(Ongoing artistic research project)
A poetic typology of ways for walking and the sensations they evoke – in the city, on the countryside, in the forest, in the mountains, at the seaside. Paths, roads, tracks, sidewalks, bridges… Inspired by the long-distance walks of my four-leaf clover.
The first seed of this research was sown during a residency at the Dansand! festival in Oostende in 2014, where I walked the green path around the city. During this walk I did not look to the left nor to the right, but only concentrated on the ground: the different types of pavement, the physical contact, the sound of gravel under my shoes. I gave a lecture and created a booklet out of this experience (see Publications). Almost ten years later, I picked up this thread as the starting point for a more ambitious artistic research project. During a residency at nadine - laboratory for contemporary arts in November 2025 I worked in collaboration with Ondine Cloez to investigate how this research could be presented to an audience in an indoor space through readings accompanied by objects, sound, light, etc.
To be continued...
