The Walking Body (TWB5) is an international gathering of walking artists.

The 2024 meeting, dedicated to “walking more than human”, took place between March 18 and 23, in Guimarães, in Bairro C, with the meeting point at the Galeria da Garagem Avenida/School of Architecture, Art and Design. It included a week of walkshops, a round table, the presentation of portfolios of the invited artists and an exhibition that will be open for visit until April 13, in the Garage Avenue Gallery.

 

TWB5 was organized by Lab2PT, in collaboration with Made of Walking/ the Milena Principle, and is an event within the scope of WALC – Walking Artists & Local Communities. It is a project centered 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 also obtained support from the IMPACTA program of the Municipality of Guimarães.

 

TWB5 had the participation of 9 artists and with the collaboration and involvement of EAAD and schools from Greece (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Spain (University of Murcia), and had as participants the 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).

 

 

The results of this week of work are now presented online, on the walklistencreate.org platform: HERE

 

More information about TWB5: HERE