Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to photographs, sound works to maps, embroidery to performance. Materialisations that go beyond mere documentation, emerging instead as expressions of the relationships between body, place and collective experience. Workshop convenors Natacha Antão, Miguel B. Duarte and Geert Vermeire reflect on how the project has generated new forms of embodied and collective knowledge through walking. This is part of our Walking Arts Research section.
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