Footnotes presents an interdisciplinary one-day symposium which explores the fruitful intersections of walking art practices, performative rituals and embodied technologies. It marks a meeting of critical reflections following Ridha Dhib’s arrival in Nafplio as part of his long-duration walking performance Mnemosyne (July-Nov 2026) from France to Greece. Mnemosyne is a cardio-cartographic walking performance combining biometric data, GPS, and proof-of-presence protocols. The event is being organised and curated by the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese (Greece) – and it will take place in a hybrid format (in person and online). Aiming at bringing together artists, academics, philosophers and creative practitioners, Footnotes symposium offers a space to reflect on the transdisciplinary character of walking as aesthetic, performative, ritualistic and technopoetic process which brings together body, landscape, embodied media and more-than-human worlds. It intends to reflect on wider processes of walking, mapping, drifting, writing, recording into place and across landscapes.
Guest speakers include:
Ridha Dhib (artist)
Ann de Forest (writer)
Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen – anthropologist)
Annemarie Lopez (writer, curator walk · listen · create)
Bill Psarras (University of the Peloponnese, Greece – artist / researcher),
Athena Stourna (University of the Peloponnese, Greece – artist / researcher)
Geert Vermeire (Co-founder of walk · listen · create, Made of Walking – curator, poet / artist)
Lori Waxman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago – art critic),
Yiannis Ziogas (University of Western Macedonia – artist / researcher)
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