‘In Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, you have climbed up with the protagonist and look over his shoulder at the road travelled’.
Descriptions about artists and their work are frequently presented as a metaphor of a walk. And even viewing works of art, walking through a museum or gallery, can be seen as a walk that you physically exercise yourself.
Painters work with paint, sculptors with stone or bronze, and these days digital media are widely used. But there are also artists who see walking as ‘material’ for their artwork. And can a walk be the work of art itself at the same time?
During the Afternoon on 13 October, you can meet the various artists and walk with them in various ways. Engage in conversation and ‘walk’ into the artist’s work and mind. Or learn how a walk turns into a book and thus becomes a physical object. And you can also actually go out and take a physical walk with the artist!
Artists present are Liesje van den Berk, Marleen Kappe, ienke kastelein, Roelant Meijer and Uwe Poth.
The walks you can participate in and the various presentations you can attend are coordinated in terms of time and duration. Thus, as a visitor, you can participate in several activities on that afternoon.
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Bill Psarras
Bill Psarras (b. 1985) is an artist and academic exploring poetics across different media. He is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese, at the intersections of site/performance art, video installations and digital media. His art practice merges the poetic and the technological; often through site/walking performances, installations, video art/digital art; having city, poetry, flanerie and sea/water as emerging geopoetics in his art. As an artist for 2020/21, Bill received the ARTWORKS Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award. His artworks have been exhibited in international festivals, group exhibitions (i.e. Onassis Foundation, MOMus, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, FILE , Athens Digital Arts Festival, VIDEOFORMES International Festival, WPA Media, Film and Video Poetry Society, Ονειρεύονται τα Ηλεκτρικά Πρόβατα 2024, ROOMS2013, OutTopias Benaki Museum, Nice!, Video Art Miden, Matera Festival, CICA Museum of Art, FONLAD, Cadence Video Poetry, International Forum of Performance Art 2023, Bari International Art Expo Festival 2014, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2010) and cultural institutions across Europe, US and Asia.

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