This morning I noticed that there were a lot more cyclists on the road than usual. I wonder whether some of the pro cyclists that are meant to be preparing for the Grand Depart from Leeds have either got lost by accident or maybe they have decided to do a cycle dérive! Seeing as this […]
Day 86. Bach
You never really get a good insight into the characters in the movie. Most of the time you don’t really see their full bodies either. They are awkwardly cut off in the middle, a part of the head is missing, another body is in the way. They seem to be s…
Day 86. Bach
You never really get a good insight into the characters in the movie. Most of the time you don’t really see their full bodies either. They are awkwardly cut off in the middle, a part of the head is missing, another body is in the way. They seem to be s…
Day 85. On leaving
It felt like a sea of time. When I arrived here, an old villa across the Danube a few kilometers from Grein, I decided to stay 2 nights but already the next morning I started thinking about another 2 nights. I wanted to write my stories and think and e…
Day 85. On leaving
It felt like a sea of time. When I arrived here, an old villa across the Danube a few kilometers from Grein, I decided to stay 2 nights but already the next morning I started thinking about another 2 nights. I wanted to write my stories and think and e…
Day 83. We are everywhere
Knut called himself a nomad, Knut the Icebear people called him. He asked for a cigarette. He sat on the bench behind my pink borrowed bike. When I told him I didn’t smoke he asked for money. I looked at his bike. It was stuffed with things, all hidden…
Day 83. We are everywhere
Knut called himself a nomad, Knut the Icebear people called him. He asked for a cigarette. He sat on the bench behind my pink borrowed bike. When I told him I didn’t smoke he asked for money. I looked at his bike. It was stuffed with things, all hidden…
Day 82. Miracles never last long
There are days when you leave a campsite from hell with a big road running behind a wall 10 meters from your tent and a sunday gathering of christian choirs on the field on the left side, singing about Jesus since 8 in the morning (amplified) ready to …
Day 82. Miracles never last long
There are days when you leave a campsite from hell with a big road running behind a wall 10 meters from your tent and a sunday gathering of christian choirs on the field on the left side, singing about Jesus since 8 in the morning (amplified) ready to …
Day 81. A little girl
Some days seem to contain everything. I don’t know if it has anything to do with my visit to the Mauthausen concentration camp yesterday. Yesterday there was nothing else. I only existed to witness. I took the images in, I didn’t try to understand, the…
Walking Library for Eigg Primary School 2014
In February 2014, the Walking Library visited the Isle of Eigg. A highlight of our trip was dropping in to Eigg Primary School, accompanied by a Walking Library sack of books. Every book carried was suggested by a member of the Walking Artists Network. The question the Walking Library asked them was: “What book about walking would […]
Rote Köpfe im Establishment
Das Schweizer Radio SRF2 veröffentlichte ein Interview mit Markus Ritter, der sich um den Nachlass von Annemarie und Lucius Burckhardt kümmert und mit beiden lange Jahre zusammenarbeitete. Zu Hören sind hierbei auch einige Ausschnitte aus einem erhalte…
Kolloquium: „Warum ist Landschaft schön?”
Ästhetik, Konstruktion und Bewertung von Landschaft • Das Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst NAIRS in Scuol (Schweiz) widmet ein öffentliches Kolloquium dem Thema Landschaft: „Grundlage und Bezugspunkt bildet hierbei der Text „Warum ist Landschaft schön?“ von…
Unterwegs mit Erkenntnisgewinn
Das Deutsche Architektenblatt veröffentlichte in der Ausgabe zum Schwerpunkt Bewegung (DAB 06/14) ein Interview von Cornelia Dörries mit Bertram Weisshaar zur Spaziergangswissenschaft: „Die Promenadologie, zu Deutsch: Spaziergangswissenschaft, gehört z…
Raum und Macht : Die Stadt zwischen Vision und Wirklichkeit
Dieses von Ueli Mäder herausgegebene Buch geht dem Leben und Wirken von Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt nach. Sie prägten in Basel, Zürich, Weimar und Kassel eine ganze Generation von Architekten und Soziologinnen: Wer bestimmt, wie Städte geplant und …
Marlene Creates (Portugal Cove, Newfoundland)
Marlene Creates is an environmental artist and poet who lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada. This conversation took place via e-mail, May 2014. Bach: You moved to Newfoundland in 1985, but the first installment in your current body of work began in 2002. What prompted the shift from the memory maps and […]
Walking with Beanie Bell on 25 April 2014
Fortrose I am walking with my good friend Beanie. Beanie and I have been friends since our undergraduate days in Theatre Studies. The second walk I did for 40 Walks was with Beanie’s daughter, Eloise. And now I’m at Walk 38. I am so immensely glad that we are here, taking time out to walk […]
daily rounds 2014-04-26 14:39:00
TRAVELLING LIGHTASHLYN WOODS24 hours between noon saturday and noon sunday 7/8 juneImagine yourself tramping the land. You have a bivvy bag and it is getting dark. You must seek out a sleeping spot and make sufficient shelter for the night with what yo…
daily rounds 2014-04-26 14:39:00
TRAVELLING LIGHTASHLYN WOODS24 hours between noon saturday and noon sunday 7/8 juneImagine yourself tramping the land. You have a bivvy bag and it is getting dark. You must seek out a sleeping spot and make sufficient shelter for the night with what yo…
RUNNING TIME: on my birthday, a thought about how running can act as a conduit to think about life (and death). And beyond.
Today, 24 April, is my birthday. Yet again. So I think about life and death and the running time of my life. And decide to share something from my PhD thesis, The Physical and Poetic Processes of Running: A Practice-Related Fine Art Discourse. The extr…