In this online café, we brought together four artists and practitioners working at the intersection of walking, health, and care to explore how walking is shaped by lived physical conditions. Rather than focusing on walking as an individual ability, we ask how walking becomes a practice of adaptation, resilience, negotiation, and relational care.
Through artistic practices, participatory projects, and lived experience research, our speakers will share how walking can be redefined when the body does not align with dominant norms of speed, independence, or productivity — and how walking arts can open space for different ways of moving.
Guests for this event are Genevieve Rudd (UK), Pam Patterson (CAN), Leena Raudvee (CAN) and Katerina Pistola (GK)
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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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