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Keep Walking Intently
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to welcome art critic and historian Lori Waxman who will be talking with Babak Fakhamzadeh about her book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century. Lead art critic
• WALC Map Scramble 3 – documenting walking art with maps and mapping
Walking artist presenters in this video: Tamsin Grainger, Hannah Stageman, Fiona Hooton, Bill Psarras and Petra Johnson The third of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau
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Map Scramble 1 – presenters David Haley (UK), Lucy Furlong (UK), Janette Kerr (UK) and Emily Artinian (US) For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“. There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum
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Wainwright: Creative Mapping Workshop with Jessica Emsley
Join artist, Jessica Emsley for a walking art workshop. Together, we’ll explore the creative possibilities of mapping a walk, creating our own subjective maps through sketching and writing whilst on foot and developing these on our return to the Armitt. Inspired by Wainwright’s meticulous recording of his Lakeland walks, we’ll create both a shared record
• Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
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