km that aimed to initiation of a process of discovery of the place, the community, and of ourselves

‘Homewards’ is a Walking Home / Walking in Transition walkshop proposal for the International Walking Arts Encounters in Psarades, Prespa, Greece in July 2025 This walkshop asks where and what is home. It acknowledges that we may have to walk a long way before we find somewhere to settle, and that although the building may … Continue reading Walking Home

Between October 25 and 27, 2024, the WALC partners came together in Gaasbeek, Belgium, not too far from the capital Brussels.

As part of the release of the hardcover/e-book release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 19th interview in […]

This event is part of Walking as a Question, International Walking Arts Encounters Conference held in Prespa, Northern Greece 4-17 July.Because I cannot attend in person, I am part of the Edinburgh Hub and the event is online.There is a short introduct...

I’m presenting an audio paper at this conference – a remote activity, so sadly I will not be travelling to northern Greece. The conference paper is available here https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/walking-contencion-island/ What is an audio paper? – good question, and this is … Continue reading →

The book with all actions and papers of the Walking Arts Encounters/Conference (WAC) 2019 is now available in a printed and a digital format. The publication is in full color, with hundreds of photographs, hundreds of written contributions from all over the world, and 567 pages.