Where in Guimarães do you experience a sense of freedom and what makes it possible? We will share, discuss, and map responses together. Expanding from a collection of prepared references, the group will then produce written “footnotes to freedom”: fragments, quotes, scores, drawings and noted observations that emerge from the conversation.
Footnotes to Freedom is a three-part workshop series that explores how experiences of freedom are located, felt, and expressed in the city of Guimarães. Combining mapping, conversation, clay work, and the collective production of a performative walk, this workshop transforms reflections on freedom into a shared public gesture. Participants are invited to reflect on where and how they experience freedom in urban space and how these moments connect to broader questions of access in public space.
ReRouting is a curatorial platform that began in 2022 from a series of walk propositions as an outcome of research into the potential of walking together as a curatorial space. Since then, it has evolved into a shapeshifting framework to host in-motion, multidisciplinary artistic projects. Based in Berlin, ReRouting is rooted locally whilst also collaborating internationally.
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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