Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab is participating in the International Walking Arts Program Lines and steps, weaving words and walks: The Walking Body III from the 19th to the 28th of March 2022.
Participating Institutions are the EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, Guimarães, Portugal, The University of Macedonia, Department of Fine Arts, Greece, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts of University College Ghent, Belgium, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal and Centro de Creació Contemporània Nau Coclea, Camallera, Girona Catalonia, Spain.
Walking is a defining human activity with poetic and political resonance as well as mundane and ceremonial manifestations that play a central role in contemporary art, social and cultural history. Within art, walking has been used repeatedly as a tool for thinking about space, movement, history and even material inequality.
Walking Body III (TWB3), hosted by the EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, in Guimarães, Portugal, is an international artistic event and innovative encounter with educational and research character. It has an interdisciplinary nature and approach, which includes theoretical and practical concerns on participation, encounter and dialogue. Incorporating visual and performing arts, TWB3 experimental activities enhance different learning possibilities as they focus on walking artistic practices, individual or participatory projects and exploration of new media.
TWB3 plans to hold 7 walk-shops, to take place during the week of March 21-25, 2022, which include walks, online workshops and artistic creation projects. The event will be based in EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design at Guimarães, Portugal. A colloquium will be held at the Garagem Avenida gallery (EAAD), and will be shared directly via streaming to a global public. TBW3 activities include also a discussion with international artists about their professional itinerary, presenting their projects in the academic, curatorial and artistic spheres.
In this frame, conceived and initiated by Klitsa Antoniou, the workshop The Right to the City will focus on an alternative way of experiencing walking in the city, as it will intentionally focus on places of movement prohibition and the challenge of artistically trespassing them. The title is taken from The Right to the City, a concept and a slogan that was first proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his 1968 book Le Droit à la Ville and has been reclaimed more recently by social movements, thinkers and several progressive local authorities alike as a call to action to reclaim the city as a co-created space.
This concept is about the rights of all urban dwellers, regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, ability, gender and so forth, to participate in shaping the city. It is about the rights of the excluded and marginalized to be part of the production of the city, for their needs and aspirations and fundamentally challenges existing power relations that drive urban development and production of space, including social, political and economic relations. The aim of the workshop is to make known strategies of space, enhancing the creation of innovative and original participatory and performing work and share walking modes and forms of artistic creation. The workshop is designed to bring together some of the origins, theories, processes, and manifestations of walking as art, of borders and borderlands, of territorial confines of the state, of the social production of borders and finally of the rights of all dwellers for a co-created space. Using this information as a catalyst, participants will complete walking exercises, and propose their own original walking projects.
The project the Right to the City will concurrently take place in two cites: Guimarães, Portugal and Limassol/Nicosia, Cyprus. Two groups of mentors will guide the participants through the project. The two teams (participants and mentors) will be connected on line with a shared platform where they can upload their work. Finally, they will have an online closing meeting to discuss their experience. Antonis Volanakis and Melita Couta will be guiding the Cyprus team.
Μικροβιακό Κελί Ηλεκτρόλυσης: Μια καινοτόμα τεχνική για τη διαχείριση τοξικών υγρών αποβλήτων
Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab is participating in the International Walking Arts Program Lines and steps, weaving words and walks: The Walking Body III from the 19th to the 28th of March 2022.
Participating Institutions are the EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, Guimarães, Portugal, The University of Macedonia, Department of Fine Arts, Greece, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts of University College Ghent, Belgium, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal and Centro de Creació Contemporània Nau Coclea, Camallera, Girona Catalonia, Spain.
Walking is a defining human activity with poetic and political resonance as well as mundane and ceremonial manifestations that play a central role in contemporary art, social and cultural history. Within art, walking has been used repeatedly as a tool for thinking about space, movement, history and even material inequality.
Walking Body III (TWB3), hosted by the EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, in Guimarães, Portugal, is an international artistic event and innovative encounter with educational and research character. It has an interdisciplinary nature and approach, which includes theoretical and practical concerns on participation, encounter and dialogue. Incorporating visual and performing arts, TWB3 experimental activities enhance different learning possibilities as they focus on walking artistic practices, individual or participatory projects and exploration of new media.
TWB3 plans to hold 7 walk-shops, to take place during the week of March 21-25, 2022, which include walks, online workshops and artistic creation projects. The event will be based in EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design at Guimarães, Portugal. A colloquium will be held at the Garagem Avenida gallery (EAAD), and will be shared directly via streaming to a global public. TBW3 activities include also a discussion with international artists about their professional itinerary, presenting their projects in the academic, curatorial and artistic spheres.
In this frame, conceived and initiated by Klitsa Antoniou, the workshop The Right to the City will focus on an alternative way of experiencing walking in the city, as it will intentionally focus on places of movement prohibition and the challenge of artistically trespassing them. The title is taken from The Right to the City, a concept and a slogan that was first proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his 1968 book Le Droit à la Ville and has been reclaimed more recently by social movements, thinkers and several progressive local authorities alike as a call to action to reclaim the city as a co-created space.
This concept is about the rights of all urban dwellers, regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, ability, gender and so forth, to participate in shaping the city. It is about the rights of the excluded and marginalized to be part of the production of the city, for their needs and aspirations and fundamentally challenges existing power relations that drive urban development and production of space, including social, political and economic relations. The aim of the workshop is to make known strategies of space, enhancing the creation of innovative and original participatory and performing work and share walking modes and forms of artistic creation. The workshop is designed to bring together some of the origins, theories, processes, and manifestations of walking as art, of borders and borderlands, of territorial confines of the state, of the social production of borders and finally of the rights of all dwellers for a co-created space. Using this information as a catalyst, participants will complete walking exercises, and propose their own original walking projects.
The project the Right to the City will concurrently take place in two cites: Guimarães, Portugal and Limassol/Nicosia, Cyprus. Two groups of mentors will guide the participants through the project. The two teams (participants and mentors) will be connected on line with a shared platform where they can upload their work. Finally, they will have an online closing meeting to discuss their experience. Antonis Volanakis and Melita Couta will be guiding the Cyprus team.
