Block 3 (Sessions 7–9): Walking as Critical Spatial Practice
Session 7 – Walking and Gender
Katerina Pistola — Saturday Aprll 18
With Colletivo Amigdala; Federica Rocchi (Italy)
This session explores how gender shapes walking, space and artistic expression. Through feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives, participants examine walking as a strategy of resistance, visibility and empowerment. Case studies consider safety, mobility, representation and voice. Participants design a gender-conscious walking micro-project, developing methods of documenting gendered experience through sound, movement and storytelling.
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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