Conférence-balade 7 Walks
A lecture walk during which Vermeir & Heiremans show how they have integrated their project 7 Walks (Resolution) into Eavatea, an online cartographic environment for artistic research. They revisit key moments from their walks through the forests of Spa and reveal how the map becomes an active tool for reading, connecting and reinterpreting the terrain traversed. At Spa ! museum – Musée de la Ville d’eaux, Spa
18/04/2026, 13:30-16:30h
In 2021, Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans presented 7 Walks (Resolution) at the Musée de la Ville d’eaux, a project centred around Cabinet de Lecture, an exhibition housing documents and maps from the Body Collection. These maps, bearing witness to the uses and representations of Spa’s springs, enabled them to explore how water – a natural, shared yet contested resource – had been exploited over time.
Since this experience, the duo has continued this work on cartography by developing Eavatea, a digital infrastructure that transforms their walks and research into visual archipelagos: images, sounds, texts and maps are woven together to form new narratives, at the crossroads of the document and the sensory perception of the territory.
As part of the exhibition “SPA. Le dessous des cartes’, the Museum has invited them for a lecture walk during which the artists will demonstrate how they have integrated 7 Walks (Resolution) into this innovative cartographic environment. Thanks to Eavatea, they will revisit key moments from their walks through the forests of Spa and reveal how the map becomes an active tool for reading, connecting and reinterpreting the terrain traversed.
Before delving into this digital world, Vermeir & Heiremans will discuss several historical maps featured in the exhibition.
The event will continue with a short walk in the Parc de 7 Heures.
Practical
18 april- 13h30 > 16h30
Spa ! museum – Musée de la Ville d’eaux
Histoire et archéologie spadoises
Avenue Reine Astrid, 77b – 4900 Spa
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