Program

Walkshops 1

presencial / onsite

9h30 – 11h30  venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

MAX FERNANDES  Escrita Direta – Oficina do Andar

In this participative workshop of Escrita Direta (creation method, which involves video, word, drawing, voice, landscape and body) we use three different pieces, which are distributed in the geographical area called “Bairro C”, in July 22, between 9:30 am and 11:30 am, meeting at IDEGUI, in Guimarães.
The workshop takes place at the location defined for each part, while the three parts are in operation at the same time. The structure is different in the three parts, both in the orientation given and in the action’s functionalities. Each piece is accompanied by a volunteer to guide workshop participants. The pieces consist of machines that are complemented by the participants’ cell phones, the text accompanying the piece, and the elements present in the landscape.
The workshop is open to the whole community and participation is free. One person at a time participates in each of the machines. But the same person can participate in the three workshops. In the end, participants are asked to share the videos produced in this workshop with the organization.
Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

11h – 13h

ROSÁRIO FORJAZ   MWW_Made of WaLking WaLter_ 2020

It is proposed a walk that is a place of experimentation and shared representation. It will be done in silence, it will be slow, synchronous, oriented and also not. It will be open to a relational dialectic of the body with the place of permanence, discovery, escape, ephemerality, playfulness. Concepts of drift / permanence, synchrony / asynchronous, silence / listening are called.

Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

online / global

14h -15h

LAURA APOLONIO The virtual “guide dog”: dialogical drifts

Invitation to walk a drift with a someone far away. The purpose of this walkshop is to create dialogical drifts between two geolocated people in different and preferably very distant locations. The participants are organized in pairs and each guides the other in the drift, as if it was a virtual guide dog, through communication by mobile messages.  Introduction to the walkshop on July 22nd  from 2 pm – 3 pm BST on Zoom, but open for participation from July 21st.  If you want to walk with someone else on  a distant location send an e-mail to: walk.lab2pt@gmail.com and we will connect you with the artist. In Spanish and in English.

 

online / global

15h – 16h30

HPU & ARTCARTO – A Sense of Impending Doom: a strata-walk for turbulent times – coordinated by TAIEN NG-CHAN

Taien Ng-Chan for the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit

July 2019, Emotional Cartography, Strata-Walk Map from Yoyogi Park, Tokyo

A Sense of Impending Doom: a strata-walk for turbulent times by the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit and the ICA Commission for Art and Cartography

For this walkshop, four members of HPU and ArtCarto – located in Canada, the US, and Australia – will lead participants through an investigation of the digital strata of Zoom and the intimate, analog materialities strata of one’s room (if in lockdown, as many still are) or wherever one happens to be. Starting in the centre of our collective Zoom and doom, we will explore our embodied emotions, networked places, and live speculative imaginings, mapping our way out to find the sky above us all. The resulting collective mappings will be constructed into an ad hoc art exhibition and all participants will share credit. 

For participation send an e-mail to walk.lab2pt@gmail.com and we connect you with the artists.

Full documentation: https://tinyurl.com/Stratawalk

online / global

21h sunset

NICOLE VOEVODIN-CASH – ‘BILLYcan’

Nicole Voevodin-Cash / walking as drawing

A walk like a drawing at sunrise in Australia and at sunset in Portugal. A simultaneous walk between the northern and southern hemispheres. 12 people walk at sunrise and sunset in Portugal and 12 people in Australia at the same time. Using Billycans (lunchboxes) as creative art objects to capture and document the embedded experience of walking on a (ritual) basis.

Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

online/global – ongoing 

BARBARA LOUNDER – Ambulant

Presential/onsite Continua/ongoing

venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

ROSIE MONTFORD with MÓNICA FARIA – Weaving a Path/ go with me

‘Vade mecum’ is a Latin term meaning literally: go with me. It has been in use since 1629 to describe guidebooks or manuals compact enough that they can be carried in a deep pocket and to which constant reference can be made.

