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Blind walk/White walk

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Athens, Greece
60 minutes

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Walking piece
Blind Walk / White Walk is a bilingual (Greek/English) sound and live performance walk in Athens inspired by José Saramago's novel Blindness and the blind prophet Tiresias from Homer’s poetry. The route, between Theater Technis in Plaka and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis, features immersive sound triggered via mobile devices alongside live actors, with contributions from Geert Vermeire, Stefaan van Biesen, and others.

Blind walk / White walk invites you to follow the steps of blind walkers, inspired by the novel Blindness of José Saramago and the blind prophet Tiresias in the poetry of Homer.
This bilingual (Greek/English) walk in Athens combines sound immersion, triggered by your mobile device, with live performances – between the contemporary Theater Technis in Plaka and the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, along the road towards the Acropolis.

Live actors and voices: Jenny Dagla, Polyxeni Thanou, Charis Symeonidou, Yiannis Tsaparegas, Nikolaos Georges Chaldeakis
Sound walk design / field recordings: Geert Vermeire
Compositions: Stefaan van Biesen
English texts read by Rosa Prodromou.

Blind Walk/White walk Homer and Saramago is a concept by Simona Vermeire, coordinated/directed by Geert Vermeire and by Sissy Papathanassiou

A collaboration between the Milena principle and Analogio Festival

A production by the Analogio Festival 2016
With the institutional support of the José Saramago Foundation, Lisbon.

Live performance, Sunday October, 2nd at 12 am, 2016.
Soundwalk made with / available on Echoes.

APA style reference

Vermeire, G. (2016). Blind walk/White walk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/blind-walk-white-walk/

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One who carries a heavy bag for another who is intent on spoiling a walk.

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