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Visual March to Prespes: walking with concepts and images
Our interactive, one-day seminar on The Visual March to Prespes: Walking with concepts and images will be held on Friday the 9th of January 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00 in the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET) and streamed online. The Visual March to Prespes is a process that is taking place in the Prespes area
• The Blue Parade (what the body knows)
The Blue Parade is a participatory walking artwork created by Stefaan van Biesen and Annemie Mestdagh for the “Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies” meeting in Prespes, Greece. The piece consists of a portable, ultramarine-blue textile structure carried collectively through the landscape as a “nomadic library.” Participants walk together, collect small objects from the environment, and place them in attached PET bottles, creating a mobile archive of local memory and identity. The act of carrying the canvas fosters awareness, cooperation, and a temporary community, turning the walk into a sensory, reflective ritual that highlights embodied knowledge, shared experience, and themes of journey and displacement.
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Visual March to Prespes: walking with concepts and images
Our interactive, one-day seminar on The Visual March to Prespes: Walking with concepts and images will be held on Friday the 9th of January 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00 in the Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET) and streamed online. The Visual March to Prespes is a process that is taking place in the Prespes area
• The Blue Parade (what the body knows)
The Blue Parade is a participatory walking artwork created by Stefaan van Biesen and Annemie Mestdagh for the “Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies” meeting in Prespes, Greece. The piece consists of a portable, ultramarine-blue textile structure carried collectively through the landscape as a “nomadic library.” Participants walk together, collect small objects from the environment, and place them in attached PET bottles, creating a mobile archive of local memory and identity. The act of carrying the canvas fosters awareness, cooperation, and a temporary community, turning the walk into a sensory, reflective ritual that highlights embodied knowledge, shared experience, and themes of journey and displacement.
This commission for Depot Erbe considers the paths and journeys that the citizens of Freiburg take on a daily basis. Drawing on the pieces that we have made for Birmingham and Leuven, we have this time also included extra video footage shot on location with the animation of the journeys recorded with GPSs and interview material reflecting on the participants daily movements.
Specifically we were interested in how participants see their commutes and daily actions in terms of feeling constrained or free in terms of their movement, whether they can consider the journeys as a dance and how do they feel about the other traces they are leaving on a daily basis. Ultimately the abstraction of GPS traces are given life and longevity through the stories and reflections that are made about them: conjuring the immaterial data into tangible places of the everyday – in all its banality and profundity.
The film opened at the Museum für Neue Kunst on 25th March and ran until 1st May 2017.
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