I propose to show the value of carrying such a book around with you as you follow a route:  

Taking the concept of ‘vade mecum’, but transposing it from its origins as a personal book to instead becoming a collective fabric:  we will individually work en route, sewing and threading a continuous strip of sewing canvas using thread, wool, string, cord and anything suitable we find, as well as drawing directly on to the canvas, using our pockets to carry materials.

We will weave a path that records the surfaces of our walk, the textile to become a shared medium through which the group can stitch and weave their own experience of encountering the environment as we individually and collectively meander through and along the passageways of our route.

You will need to be wearing clothing with accessible pockets in which to carry materials:

1m. length of canvas, 10cm. in height, sewing canvas or a strip of cotton

Pencil, felt tip, oil pastel, wide- eyed needle, sewing threads, cord, wool, string, raffia  cut into manageable lengths, scissors.

Try and make it an early morning walk: Choose a route 1- 2 hours duration that includes narrow passages and alleyways.  Use movement, fluidity and lightness of touch as you dart and dive between the streets. Make pauses to stop and record your route directly onto the fabric. On your return, you can elaborate further with more stitching and detail.

Email an image of your completed strip so that I can ‘stitch’ them together to form a shared continuous route to submit to the online exhibition. Please include your name and location for the piece. rosiemontford@hotmail.com.

Online / global – Continua / ongoing

RONALD DUARTE  – “Deriva na Mata Atlântica”

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA - RJ - BRASIL

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA – RJ – BRASIL

Localização do Bioma Mata Atlântica (polígono verde) no Brasil

Deriva na Mata Atlântica is a video in which the artist transmits through a walk in the forest, from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil the splendor of nature, in its form and sound. It allows us to stroll through the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest and watch peculiar images and the magical sounds of this fascinating experience that exalts life.

Keyspeaker - Francesco Careri

A talk with Francesco Careri (video-interview and live discussion)

together with Rodrigo Paglieri

July, 22nd – 17h – 18h BST

Francesco Careri (IT) – architect and Research Professor in the Dipartimento di Architettura of the University of Roma Tre. Since 1995 he is a founding member of the Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade urban art workshop. He is working now on the informal urban settlements, exploring innovative possibilities of intervention, in particular in Rome with critics and proposals about the living conditions of the Roma People. He teach in the Faculty of Architecture in the cours of “civic art” a peripatetic laboratory founded in the walking exploration of the neglected zones of the city and actually he is the Director of the Master MAAC_Master Arti Architettura Città. He is working actually with the LAC laboratory of Civic Art explorig the multicultural possibilities of Roma inclusion in the housing rights movement. He’s main publications are the books Constant. New Babylon, una città nomade, Testo & Immagine, Torino 2001; and Walkscapes. Walking as an aesthetic practice, Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcellona 2002, Einaudi Torino, 2006.

Rodrigo Paglieri, Chile (Invited Assistant Professor of Visual Arts – School of Architecture, UMinho, Portugal)

Round Table I - Walking and (im)mobility. Challenging space and creativity in times of lockdown.
Round Table I, on July 22nd at 18h30 – 20 h BST.
 
Walking and (im)mobility. Challenging space and creativity in times of lockdown.
 
Walking practices are naturally related to the physical environment in which they happen. Either in the urban or rural context, either as a solitary or as a collective action, the encounter between body and space is always a revelatory moment of deep exploration. But what happens when this relation is suddenly broken or suspended? Can we practice “walking” beyond its physicality? What other approaches, layers of imagination or ways of living the space can we experience in a state of immobility?   The round-table discussion will explore a series of questions, ideas and provocations about walking in lockdown and the different challenges provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. Different creative approaches, the reflections provoked by the “suspended and controlled” act of walking and its impact in our own internal and external environment, the awareness of the multiple meanings, values and functions of walking, will be some of the perspectives that will be analysed in the session.   The current pandemic situation is opening up new emergencies and new challenges in terms of environmental awareness and about the shared construction of the public sphere, in which the walking art practices could provide some visionary perspectives.
 
Moderators: Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio and Miguel Bandeira Duarte.
 
Speakers: Johanna Steindorf, Rui Filipe Antunes, Joseph Young, Elena Lacruz & Ines Moreira, Conor McGarrigle.
 

