The partners in the Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC), may be a little nervous for this evening’s Confluence, when they will be reporting on their achievements and successes for the WALC project to date. Each will be speaking for a few minutes about how the project has developed in their own constituencies, the collaborations they have already established, and their aspirations for developing opportunities in their communities for walking art interventions. This Confluence is their end of first year report.
The event will be coming live from Guimarães in northern Portugal, where Babak Fakhamzadeh has been setting up a photographic exhibition called ‘in loving memory‘. Part psychogeographic, part interventionist, our urban explorer and Derive app-creator colleague, has been leaving his mark through cities that he has walked over the last 18 months. ‘Hidden in plain sight’, whether you see it as criminal damage or as an ingenious art installation, Babak has left his mark on countless benches.
Babak’s exhibition will be opening in time for The Walking Body 6, that like this Confluence, is hosted by the Portuguese WALC partners from the University of Minho. The Confluence will be introduced by Geert Vermeire and Yannis Ziogas, WALC’s co-artistic coordinators.
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The co-funded EU Walking Arts and Local Communities (WALC) project offers an opportunity for public scrutiny of the project, by running bi-monthly free “Confluence events”, in which project partners come together to present how the aspect of the project for which they are responsible is progressing.