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This performance is an embodied walk of approximately 55 km, made in two stages: from Florina to Antartiko, and from Antartiko to Prespa. It serves as the poetic threshold to my main performance, A Line to Cross, A Voice to Follow, presented at the International Walking Arts Encounters (WAC 25).
It is rooted in my 2022 performance, Ex-tracés, as an inverted reactivation of a key stage of that epic walk.
The Protocol: The Dual Capture of the Living
During the walk, I implement a protocol of dual sensory capture:
The Skin of the World (External Capture): The device is a Monarch butterfly cut from a special double-sided adhesive paper. Fixed on my clothing, it acts as a passive sensor that collects the invisible particles of the landscape.
The Pulse of the Path (Internal Capture): In parallel, I perform a continuous digital capture of my heart rate. The kilometer is hereby abolished in favor of the pulse of the living. I am no longer measuring distance, but the intensity of the path.
The Trace: A Two-Faced Memory
Upon my arrival in Prespa, this performative gesture produces two distinct relics: the butterfly itself, carrying the memory of the landscape, and the final record of thousands of heartbeats, a digital archive that quantifies the emotional and organic cost of the walk.
Credits
This walking piece was created as an embodied introduction to my participation in the International Prespa Walking Arts Encounters (WAC25).
The performance was developed within the framework of the WALC (Walking Arts & Local Communities) project, hosted by the University of Western Macedonia.
WALC is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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