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio (ES) researcher, writer, editor and curator, working across different disciplines, territories and cultures. He holds an international PhD in “Art History, Theory and Criticism” from the University of Barcelona and he is currently teaching in different Universities. Herman combines academic research, cultural management, curatorial practices and artistic methodologies, collaborating with a wide range of projects and organizations internationally. His current lines of investigation involve the subjects of intercultural processes, participation, collaboration, travelling, globalization and mobility in contemporary arts and cultural policies. His practice and research explores the topics of art in public space, walking/journeying practices and the broader interactions between contemporary creation and transnational relations.

​​https://www.transartinstitute.org/people/herman-bashiron-mendolicchio.

Miguel Bandeira Duarte (PT) is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (EAUM) and Director of the Nogueira da Silva Museum – Cultural Unit of the University of Minho since 2015. Researcher member of Lab2PT – Laboratory of Landscapes, holds a PhD in Fine Arts: Drawing (FBAUL / 2016) with the thesis “The Place and the Object as a circumstance of Esquisso”, financed by FCT. He teaches courses in Architecture, Product Design and Visual Arts. He has been coordinator of Estúdio UM (estudioum.org) since 2008.

Walkshops 2

presential /onsite com avatar RODRIGO PAGLIERI

9h30 – 11h30 venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

ZOE BALASCH – Emotional Geographies walkshop

The participants under the instructions of the guide / performer follow an experiential itinerary composed by different stops around. The walkshop will be composed by several stops, creating each one a different scene, experience, action or atmosphere. There will be moments of shared intimacy, also personal inner connection when participating in a silent meditation walking, or group shared awakening instants relating to the urban environment / urban architecture and it’s inhabitants. Everything will have a game, ironic and unexpected risky character taking the audience into a friendly conscious awareness trip, with different rhythms. Uncommon situations will take place in ordinary spaces and unnoticed sites and new perspectives will be discovered.

11h – 13h (in portuguese)

ANA WILLERDING – Palma da Mão

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AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_2
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_3
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_4
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_5

“The proposal of the workshop will be to use some displacement that you do on foot, to do it with this more attentive look to what you don’t usually notice. The intention is to manipulate your attention to detail. When doing this route, now more attentive, you should choose an object that somehow catches your attention and register it. Remember that they are objects that can easily fit in the palm of your hand.”

Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

Ana Willerding – Palma da Mão

Ana Willerding – site (académico)

 

 

online / global

13h -15h

RODRIGO PAGLIERI – RADIONÔMADA Project

Rodrigo Paglieri 1

The RADIONÔMADA Project is a radio-map landscape, which consisted of a 38-day hike through the interior of the Iberian Peninsula between Barcelona and Porto and the creation of a radio-map: a digital radio station with live transmission and a graphical user interface map with trail and geolocation on the Google Maps platform.

online / global

15h – 17h

CARINA PESCH – Distant Walk

A walkshop that takes place in different places – wherever the participants are – but simultaneously. Different places, spaces, and timezones become connected and will be reimagined by the participants.

Time: 4pm-6pm (Leipzig/Germany time, UTC+2) respectively 3pm-5pm (Guimarães/Portugal time, UTC+1). All you need, is a mobile device (like a smartphone) with either the zoom app installed, enough mobile data, and a stable internet connection or a phone connection. You will join an audio chat and be connected. Before the start, there will be an introduction to a voice impro technique called Automatic Speaking that was invented by sound artist Antje Vowinckel. It is a fusion of écriture automatique (transferred to spoken word) and musique concrète (transferred to language).

