This presentation by Bill Psarras reflects on the concept of topogesture which is a methodological distillation emerging from the author’s artistic practice over the last decade, within the remedial convergences of walking performance, poetry, and technology. Etymologically viewed, such a neologism is created as an oscillation between place (topos) and gesture (cheironomia), aiming to underscore how the artistic act invests meaning into and derives meaning from a place through performative, poetic, and technological practices. The presentation frames walking as an expanded site-specific performance that brings related processes (drifting, transmitting, writing) in dialogue with technologies, inviting an open dialogue on what it means to be “in movement” today.
