7 Walks (Placcaet)


Vermeir & Heiremans participate in the 2023 edition of Kunst & Zwalm, Over/with/within/through Water with a new chapter in their practice 7 Walks. Kunst & Zwalm is a biennial art route in the Zwalm region organised by BOEM vzw since 1997. The project invites artists to work closely with the environment and to imagine a new landscape. For this edition, Loes Jacobs/nadine and Chris Rotsaert/manoeuvre take on the joint curatorship. Together with 18 artists/collectives, they set to work around ‘water’. The reality of the Zwalm river crossing the landscape but also the power and mystics of water, and its social debate, became the guiding principle for unique artistic trajectories.


Vermeir & Heiremans present 7 Walks (Placcaet), a project that builds on the concept of ‘plura dominia’ or the simultaneous use of the same resource by different entities, in this case water. Next to a small documentary exhibition at the Zwalmmolen, they will perform four walks, in the company of four guest walkers, each with a different expertise related to water and its many uses and users.


Walking with…:


Sat 26/08/2023
David Aubin (UCL Louvain-la-Neuve – Politieke Wetenschappen) (EN)


Sun 03/09/2023
Lode Tanghe (Water+Land+Schap 2.0, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen) (NL or EN)


Sat 09/09/2023
Tom Vos (Uantwerpen, Corporate governance) (NL or EN)


Sun 10/09/2023
Walter Van den Brande (conservator Mola, Zwalmmolen) (NL or EN)


View the poster of 7 Walks (Placcaet) with elaborate project description