News
Find below the list of projects we are doing now in connection with the partners of the WALC project.
Upcoming events
September 14 2024
Bivouac 02 event
SORTIE D’ATELIER PUBLIQUEPerformance-projection, Concert, Repas partagé.
September 09 - 16 2024
WALC training residence 02
« ARTS DE LA MARCHE : Aux frontières de l’Europe, sur la Route des Balkans.»
October 24-28 2024
WALC meeting 01 Belgium
An encounter with all the WALC project partners.
Previous events
Confluence 03
Bivouac 001 event
Confluence 01
about this project
Contributing to the “Innovation” objective of the Creative Europe program and with as it main priority “Sustainability”, the Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) project establishes an international Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia. WALC sets a new model for artists and organisations in community based practices benefitting the rural and natural areas of all partners.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers in a shared network practicing and interested to explore Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, involving local inhabitants, engaging with local activists and nature workers, young artists and curators, open for an international public.
Thanks to the European support, WALC will realize two international walking arts encounters in the natural reserve of Prespa and simultaneously organize events and residencies by the consortium partners, mainly in natural and rural areas of their countries (Greece, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain), complemented by activities in other countries, after an open call. The whole process is backed by a digital and online platform and a digital archive/database for walking arts.
Physical events go along with horizontal online events, such as training, meetups, talks, workshops, and collaborative artistic processes, through an online platform gathering all the partners, and also the artists, audience, and communities.
With Europe's support, the successful implementation of WALC means to become a model of trans-European cooperation, allowing community-based practices, based on walking arts. and the emergence of new art venues, detached from the established art market, through experimentation and new artistic networks, and as fertile grounds for new and emerging disciplines. There is also a need for community-based art processes that enhance one of the purposes of art: its relation to society.
The Bivouac
Calendar
09-15 September 2024
TRAINING
WALC Training residence 02
« ARTS DE LA MARCHE : Aux frontières de l’Europe, sur la Route des Balkans.» Dans le cadre du projet européen «WALKING ARTS & LOCAL COMMUNITIES» La Constellation Gigacircus travaille sur la singularité trans-frontalière des Lacs «Prespa» que se partagent l’Albanie, la Grèce et la Macédoine du Nord.
23 July 2024
CONFLUENCE
CONFLUENCE 03 with Gustavo Alvarez
Sylvie Marchand writes: “I am very happy and over proud to introduce you to a Grand Mexican artist. Gustavo Alvarez, a performer and an anthropologist, is at the heart of great number of collective events and meetings, stimulating artists to resist and go beyond their passion!”
walklistencreate.org
19 May 2024
EVENT
WALC BIVOUAC 01
For this first experimental opus, we established a communication between local exiled people, us and the local community with people from Egypt and the Ivory Coast. We were looking for a first “borderless WALC metaverse” in terms of location but also technology, trying to erase visually and conceptually every kind of cultural, geopolitical and technological borders. « BIVOUAC » , A MOBILE SCENOGRAPHIC & TECHNICAL DEVICE.
walklistencreate.org
13-22 May 2024
TRAINING
WALC Training residence 02
The aim of the artistic residence was to explore how we can create a collaborative online and offline space in the context of the WALC project to bring to the project the question of borders, the possibilities and limits of walking with a special focus on the human flux between South America, Asia, Africa and Europe.
walklistencreate.org
27 March 2024
CONFLUENCE
Confluence 01 with Mohamed Nour Wana
Long faced with answering questions about ethnic, cultural, linguistic and geographic identity that cause thousands of people to flee their homes, he wrote and published a book about his experiences and those of fellow refugees.
walklistencreate.org
Map Training (SOON!)
online editor
mobile webapp
Team and Partners
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Sylvie Marchand
gigacircus.net
Autrice, réalisatrice, ethnographe, artiste multimédia et Curatrice. Chercheuse Art et Anthropologies Numériques EESI. Directrice Artistique, Gigacircus.
Lionel Camburet
gigacircus.net
Sculpteur de son et d'images - Sculpteur d'Espace-Temps.
Lelio Moehr
gigacircus.net
Artiste et réalisateur
Jacques Bigot
gigacircus.net
Artiste programmeur
Fred Adam
fredadam.net
Sensory artist creating with Nature and technology
How to participate
Please contact us if you are engaged in the topic of borders, migration and exile in your artistic practice.
visit the WALC website
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC – a new future of walking arts
walklistencreate.org
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Initial release
July, 22
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