Block 2 (Sessions 4–6): Walking as Shared World-Making
Session 4 – Walking the World / Marcher le Tout-Monde: Mobility, Anthropology, and Artistic Practice
Sylvie Marchand — Saturday March 28
This session reflects on walking across cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Through films and field-based artworks, Sylvie Marchand presents her ethnographic and artistic approach shaped by the movements of the communities she works with. Themes include subsistence mobilities (Circassian nomadism, Mongolian pastoralism), spiritual mobilities (Raramuri rituals, pilgrimage to Compostela), and contemporary mondiality through walking and migration in Europe and Central America.
Participation only by course registration
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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