All participants will start walking together wherever they are, and one of eight performer-participants at a time will be talking without pause, describing everything that can be perceived in the surrounding and within. The others will listen while walking. The walkshop will be closed by a reflexion round where participants may share their experiences and imaginations.
Everything will be in English.
Participation is for free – PLEASE REGISTER: walk.lab2pt@gmail.com.

presencial / onsite

20h – 22h venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

IENKE KASTELEIN & MANUELA FERREIRA – WALKING WATER a hybrid walkshop

Foto Ienke Kastelein - Fontaine de Vaucluse – contemplating water time and being
What does it mean to be human in this world – how do we belong here? We are floating in space and flowing in time both body and mind, like water. When we cover our ears we hear the sea and we feel our blood streaming through our veins. Thinking with the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky we can say that when we look around we look as if it were into a mirror: we are made of the same fabric as the world around us.
More than anything else we are watercarriers. We walk water, or maybe, when we think otherwise: water walks us.
A first virtual walk in Guimaraes looking for water took Ienke Kastelein to the sources Fonte Ramada and the Fonte Sana. On her walk she passed the Tanques de Couros at Largo de Cidade connecting water and walking – through the old shoe- industry.
The artist invites to performative walking practice/workshop as an investigation into walking, water and being.
A ±120 minutes walk following a predetermined path/route through Whatsapp exploring being-water and water-being through a combination of walking, performative embodiment, poetic texts and props.
max 12 participants Elsewhere / connected through the WhatsApp group and Ienke Kastelein

Participation for free, registration: walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

Local walk in Guimaraes in Portuguese with local artist Manuela Ferreira as avatar: 

online/global – ongoing 

BARBARA LOUNDER – Ambulant

Presential/onsite Continua/ongoing

venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

ROSIE MONTFORD with MÓNICA FARIA – Weaving a Path/ go with me

‘Vade mecum’ is a Latin term meaning literally: go with me. It has been in use since 1629 to describe guidebooks or manuals compact enough that they can be carried in a deep pocket and to which constant reference can be made.

I propose to show the value of carrying such a book around with you as you follow a route:  

Taking the concept of ‘vade mecum’, but transposing it from its origins as a personal book to instead becoming a collective fabric:  we will individually work en route, sewing and threading a continuous strip of sewing canvas using thread, wool, string, cord and anything suitable we find, as well as drawing directly on to the canvas, using our pockets to carry materials.

We will weave a path that records the surfaces of our walk, the textile to become a shared medium through which the group can stitch and weave their own experience of encountering the environment as we individually and collectively meander through and along the passageways of our route.

You will need to be wearing clothing with accessible pockets in which to carry materials:

1m. length of canvas, 10cm. in height, sewing canvas or a strip of cotton

Pencil, felt tip, oil pastel, wide- eyed needle, sewing threads, cord, wool, string, raffia  cut into manageable lengths, scissors.

Try and make it an early morning walk: Choose a route 1- 2 hours duration that includes narrow passages and alleyways.  Use movement, fluidity and lightness of touch as you dart and dive between the streets. Make pauses to stop and record your route directly onto the fabric. On your return, you can elaborate further with more stitching and detail.

Email an image of your completed strip so that I can ‘stitch’ them together to form a shared continuous route to submit to the online exhibition. Please include your name and location for the piece. rosiemontford@hotmail.com.

Online / global – Continua / ongoing

RONALD DUARTE  – “Deriva na Mata Atlântica”

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA - RJ - BRASIL

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA – RJ – BRASIL

Localização do Bioma Mata Atlântica (polígono verde) no Brasil

Deriva na Mata Atlântica is a video in which the artist transmits through a walk in the forest, from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil the splendor of nature, in its form and sound. It allows us to stroll through the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest and watch peculiar images and the magical sounds of this fascinating experience that exalts life.

Keyspeaker - Duarte Belo

A talk with Duarte Belo (video-interview and live discussion)

together with Miguel Bandeira Duarte and Natacha Antão Moutinho

July, 23nd – 17h – 18h BST

Duarte Belo (PT), has a degree in Architecture (1991). In parallel with his initial activity in architecture, he develops projects in photography. He has been exhibiting individually since 1989, having already participated in numerous individual exhibitions. In Documenta, he published: A Torre (with Maria Inês Cordeiro), in 2013; Maria Gabriela Llansol – The Unexpected Encounter of the Diverse (with Ilda David), in 2014; Cesariny – In Casas Como Aquela (with José Manuel dos Santos), in 2014; Alberto Carneiro – Natureza Dentro, in 2017.

