Confluences
WALC Confluence 10 Walking with a Cello and other stories
Do you want to know how our 2025 adventure went? How we set off from Badalona and crossed beaches, mountains, and rivers on our way to the Pyrenees — and climbed the Taga with a cello? Do you want to hear about our shared library, lovingly cared for by an artist? Marc Caellas, Christina Schulz
WALC Confluence 7 – in loving memory
Video recording of a Confluence introduced by Geert Vermeire, one of WALC’s co-artistic coordinators. The event came live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities
Documenting walking art – WALC Confluence 6 hosted by Clara Gari with guest Ernesto Pujol
How do you document Walking art? Asks your host, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea. For some artists documenting their work is a process of making a further an artwork in itself, for others the walk is the document. What resources and strategies best capture the experience and creation of the artist: travel journals, photographs, drawings, sound recordings,
WALC Confluence 5 Anna Luyten hosts Jef Declercq & Koi Persyn from Publiek Park
Anna Luyten introduces the Belgian nomadic contemporary art project Publiek Park, which explores public city parks and gardens as its exhibition grounds. The project invites both international and local artists to create artworks that draw inspiration from the surroundings in a site-sensitive manner. Walking is employed as a curatorial methodology to discover the parks with
WALC Confluence 4 hosted by Nau Côclea – featuring the Grand Tour, the year we entered Barcelona
The impact of the Grand Tour 2024 goes far beyond what its participants bring or create on the way, as it inspires and is inspired by local communities and the landscape through which it passes. Grand Tour is an experience of walking, of living together and of contact with local people, in which Art has
WALC Confluence 3 hosted by Gigacircus, with guest Gustavo Alvarez
Part funded by the EU Create Europe Programme, this Confluence event was hosted by Gigacircus, the French partner in the Walking Arts & Local Communities project known as WALC. They chose their guest as Mexican performance artist Gustavo Gonzales, who in the video provides a presention to his extensive portfolio of actions undertaken in the
Confluence 1 hosted by Gigacircus with guest Mohamed-Nour Wana
The first 30 minutes of these hour-long online events, will be presentations and discussion between the WALC partners. The second 30 minutes provides an opportunity of the Confluence host partner to invite a walking artist to present their work. WALC Confluence 1 is hosted by Sylvie Marchand (FR) and Fred Adam (FR/ES) of GigaCircus, and
