Made of Walking Akamas

I’ve been spending the last week in a town called Neo Chorio, near the Akamas natural reserve on the island of Cyprus. This was the location for the fourth iteration of Made of Walking: a recurring symposium organized by the Milena Principle, a pan-European collective of multidisciplinary artists and thinkers bound together by friendship and collaboration. The theme for this summer’s iteration was Plant(e)scape, exploring the relationships between walking and vegetal life, and the various ontological, political, epistemological and aesthetic questions that emerge from that connection.

So over the last week or so, as we walked, listened, discussed, performed and endured scorching temperatures together, all sorts of interesting synergies began to emerge between our projects and perspectives. Many of the symposium’s attendants presented work that challenged us to engage with plant life in...