Miguel Bandeira Duarte, Portugal (AssistantProfessor of Visual Arts, researcher Lab2PT, School of Architecture, Director of Museu Nogueira da Silva – University of Minho, Portugal)

Natacha Antão Moutinho, Portugal (Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Researcher Lab2PT,  course director of Visual Arts, School of Architecture – University of Minho, Portugal)

 

Roud Table II - “I am women.x when I walk”

Round Table II, on July 23nd at 18h30 – 20 h BST.

“I am women.x when I walk” engages with three performative gestures – walking alone, walking with someone else and walking out – in a feminist intersectional perspective. The panel addresses walk-based practices of solitary walking, perceptions of fear, reclaims of public spaces, protests, subjective and collective re-mappings of urban endeavours. How do walking art practices reveal and/or suspend the regular gendered configuration of safe and unsafe spaces? How do they intertwine or disrupt official narratives of walking art practices? What do they resist to/emancipate from?

Moderators: Federica Martini and Natacha Moutinho

Speakers: Alice Neveu, Esmeralda Gómez Galera, Fernando Ferreira, Johanna Reichart, Judith Franke

Federica Martini (CH), art historian and curator with a PhD in exhibition history from the University of Turin. She worked as curator at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and at Musée cantonal de Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. Since 2009 she has been a teacher and coordinator of MAPS – Arts in Public Spheres at ECAV University of Applied Arts of Canton Wallis in Sierre. Now she is Dean of EDHEA. She is the co-author with Vittoria Martini of “Just Another Exhibition: Stories and Politics of Biennials” (Milan 2011). She curated with Robert Ireland the book “Pavilions. Art in Architecture” (Brussels 2013). She is the curator of the Museum of Post Digital Cultures, founded with Elise Lammer in 2013 www.postdigitalcultures.ch 

https://edhea.ch/annuaire/federica-martini

Natacha Antão Moutinho (PT) is a painter, a researcher and a teacher, deeply engaged in drawing and colour. She is an Assistant Professor in Drawing at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, Braga and Guimarães, Portugal, where she teaches since 2006. She finished her PhD in 2016, in Fine Arts – Drawing specialty, at FBA Lisbon University, under the subject “Colour in the creative process” – an investigation about the space of colour in the architectural design. She is an integrated researcher at Lab2PT (Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory).

https://www.natachaantao.wordpress.com

 

 

Walkshops 3

presencial / onsite

9h30 – 11h30  venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

TIAGO PORTEIRO – Caminhar em companhia dos Viewpoints

Tiago Porteiro
The performative actions will be activated in moments of set (with the necessary security), as in moments of individual drift. And sharing experiences can arise at every moment.
Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com
 

11h – 13h (in portuguese)

ANA WILLERDING – Palma da Mão

AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_1
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_2
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_3
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_4
AnaWillerding_PalmadaMao_5

“The proposal of the workshop will be to use some displacement that you do on foot, to do it with this more attentive look to what you don’t usually notice. The intention is to manipulate your attention to detail. When doing this route, now more attentive, you should choose an object that somehow catches your attention and register it. Remember that they are objects that can easily fit in the palm of your hand.”

Free participation, registration via email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com

Ana Willerding – Palma da Mão

online / global

13h -14h30

RONALD DUARTE  – “Deriva na Mata Atlântica”

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA - RJ - BRASIL

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA – RJ – BRASIL

Localização do Bioma Mata Atlântica (polígono verde) no Brasil

Deriva na Mata Atlântica is a live video in which the artist transmits through a walk in the forest, from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil the splendor of nature, in its form and sound. It allows us to stroll through the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest and watch peculiar images and the magical sounds of this fascinating experience that exalts life.

live streaming YOUTUBE – 

online / global

14h30 – 16h30

GISELA FARIA & NUNO AROSO – Flâneur: uma cartografia do intangível

Gisela & Nuno

online/global – ongoing 

BARBARA LOUNDER – Ambulant

Presential/onsite Continua/ongoing

venue: IDEGUI / Guimarães

ROSIE MONTFORD with MÓNICA FARIA – Weaving a Path/ go with me

‘Vade mecum’ is a Latin term meaning literally: go with me. It has been in use since 1629 to describe guidebooks or manuals compact enough that they can be carried in a deep pocket and to which constant reference can be made.

