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 that he has walked over the last 18 months. ‘Hidden in plain sight’, whether you see it as criminal damage or as an ingenious art installation, Babak has left his mark on countless benches.
Babak’s exhibition will be opening in time for The Walking Body 6, that like this Confluence, is hosted by the Portuguese WALC partners from the University of Minho.
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).
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