Month: November 2019
PAS – Parcours Audio Sensible, Soundwalking
(English below) Marcher Les pied accordés au sol à l’humus nourricier humus et humilité ont une même racine écouter le sol l’air le vivant donc le Tout les oreilles accordées aux vibrations sonores dans une écologie où la sociabilité est au centre du projet un process écho-logique où la bienveillante est essentielle l’expérience collective est … Continuer à lire ... "PAS – Parcours Audio Sensible, Soundwalking"
Decembers First Sunday
Greetings dear friends and fellow loiterers First Sunday This Sunday and we will be gathering for our last wander of the year. The location has been chosen by request, we also explored the area at night last month and we will be marking change in our own curious way. Please join us this Sunday, December 1st, starting 2pm in Cutting Room Square Ancoats. For those who wish to join us for the first time or just fancy a refresher here's some useful info. Our walks are always free and everyone is welcome. The pace and direction is set by participants according to their needs and desires. This is NOT a guided tour but a psychogeographical exploration and experiment in creative walking with interesting folk. We move through the city together so please come prepared to navigate the urban environment. Walks last a maximum of 2 hours and finish somewhere where we can have a chat and share travellers tales. If you have any questions, specific access requirements or need more information please do get in touch mlrose@thelrm.org twitter @thelrm or on our facebook group "the loiterers resistance movement." I hope to see you on the streets soon With love and golden apples Morag xx
walk · listen · create
Two years ago, I started an aggregator of content created by walking artists at I am the Walker . com. This year, working together with Andrew Stuck, of the Museum of Walking, and Geert Vermeire, of Made of Walking, we organised the second instalment of Sound Walk Sunday, which quickly evolved into Sound Walk September …
Listening and walking in Ljubljana: Št 2: “brez sledi”
An invitation to exhibit at Steklenik (http://www.steklenik.si/en/home/) resulted in a mid-November trip to Ljubljana. Steklenik, a partnership project of the Cona Institute (run by Brane Zorman and Irena Pivka; http://www.cona.si) and the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, is a sound gallery … Continue reading →
Making The Timekeeper’s Return: Testing
___________________________________One year ago this autumn, I reached the culmination of an overwhelming three months of creative work and collaboration when I designed, wrote and directed The Timekeeper’s Return, a story-based immersive treasure hunt...
Point d’ouïe, accordage des lieux swingants
Parvis Saint-Gilles à Bruxelles Réflexes musico-motri-sensoriels. J’arrive dans une ville, un quartier inconnu, ou peu connu, par moi en tous cas. Exemple personnel cette semaine, le quartier Saint-Gilles à Bruxelles. En soirée, nuit tombée. En début de week-end. Presque en hiver, mais avec un temps frais et clément. Réflexe, le parcourir pour l’entendre, mieux l’entendre, … Continuer à lire ... "Point d’ouïe, accordage des lieux swingants"
Presenting “Paths lead to Landscapes” in Munich
Börries von Detten and I presented our study on paths trough Munich´s Green belt (November 13, Munich) and discussed our findings with experts from the region. One conclusion was that working co-creatively on the green spaces between the municipalities is key to qualifying quality of life in the city region. A resilient network of […]
City Sonic 2019,Louvain dessus/dessous
Grosse journée sonore à City Sonic #16 Winter Sessions l Opening Louvain-La-Neuve. Après de belles rencontres avec de jeunes artistes, et une exploration de la ville surface, agréable à l’œil et à l’oreille, une plongée dans les sous-sols plus underground. Voitures souterraines grondantes, parkings archi réverbérants et à la muzzak improbable, quais en sous-sols jonchés … Continuer à lire ... "City Sonic 2019,Louvain dessus/dessous"
General Election 2019: Red and Green and Blue.
The roots of Socialism’s environmentalism go way back: Thomas Spence, for example, who thought enclosure and what we call now call factory farming should be replaced by ‘People’s Farms’. John Thelwall - ‘that Jacobin fox’, ‘the most dangerous man in B...
‘Walkings New Movements’
The 'Walking's New Movements' conference was held at the University of Plymouth, UK from Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November 2019 presenting an opportunity for participants to 'discuss the latest developments and future prospects for radical walking and w...
Walk 51
Blairmore to Frank, Crowsnest Pass, AlbertaFollowing the trail that follows the Crowsnest River from town to town across the pass, I walked to Frank and back from the Gushul Residency in Blairmore. A windy day in the mountains, but it felt so good to be out on the trail putting one foot in front of the other again! I've been impeded by a foot injury for many weeks, but talks of walks with friends today - from the daily commute on foot to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela - persuaded me to [...]
City sonic 2019, Arrivée à Louvain la Neuve, un bien-être auriculaire
Je suis arrivé en fin de soirée, vers 19H30 à Louvain La neuve, LLN comme on dit dans ce terroir belge. Cette « ville nouvelle » était à l’origine un campus universitaire géant, qui s’est progressivement développé vers une ville « normale », ouverte à une population plus large. J’arpenterai cette cité durant trois semaines environ, pour mon pèlerinage … Continuer à lire ... "City sonic 2019, Arrivée à Louvain la Neuve, un bien-être auriculaire"
111. Vanessa Watts, “Indigenous Place-Thought & Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go On a European World Tour!)”
I came across a reference to this article in Stephanie Springgay’s and Sarah E. Truman’s Walking Methodologies in a More-Than-Human World: WalkingLab, one of many texts they refer to that have resonance for my own work. Watts begins with two creation stories: the Haudenosaunee story of Sky Woman, and the Anishinaabe story about the Seven […]
110. Stuart Horodner, Walk Ways
Stuart Horodner, then at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art in Oregon and now at the Singleton Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky, curated a 2002 exhibition on walking art, Walk Ways, which travelled to, among other places, the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Oakville Galleries, in Oakville. It’s possible […]
109. Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman, Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab
Published as part of a series on research methods in the social sciences, Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab still has something to offer for those of us who walk as an artistic practice. However, it’s not an easy read, particularly if, like me, you’ve never read A Thousand Plateaux, know little about assemblage […]
Prehistory: Why is it so entrancing?
Circles without Class Ceilings Why can prehistory be so entrancing? Why do some people find prehistory so entrancing? Why do they become so spellbound When walking by, let’s say, a long barrow? How do they become so transported in time and space? ...
