Made of Walking (V) - walking bodies - Walking encounters/conference in Prespes - Greece, July 1-7 - 2018

Made of Walking (V) will be hosted by the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece  and takes place as a joint event with the International Encounters/Conference “WALKING PRACTICES/WALKING ART/WALKING BODIES”. The International Encounters/Conference will be held in the Prespes area of Greece, an unique natural environment with two lakes (Megali Prespa and Mikri Prespa) and a perturbing history of war and displacement for almost 50 years the 20th century, it is still a place of passage today and divided by borders with Albania and FYROM (Macedonia). 

The theme of “Walking bodies” refers explicitly to walking together and to groups on the move, embodiment, the nomadic process, migration, the concept of home. 

Artists and walking creatives are invited to participate to a residency of a week (arrival in the village of Parades, to create an in individual project open for participation or group project involving walking exploration of the Prespes area. An exhibition with the ongoing results of these walking explorations will be realised in the new Byzantine Museum of Agios Germanos in Prespes, and will travel afterwards as a nomadic exhibition worldwide. The residency will be concluded with a three day international conference (5-7 July) in the nearby village of Lemos about walking bodies and walking arts today in general. 

The encounters and exhibition are coordinated/curated by Geert Vermeire and Yannis Ziogas, rector of the Department of Arts of the University of Western Macedonia. The event will take shape in collaboration with a global scientific/artistic committee. 
Artists and all walking creatives are invited to apply for the residency and/or to present their work at the conference. 

Arrival for the residency June 28th to Sunday June 30th till July 7th. Arrival for the conference latest afternoon July 4th. 
Also attendees are welcome to participate. 

Registration is open from now on. Online info group sessions about the region will be organised monthly for artists/creatives desiring to prepare a specific walking project for the area.

For students limited free accomodation is available in the dormitory of the School of Fine Arts. Free camping facilities wiil be offered in the garden of the school and at the shore of the lake.  Further accommodation (to be paid by the participants) available in guest rooms and hotels for prices starting at 25 euros/individual room/night.  Flights to Thessaloniki and Athens, further transportation by bus/train. 

More information and/or your expression of interest via personal message [log in to unmask] and on http://icowaf.eetf.uowm.gr/

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