I propose to show the value of carrying such a book around with you as you follow a route:  

Taking the concept of ‘vade mecum’, but transposing it from its origins as a personal book to instead becoming a collective fabric:  we will individually work en route, sewing and threading a continuous strip of sewing canvas using thread, wool, string, cord and anything suitable we find, as well as drawing directly on to the canvas, using our pockets to carry materials.

We will weave a path that records the surfaces of our walk, the textile to become a shared medium through which the group can stitch and weave their own experience of encountering the environment as we individually and collectively meander through and along the passageways of our route.

You will need to be wearing clothing with accessible pockets in which to carry materials:

1m. length of canvas, 10cm. in height, sewing canvas or a strip of cotton

Pencil, felt tip, oil pastel, wide- eyed needle, sewing threads, cord, wool, string, raffia  cut into manageable lengths, scissors.

Try and make it an early morning walk: Choose a route 1- 2 hours duration that includes narrow passages and alleyways.  Use movement, fluidity and lightness of touch as you dart and dive between the streets. Make pauses to stop and record your route directly onto the fabric. On your return, you can elaborate further with more stitching and detail.

Email an image of your completed strip so that I can ‘stitch’ them together to form a shared continuous route to submit to the online exhibition. Please include your name and location for the piece. rosiemontford@hotmail.com.

Online / global – Continua / ongoing

RONALD DUARTE  – “Deriva na Mata Atlântica”

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA - RJ - BRASIL

CAMINHADA MATA ATLÂNTICA – RJ – BRASIL

Localização do Bioma Mata Atlântica (polígono verde) no Brasil

Deriva na Mata Atlântica is a video in which the artist transmits through a walk in the forest, from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil the splendor of nature, in its form and sound. It allows us to stroll through the fauna and flora of the Atlantic Forest and watch peculiar images and the magical sounds of this fascinating experience that exalts life.

Keyspeaker - Karen O'Rourke

A soundwalk in Houston (on distance) and live walking conversation with Karen O’Rourke

together with Yannis Ziogas and Geert Vermeire

July, 24th -17-18h BST

Karen O’Rourke (USA) is an artist and emeritus professor at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne. Her work explores the relationship between artistic practice and the concepts of network, archive and territory. Her art and network projects include City Portraits (1989-92), Paris Réseau / Paris Network (1993-2000), Archiving as art (1997-2000), A Map Larger Than the Territory (2002-2004), Eavesdroplets (2006 ), Partially Buried University (2008-2010) and Artists Bearing Gifts (2013-).

Karen O’Rourke’s work explores the relationship between art practice and the concepts of network, archive and territory. Her art and network projects include City Portraits (1989-92), Paris Réseau / Paris Network (1993-2000), archiving as art (1997-2000), A Map Larger Than the Territory (2002-2004), Eavesdroplets (2006),  Partially Buried University (2008-2010) and Artists Bearing Gifts (2013–). Her theoretical research on contemporary art has led to a series of articles and resulted in two works of synthesis. The first, Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers was published by the MIT Press in 2013. In it, she explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. Some chart “emotional GPS”; some use satellites for creating landscapes made of data –“datascapes”– while others use their legs to do “speculative mapping.” The second, Des arts-réseaux aux dérives programmées : actualité de « l’art comme expérience » (From art networks to programmed drifts: the topicality of “art as experience”), is an adaptation of her habilitation thesis. Earlier publications include Paris Réseau/Paris Network (2000), a bilingual CD-Rom, Archiving as Art (2000), an exhibition catalogue, Art-Réseaux (1992), an edited book documenting the collaborative activities of the Art-Réseaux group in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

She is an emeritus Professor at Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne). With three colleagues at the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne and partners in France and abroad, she has recently developed a research project called The End of Maps ? Dream Territories, Standardized Territories which  involved a series of workshops, a conference, and a book to be published by the Publications universitaires de Provence.

