The Walking Body (TWB5) is an international meeting of walking artists. The 2024 meeting, dedicated to “more than human walking”, will take place from March 18th to 23rd in Guimarães, in Bairro C, with the meeting point at the Garagem Avenida Gallery/School ofArchitecture, Art and Design.

 

TWB5 includes a week of walkshops, a round table with presentations of the invited artists’ portfolios and an exhibition.

The walkshops take place in Bairro C and have as their meeting point the Avenida EAAD Garage Gallery (Av. Dom Afonso Henriques 250).

The round table takes place on March 18th, at 7pm, at Café Milenário (Largo do Toural 47, 4810-225 Guimarães), and will be streamed live by our partners walk.listen.create, at https://walklistencreate.org/.

The exhibition brings together the process and results of the working week, contributions from participants and visitors, and will be on show until April 13th at the Garagem Avenida Gallery.

 

TWB takes place in Guimarães, Portugal, is organised by the Laboratory of Landscape, Heritage and Territory (Lab2PT), in collaboration with Made of Walking/ the Milena Principle, and is an event within the framework of WALC – Walking Artists & Local Communities. It is a project centred on the act of “Walking as an artistic practice”, exploring the imagination and creativity of walking in the city of Guimarães. TWB receives support from the European Union’s Creative Europe programme under the “WALC” project, a collaboration with universities and cultural partners in Belgium, France, Spain and Greece. It has also received support from the IMPACTA programme of the Municipality of Guimarães.

TWB5 has the participation of 9 artists, with the collaboration and involvement of EAAD and schools in Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Spain (University of Murcia).
TWB5 will include the following artists: Verónica Perales (ES), Soazic Guezennec (FR), Maria Ristani (GR), Geert Vermeire (BE), David Merleau (CAN), Fred Adam (FR), Manuel Miranda Fernandes (PT), Miguel B Duarte (PT) and Natacha Antão (PT).

 

This event is free of charge. Anyone interested in art and the act of walking can take part in these actions by registering using the form: https://forms.gle/r6uS9dBcC3ztSBj69

 

Anyone under the age of 14 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

The TWB art project and walkshops have been running since October 2018 and are organised by Natacha Antão (EAAD/Lab2PT), Miguel B Duarte (EAAD/Lab2PT) and Geert Vermeire (Made of Walking/WLC).

 

Concept “More than human walking”
Walking arts today became a response to the deep environmental global crisis we are facing today. Walking is one of the keys to contextualise and deepen our understanding and relation with the living planet we live on and that we share with other species. We are not only walking our planet, as isolated beings, as explorers, but we are walking with the planet. The sounds, the living creatures, the plants, the geopoetics of every place are factors that connect us to a Nature that is experienced and lived in every step we take. The Walking Body 5 is stepping out of the time and space of the man-made environment, entering in a no man’s land of nature, bringing us back what was before and to where we belong.

TWB5 is an event organised in the frame of WALC – Walking Arts and Local Communities, with the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program. WALC brings together 7 organisations in 5 countries across Europe, including walk.lab2pt. The project stretches over a period of 4 years, from 2024 to 2027, with the objective to establish an international centre for walking arts, based in Prespa, backed by an online platform, extended with local and online events, exploring collectively how local communities and walking arts intersect.

 

Information at:

walk.lab2pt.net.net (being updated)

https://www.facebook.com/thewalkingbody/
https://www.instagram.com/thewalkingbody/

 

The presentation of the results of this week of work will be presented online, on March 27, at 6:30 pm here.