Swiss artist Simone Etter invites participants to experience Nightwalk: Walking in Lessness, a participatory walking performance exploring perception, darkness and presence.

Rooted in process, relationships and site-responsive practice, Simone Etter develops artistic interventions that emerge through close observation and dialogue with place. For Prosperpolder, she draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s Lessness (1970) and Lucius Burckhardt’s notion of the “smallest possible intervention,” approaching reduction not as deprivation but as a condition through which other realities become perceptible.

Prosperpolder is a landscape of overlapping worlds: agriculture and ecology, borders and ports, reclaimed land and tidal wetlands, local histories and global flows. Rather than explaining these layers, Nightwalk invites participants to encounter them through another mode of attention.

Walking around midnight, participants temporarily step outside the economy of visibility, productivity and constant connectivity. In the darkness, familiar routines dissolve, bodies become less legible, and attention gradually shifts towards what usually remains unnoticed. The walk proposes darkness as a space of listening, imagination and shared presence, asking how lessness might open new ways of relating to place, to others and to ourselves.

Rather than offering a predetermined narrative, Nightwalk: Walking in Lessness unfolds as an evolving dialogue with the landscape and those who walk it, creating space for chance encounters, quiet observation and collective reflection.

Simone Etter collaborates with young people from the local youth movement Chriso to create a participatory night walk transforming everyday landscapes into spaces of imagination.