walk · listen · create hosts walk · listen · café, at least once a month online meeting for creatives in the fields of walking and sound art. Every ‘café’ lasts between 1 and 2 hours, is headed by an expert introducing a particular topic, and followed by an open discussion on the topic at hand.
Online meetings are hosted through BlueJeans or similar. Participants will be sent the meeting URL shortly before the event kicks off.
Eco-activism conjures many different forms of social action, from political protest to verge gardening to swap meets. Although the phrase ‘the personal is political’ was part of the 2nd wave feminist discourse of the 1970s, it is a phrase which, like ‘ think global, act local’ has the potential to help us frame our COVID-19 lives.
Can we now decide to act in ways that align with the earth? As walkers, what are some of the actions we can take to amplify messages about caring for the earth and its creatures? Can COVID-19 help achieve positive environmental goals – e.g. development of local organic gardens, communities of support or just an increased awareness of our own local ecosystems? How can we take this moment of COVID-19 as an opportunity to shape a future where we see ourselves as part of the ecosystem, not in control of it.
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Remote togetherness – reflections on Prespes and walking in situ
This paper builds on previous work from Prespes 2019, combining memories of walking the land with reflections on COVID-19’s impact on mobility. It explores themes of contested territory, deep listening, and ancestral connections through a performative audio format that integrates poetic, theoretical, and meditative elements.
Libraries as Gardens – sound walk in Athens
The National Garden of Athens hosts an interactive audio project featuring global participants sharing stories and readings about their favorite public gardens during the pandemic, accessible via a mobile webapp or desktop map. This evolving sound walk includes lockdown silence recordings and aims to create a geolocated audio archive of personal and public garden experiences before, during, and after COVID-19.
• Arts on the move
Can traveling be art? What is art that moves around? How nomadic is art today? Arts on the move looks into how walking, traveling and art intersect and interbreed. Insights about nomadic art practices are shared by Karen O'Rourke and Francesco Careri. This duo conversation is followed by a dialogue with eight traveling artists of the nomadic SCUB cultural collaboration project.
+3 Political topography
“Political Topography” calls to mind expressions such as “political landscape”, ;“political climate”, and “the lay of the land”. It suggests the way in which the language of nature is used metaphorically to characterize or analyze a current cultural or political state of affairs. Join us for a discussion with curator and activist Nina Felshin exploring this fascinating topic.
• My #Culture30Walks – How Culture 3.0 is your city?
Carola Boehm starts from the concept of Culture 3.0 to make some walks and document them in a few twitter threads. These #culture30 walks aim at making visible how places that have attended specifically to cultural policy almost unknowingly enhance the everyday creativity that one encounters on a simple 30 minute walk to work.
Listening to the Land – Pilgrimage for Nature
Organizer and creator of the walk Jolie Booth will share how Listening to the Land – Pilgrimage for Nature attempted to listen to the land and generate creative responses from doing so, but how it also changed her relationship with nature. She’s interested to know what you think it might mean to listen to the land and why such an activity might be of value to the future of our planet.
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