A participatory night-walk/poem inspired by the rare electric illuminations of the atmosphere.

A program within WALC25, curated by Clare Qualmann, Clementine Butler-Gallie & Athanasia Tziona. It created playful, intergenerational encounters with children, connecting local communities and affirming children as equal participants in walking art.

People have long observed animals for signs of threatening hazards or evidence of impending environmental threats. These species, called sentinel species, are of great importance not only in “perceiving and bringing” the first signs and symptoms of the “climate crisis”, but also in “anticipating” it as sentinels. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Sentinel Species Walking Encounter reverses the sentinel roles of humans and birds. Humans will enact the role of sentinels for the endangered bird species living in the area. Choosing Prespa as a location for the proposed Performance/Installation is no coincidence as Prespa is an environmentally protected area.

Telegraph (Prespa) is a video artwork created through a global participatory project during the International Walking Arts Encounters 2021, led by artists Christopher Kaczmarek and Deirdre Macleod. The project involved participants from Prespa, Greece, and worldwide exchanging walks and gestures via video and written prompts, resulting in a collective composition that connects local and remote spaces through shared walking experiences.

This post examines Edward Lear's 1848 journey through the Prespa basin during Ottoman rule, highlighting his use of walking exploration to document landscapes and urban environments through paintings and sketches. It situates Lear's work within 19th-century Romanticism and presents his travelogue as an early form of walking art that contributes to aesthetic and historical understanding of the region.

This audio paper presents the Shadow-walks project, where the author collaborates with local inhabitants worldwide to document meaningful, repeated walks through recorded conversations and improvised vocalizations. The project explores how repeated walking imprints traces on places, making personal narratives and communal memories audible, with adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic including remote interpretations of these walks.