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Walking and Memory Mapping with artist Marlene Creates
Canadian artist Marlene Creates has used memory mapping in her work since 1986—maps drawn both by her and by others for her. Memory maps are examples of alternative maps, also called participatory maps, counter maps, living maps, deep maps, and even radical maps. Every map tells a story and alternative maps tell alternative stories. In this presentation, Marlene will
ALL BLOG POSTS – Tamsin Grainger
The URL leads to the blog section of Tamsin Grainger’s website, which features a collection of posts centered around walking art and cultural geography. The blog documents various projects, reflections, and research relating to walking as an artistic practice and its intersections with place, memory, and identity. Entries include explorations of specific walks, exhibitions, collaborations, and theoretical discussions that engage with landscape and cultural narratives through the act of walking. Throughout the posts, the content is rich with detailed observations about environments and communities encountered during walking projects, alongside photographic documentation and maps. The blog serves as an archive of Grainger’s ongoing inquiry into how walking creates embodied connections to geography and how it can act as a method for cultural storytelling and artistic expression. This provides insight into the ways walking practices contribute to understanding spatial histories and contemporary cultural dynamics.
To Walk
To Walk is a poster project by Richard Wentworth featuring his characteristically anonymous photographs of places in England, distributed in towns such as Charleston, Ramsgate, and Rochester as an invitation for the public to walk and re-engage with their urban and rural surroundings.
The Memorial Walks is a record of a unique project, in which artist Simon Pope invited a series of writers to memorise a scene from a landscape painting, which they would then be asked to recall while out walking in the open country. Continuing the exploration of memory and place at the heart of Pope’s multi-disciplinary practice, this artist’s book acts as a ‘field guide’ to the seventeen different walks that made up the project and features recollections from well-known literary names such as Geoff Dyer, Iain Sinclair, Hari Kunzru, Trezza Azzopardi and Tom McCarthy.
This beautifully designed pocket-size publication includes an introductory essay by project curator Steven Bode, alongside maps, photographs and other marginalia, as well as transcriptions of the writers’ recalls of the paintings, and the paintings themselves.
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