Is There a Place for REVOlution? or Peace and Biscuits

A new sound walk and installation made in a tunnel for Watch This Space #4WCoP23 September 2023 using graffiti by North Edinburgh artists and local history.

‘Is There a Place for REVOlution? or Peace and Biscuits’ is on the Chancelot cycle path under Ferry Road in Edinburgh on one of the greenways. What3Words ///fallen.reach.bottle

You can use your phone to activate the QR code and listen while you walk through the tunnel. Using graffiti, images and found text, it includes a site-specific art installation.

“AET REY NOOD Do you recognise this language? DAERB REY TAE. Can Google translate it? It’s    ABout DOing /  Or Don’t Be And (face the consequences).” This is text from the new Sound Walk.

I’m playing with words, making my own acronyms which are inspired by the found text. For example, “And Between Doing Or Don’t Be. Anyway, By Doing Otherwise, Deciding to Be And Bide, Doesn’t Our Doing Become……A Beautiful Door Opening. Or Don’t Butterflies Ascend?’ Am I speaking in riddles? I hope I haven’t lost you.

Using found words / graffiti that spoke to me

Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe

80% of ocean life is dead

Many

Deaths

Lives Matter

Unfuck the system

Fight

REVOlution, Revolt, Revoke

In this soundwalk, there’s some local history, activism and suggestions for when you are in a dark tunnel and cannot see the light at the end, the way out. There’s a film here on Vimeo that gives you a (silent) idea of the walk.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/862640479

“I often use Street Wisdom if I need to get an insight on a situation or a problem. Once I’m tuned up, I’II hold the issue and just walk with that in mind and body, and see what happens. (It’s basically a shorthand way of doing the Quest: “Streets, show me some options with all this!”) Something often, if not always, will come. Sometimes it’s slant to the topic. The other day I was full of different stresses, and the streets shared with me all kinds of patterns that seemed interconnected. I interpreted that insight as “Everything’s connected” (it’s nice to reduce the insight to 2 or 3 words). And that really helped!

Philip Cowell 

With MANY thanks to Alba Bersolí (film maker ‘El día que volaron la montaña’ (When the Mountain Rumbles shown at the Catalan Film Festival in Edinburgh 2023 on Instagram @albabresolí ) for lending me her laptop and teaching me some Premiere Pro, going above and beyond to support me, and being an all-round wonderful woman.