Join us for a WALC Café conversation in two parts. The first half features a 30-minute conversation with multidisciplinary artist Claudia Urrutia Salinas.
Born in Antofagasta, Chile, and now based in France, Claudia’s work moves between performance, theatre, singing, visual arts and artistic transmission. Through poetic actions, symbolic objects, voice and movement, she explores themes of exile, migration, identity, women’s rights and social justice.
In conversation with Sylvie Marchand, Claudia will reflect on how experiences of displacement and re-rooting have shaped her creative practice, and on the role of walking as both a performative act and a way of engaging with landscape, memory and community.
In the second half, the conversation expands to include Fred Adam (France/Spain), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexico), Ridha Dhib (France) and Geert Vermeire, with Annemarie Lopez as participating moderator.
By approaching walking as an artistic gesture, we will explore how artists in motion can connect across geographical distance. What does co-presence at a distance create? What new artistic possibilities might it open?
A conversation about art beyond disciplines, walking as creation, and the power of transmission.
Nous marchons avec Claudia Urrutia
Rejoignez-nous pour un WALC Café en deux temps.
La première partie prendra la forme d’une conversation de 30 minutes avec l’artiste pluridisciplinaire Claudia Urrutia Salinas.
Née à Antofagasta, au Chili, et aujourd’hui installée en France, Claudia développe une pratique à la croisée de la performance, du théâtre, du chant, des arts visuels et de la transmission artistique. À travers des actions poétiques, des objets symboliques, la voix et le mouvement, elle explore les thèmes de l’exil, de la migration, de l’identité, des droits des femmes et de la justice sociale.
En conversation avec Sylvie Marchand, Claudia reviendra sur la manière dont les expériences du déplacement et du réenracinement ont façonné sa pratique artistique, ainsi que sur le rôle de la marche, à la fois comme acte performatif et comme moyen d’entrer en relation avec le paysage, la mémoire et la communauté.
Dans la seconde partie, la conversation s’élargira à Fred Adam (France/Espagne), Gustavo Alvarez (Mexique), Ridha Dhib (France) et Geert Vermeire. Annemarie Lopez animera la discussion tout en prenant part aux échanges.
En faisant de la marche un geste artistique, nous explorerons comment des artistes en mouvement peuvent entrer en relation par-delà la distance géographique. Que produit la coprésence à distance ? Quelles nouvelles possibilités artistiques ouvre-t-elle ?
Une conversation autour de l’art par-delà les disciplines, de la marche comme forme de création et du pouvoir de la transmission.
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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.
