Periferico is Collettivo Amigdala‘s festival of site-specific and community-based artistic practices, active in Modena since 2008. Not a container for shows, but a situated research practice that brings together artists, communities, and specific places across the city.
Working with public space raises a question we keep coming back to: is this art in public space, or art as public space — a temporary exercise in shared use, negotiation, and democracy? Public space is never neutral ground: it is claimed, contested, and unevenly accessible, and inhabiting it artistically means taking on that friction rather than smoothing it over.
In this WALC Café, guest artists Elisabetta Consonni and Cardellini Gonzalez (Igor Cardellini and Tomas Gonzalez), both part of the festival’s 2026 edition, join Amigdala’s curatorial perspective to discuss what it means to work — and take a position — in public and urban space, between site-specific practices, local communities, and the conflicts these encounters inevitably bring.
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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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