Anima Loci: Journal of Images in Places, is pleased to announce its collaboration with Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC), an artistic cooperation project co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.

Founded in January 2024 and running for four years, WALC brings together artists, researchers, and cultural organisations working with walking as an artistic, research-based and community-oriented practice. As a media partner, Anima Loci will contribute to the dissemination and critical reflection of the project’s activities, with a particular focus on the visual, spatial, and imaginative dimensions of walking practices. Between 2026 and 2027, Anima Loci will showcase highlights from WALC’s activities through curated articles and photo essays published in the journal in the new section: Walking Arts Research.

Walking Art has emerged as one of the most experimental and socially engaged contemporary art practices of recent years. Rooted in the fundamental act of movement – shared by human and non-human beings alike – it offers a process-based approach to understanding place, migration, memory, and transformation. These concerns resonate strongly with Anima Loci’s ongoing investigation into how images mediate place-making and shape individual and collective imaginaries.

With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia. The project proposes a new model for community-based artistic practices that support rural and natural environments, while fostering collaboration between artists, local inhabitants, activists, nature workers, young practitioners, and curators. WALC builds on the work of hundreds of artists and researchers who approach walking as a shared, relational medium – open to local contexts and international audiences alike.

Through its interdisciplinary lens – bridging visual anthropology, art history, architecture, photography, critical geography, and related fields –Anima Loci will explore how walking practices generate images, narratives, and embodied memories that redefine the perception of places. This collaboration extends the journal’s commitment to examining images not merely as visual artefacts, but as lived processes that inhabit bodies, landscapes and social imaginaries.

Find out more about WALC:
www.walctogether.eu
Instagram: @walctogether

Project Partners:
Visual March to Prespes, University of Western Macedonia (Leader, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας, UOWM, Greece); walk · listen · create (WLC, Belgium); WalkLab2.PT at the University of Minho (UMINHO, Universidade do Minho, Portugal); Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea (Centre de Creació Contemporània Nau Côclea, Catalonia, Spain); Association Temps Reel (Gigacircus, France); Action Synergy SA (AS, Greece); Stichting Van Biesen-Mestdagh (the Milena principle, Belgium – from 2026 onwards).

Associated Partners:
Creative Media for Social Change (Amsterdam UAS, Netherlands); ReRouting (Berlin, Germany); Björkö Konstnod (BKN, Sweden); Collettivo Amigdala (Modena, Italy); Australian Walking Artists (affiliate); Anima Loci (media partner).