This presentation reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and derives meaning from a place through performative, poetic, and technological practices. The presentation frames walking as an expanded site-specific performance that brings related processes (drifting, transmitting, writing) in dialogue with technologies, inviting an open dialogue on what it means to be “in movement” today.
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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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