Artistic
research

For two years, Along the Walk explores new forms of artistic creation that are in line with the concepts of deceleration, environmental awareness, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and collective work. It is therefore a research project! The core of it are The Walks : 14 walking artistic tours, led in rural areas by duos of artists from 8 different countries. Each international artistic duo performs two 10-day Walks in rural areas of Germany, Slovenia, Italy, France and Belgium. These Walks are both the artistic productions and the research tools of the project. They allow the artists-researchers to develop, test and analyze their performative methods together with the audiences they meet.

Deceleration
decentralization

No flights are used in this two-year international project, all the travels are done by slower and more sustainable transportational means or by foot. The creation happens all along the artistic walks and it is not limited to the usual hour or two in specifically designated performing venues. Art is much bigger and wider and more mysterious. It rarely happens where and when and how we expect it. At the same time it also needs space and time and closeness to life to breathe properly and emerge. Artistic improvisation is of key importance, stating that every phase of creation process is valuable to share. The vulnerable emergence and collective discovery are of greatest value. The decision to walk in rural areas and visit small settlements supports the idea of the art that is both developed and performed in the same local environment, devised from the land and co-created by the participating audiences. Working outside the cities, the project also gives a stronger focus to time, environment and deceleration.

Shared
experience

Finally, the conclusions of the research and the developed approaches are shared with European professionals of the performing arts during the closing Conference and the publication of a Book.

The biggest spectacle in the world

Mathilde Vrignaud

DISCOllective

DISCOllective and Mathilde Vrignaud will be walking in the rural areas of Goričko, Prekmurje and Prlekija following the Ledava river. They will be walking backwards, moving forward while watching the biggest spectacle ever: the world they are walking from.
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JE SUIS HERMANN

Julie Doyelle

Christelle Delbrouck

Two women, two stools, a thermos of coffee.
Along their walk, when Julie Doyelle and Christelle Delbrouck meet someone, they take the time to sit down, to discover each other, to share.
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The Grimm Sisters

Ramona Krönke

Beatrix Brunschko

Ramone Krönke and Beatrix Brunschko will be walking in the area of Brandenburg. Their duo is called the Grimm Sisters. Like the Grimm Brothers 200 years earlier, they want to save folk poetry from oblivion and preserve a unique collection of stories for posterity.
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The Loophole

Inbal Lori

Raschid Sidgi

Inbal Lori and Raschid Daniel Sidgi will walk in Thuringia. Raschid is of Sudanese descent; his father fled to what was then the GDR in 1974. Inbal moved from Israel to Berlin 6 years ago. For her the Middle East is a place that she has also escaped from. Thuringia is where Sidgi’s childhood took place. Sidgi will lead Lori through a landscape of his early life…
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THE ROUTE TO THE ROOTS

Alenka Marinič

Giovanni Fusetti

Alenka Marinič and Giovanni Fusetti will be walking on the border between Italy and Slovenia and create from the land and the people that have been for centuries living in an area full of conflict due to wars, nationalism, differences in political systems, lately covid closures and the rise of radical right wing parties and organizations.
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Along the Weight

Marko Mayerl

Sean Gittins

Marko Mayerl and Sean Gittins will walk in the rural area around the Compostelle Pilgrim path in South-West France, taking into exploration the ideas of pilgrimage and the weights we all carry with us through life. The past, the people, the relationships, the family, the collective memory, the culture, the history, the emotions, the financial responsibility, the work responsibility, the knowledge, the burden, the support. In order to embrace this topic on a tangible level, the artists will carry 20kg of clay with them each …
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WALK 0

Maja Dekleva Lapajne

Matthieu Loos

Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Matthieu Loos, artistic co-directors of the project, undertake the first walk in Alsace, France. This walk is an opportunity to try out the artistic, productional and research principles that will be running in all the walks described above. The unique and fundamental guideline of their work is “collect and share”
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