“Transient Luminous Events” is a participatory walking performance, drawing its essence from the rare and fleeting electric illuminations that shimmer in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Inspired by the vision of WAC 2025: Walking Home, Bill Psarras brought to Prespa his latest explorations in walking, transmission, and drifting poetics. The participatory performance sought to shape an ephemeral poetic encounter, where participants (fellow walkers) joined the artist in sending light into the night sky.

Using a compass and through Morse Code, they walked slowly and silently across an ambient green field in Psarades during dusk, where they transmitted via torches a personal word/sentence towards the unseen horizon where ‘home’ resides.

Each step became both a letter and a luminous gesture, an act of transmission across distance, a topo-poetic trace that meditates on presence and absence, transition and return.
This silent performance of light and movement was literally an ephemeral (20’) light intervention of multiple words towards all possible horizons, rendering walkers as fireflies, the action as a gathering of light near borders.

The signaling action explored poetics across different media, it highlighted the idea of home as an horizon everyone walks towards it. It touched on the liminal potential of processes: thinking, walking, writing, transmitting.