In the meetings of the “7 plus 7 Places to Walk” – A 2 year laboratory of Ideas – all artists who participated or were present in WAC Encounters 2025 will have the chance to further discuss everything that took place in Prespa these 7 days, from June 30th to July 6th, 2025, and ruminate on the vision this process put into practice and the manifestos it created. The meetings take place every three months, the period from July 2025 to September 2026.
In this third meeting (in two parts) Yannis Ziogas presented another one of the Walking with children walkshops but also a grouping of seven walking processes that transported us back to the alleyways and the open spaces of Psarades, offering us an opportunity to reflect upon their relationship to the village’s landscape and reality. During the next part we focused on one more cases out of the seven that make our 7 + 7 Places project. This site is a personal landmark chosen by people who live or who have created artworks in Prespes and who propose them, due to their respective significance, as meeting points for the processes that will take place in 2027. WALC 25 Artists: Aimilia Siafarika, Iro Grigoriadou: It takes a village to walk you home. Ridha Dhib: Ex-tracés: A Walk Between Borders and Memory. Soazic Guezennec: Becoming landscape, a series of performative walks. Irini Kalogeropoulou: (In)Audible Bodies Alisa Oleva: Walking as Home-finding Anastasia Polychronidou: Echoes of Footsteps Athanasia Tziona, Konstantinos Zervas: Walking with Children: Following human and bear trace and developing empathy for wildlife. 7 + 7 places: Vaggelis Karagiannis: cobblestone or trails
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.
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