Walk zis Way

An installation and events by Laurent Estoppey

walking · listening · playing

September 9 - 13, 2025

Reception: Thursday, Sept 11th | 6:30-8:30P

More About Walk zis Way

About twice a month, I walk on the street for a couple hours, listen, improvise on the saxophone, in a dialog with the soundscape.

Part of a situation, I create a situation. People might hear me, or not. Notice me, or not. But if they do, does it turn them into an audience?

Meanwhile, I try to read the world, to tune into it.

Walk zis Way is an ongoing situation, to this day performed fifty times in twenty-four cities in seven countries.

It is the core of an artistic research, which will lead to a PhD thesis at SACRe (Paris, PSL Ecole Normale Supérieure) / ArtSearCH (Switzerland HES-SO)

This exhibition features films by Lee Walton, Vincent Capes and Cyril Caine, an installation and photographs by Laurent Estoppey.

Throughout the week, individual thirty minute walks are available on request with Laurent*

More About Laurent 

Swiss artist Laurent Estoppey has lived in Greensboro since 2010. He works between Switzerland and the USA, playing concerts as a saxophonist, composing for stage, dance, theater and sound installation, and teaches free improvisation at Lausanne University HEMU. Estoppey has performed in many European countries, in the USA, as well as in South Africa, South America and Russia. He has premiered more than three hundred compositions and published around thirty albums on international labels. 

He’s interested in all contemporary art forms and collaborates with numerous artists.

His doctorate research Walk zis Way, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, questions the relations between art, life and musical improvisation through an individual quest: walking in urban spaces improvising on the saxophone in dialog with the soundscape.

Geography, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature and arts accompany his reflexions.

www.laurentestoppey.com/walk-zis-way

Events:

Tuesday September 9th, 7pm

Concert with David Menestres, double bass, Michael Thomas Jackson, clarinet, Dan Ruccia, viola and Laurent Estoppey, saxophone

Thursday September 11th, 6pm

Community walk followed by a discussion & Reception 

Saturday September 13th, 3pm

Round table moderated by Dr. Corey Johnson

* For an individual walk, please go to the website www.laurentestoppey.com/GPS, pick a spot and write to estolaurent@gmail.com