22 stops: Doel is part of 22 stops, an ongoing durational walking project by Katerina Drakopoulou, developed across different cities, landscapes and public sites since 2016. The project is structured as a walking performance made of twenty-two stops: at each stop, the body enters into relation with a specific site through stillness, slowness, micro-movement, sculptural image and embodied attention. Each location is marked by a chalk number on the ground, creating a temporary map of presence, memory and place.

Each iteration follows this structure, but is composed anew in response to the textures, surfaces, atmospheres, histories and social rhythms of the place where it unfolds. This version is created specifically for Doel and will not be shown elsewhere in this form.

Returning to Made of Walking almost exactly ten years after participating in its first edition in Delphi, Katerina brings 22 Stops into a new collective chapter, where movement, attention and place become inseparable elements of a living artistic experience.

Participants will gain a heightened, unhurried attentiveness to Doel’s visible and half-visible layers, textures and thresholds as light changes, while encountering simple embodied tools for experiencing place with movement, imagination and shared presence.

The performative walk can be attended independently, but participants are warmly invited to join the preceding programme:

17:00 – De Doolen, Food Forest and Community Visit
Guided visit to the community garden and food forest.
18:00 – Lecture
Nature, Environment and Sustainability by Isolde Vandemoortele (Avansa Centraal Vlaanderen, Belgium).
19:00 – Community Gathering
Pancake gathering hosted by De Doolen and the local Chiro youth group.