Geert Vermeire, Belgium (artist, curator, “Made of Walking” coordinator).

Yannis Ziogas, Greece (Associate Professor and Rector, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia, Greece,l March to Prespes coordinator, Greece).

Round tables III - Walking Narratives: the body as a carrier of stories

Round Table III, on July 24nd at 18h30 – 20 h BST.

Walking Narratives: the body as a carrier of stories

The round table introduces different walking narratives distinct in the way they are developed, due to the different processes they are unfolded in.

Stories are carried in memory and remain existing for as long as there is a body to bear them. Walking is not characterized by one solid approach; it can be drifting, wandering, strolling, aimless, or purposeful. Each one of these practices suggests a body that remembers and they are introducing different approaches of storytelling.

Barthes talks about narrative as a human condition, present at all times, at all places, in all societies. Walking is becoming aware, of the physical conditions of the environment, of the creation of an own space in relation to the act of walking. The walker (re)composes and writes the landscape through walking, in a multimodal and multidimensional manner, or to refer to Certeau: walking is writing without being able to see the text. This makes the landscape migrational, metaphorical. A narration can be the outcome of a scenario set by the creative walker to be applied in various places and on several occasions.

Moderators: Yannis Ziogas and Geert Vermeire

Speakers: Karen O’Rourke (France/US), Viv Corringham (US), Rosie Montford (UK), Gerald Gordon (Japan/UK),  Bill Psarras (Greece)

Geert Vermeire (BE).Curator, artist, poet: ecology, spatial writing, locative sound & performance. Co-founder of the Milena principle, core team member of CGeomap, initiator and convenor of Made of Walking, co-coordinator of Walk Listen Create and of Supercluster – Locative Media for the Anthropocene, curator of Oika.  http://www.themilena.com/made-of-walking https://walklistencreate.org/ https://supercluster.eu/ https://oika.com/    

Yannis Ziogas (Greece). His main visual practices are painting, installation work and walking. He is Dean and Associate Professor at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Visual Arts, University of Western Macedonia.He studied Math (BS University of Athens) and received his Master’s in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (1991) in New York; He holds a Ph.D. from the University of the Aegean (2013). Since 2007 he has organized the walking arts process ‘Visual March to Prespes’., along with international Conferences on Contemporary Aesthetics with an emphasis on Walking Art, the most recent one of it being the Encounters/Conference Art/Walking Bodies/Walking Practices, Prespes 2019, and the e-publication Walking Art/Walking Aesthetics, Interartive, 2018). http://visualmarch.eetf.uowm.gr/ http://icowaf.eetf.uowm.gr/ 

DRIFTING BODIES/FLUENT SPACES realizes itself in a flexible and multidisciplinary format, with a main focus on walking arts. The event brings together research activities, whether academic or artistic, in a hybrid format, through online events, by events on distance, by local events in Guimaraes, and through a digital publication.

We are presenting three keynote speakers that will give an online presentation.  These presentations will be available digitally (walk.lab2pt.net) and online live via  Colibri / Zoom (link to be announced soon).

The online tables include the following themes: Covid19 (Walking and (im) mobility); Gender and female persona issues; The body as carrier of stories.

We ask you to register for the presentations and round tables by e-mail, mentioning the selections of your choice.

You can do this by sending an e-mail to: walk.lab2pt@gmail.com. 

All entries are free. We count on your presence in our event.

On the other hand, we would like to ask you, according to your situation, for a donation for the School Student Nucleus. Within your possibilities and without any obligation at all.

Payment details for the donation:
Title: EAUMINHO NUCLEO ESTUDANTES ARQUITETURA UNIVERSIDADE MINHO
Bank Account: 0130006056830 – EUR – Conta Extracto
ΙΒΑΝ: PT50 0035 0130 00006056830 54
BIC/SWIFT NUMBER OF THE BANK: CGDIPTPL
Bank Name: Caixa Geral de Depósitos

 

Any irregularity or suggestion contact: walk.lab2pt@gmail.com