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Embodied Cartographies: Mineral Liquidities and Fluid Heritage in Bath (UK) and Guimarães (Portugal)
This paper explores Bath (UK) and Guimarães (Portugal) as UNESCO World Heritage Cities shaped by ancient mineral waters, using cross-disciplinary analysis of geology, archaeology, and history. Through walking the riverbank from Bath to Saltford, the study connects thermal waters, local deities, and embodied sensory experience to propose a nuanced, embodied approach to engaging with cultural heritage.
Going back in time
Adje Both and Simon Bradley's "Sounds of Teotihuacan', a sound exhibition tour at the UNESCO heritage site of Teotihuacan, traces the ambient music and sounds from the ancient civilization of Teotihuacan, reconstructed using various unearthed sound artifacts and instruments. The project creates an immersive experience for visitors, featuring 20 interconnected sound fields throughout the site, with soundscape reflecting stories and rituals of ancient culture.
Walkeology and the Wunderkammer of Place (remote)
The project addresses the conference theme question: what questions does the ground you walk on raise? Here, walking is seen as an archaeological process transcribed into a Wunderkammer of roaming arte/ecofacts, a hoard of perambulatory acquisition, a strolling epistemology. These are walks of collecting found objects and an installation that articulates the embodied culture of
Scalinantis
“Scalinantis” walk in the Nurri forest with packed lunch and breaks. – “Reflections on Thoreau and Snyder” with the artist / literary critic Martino Cappai. – “Lais & Salis Recital Concerto” by Anna Tea Salis, writer and Marco Lais, ukelele. Presentation of the book “Quartiere Benvenuti”, published by Catartica Edizioni. – Archaeological site with Paolo Marcialis,
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony.
Hearing Australian Identity : Sites as acoustic spaces, an audible polyphony. By Ros Bandt. Australian identity is a complex interplay of site, language and technology. Sound Installations are powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony. For each site there are many stories, dissolving around each other,
Distance Drift: future archaeology walk
Part of the Riddley Walker 40th anniversary celebrations. Walk wherever you are, indoors or out, with fellow Riddley fans. Sum Tyms Bitin Sum Tyms Bit joins forces with Festival CHAT 2020, a celebration of contemporary and historical archaeology, to explore the here and now through the lens of Riddley’s world. Follow Sonia Overall @soniaoverall and
Articles elsewhere
Interview with Kate Green
As part of the release of the hardcover/e-book release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 20th interview in […]
Terminalia 2022
Is it just me, or does Terminalia seem to come round earlier each year? Finding myself halfway between Peter Hammill and Henning Wehn, circumstance caused me to celebrate the festival in Scrobbesburh, which was especially exciting as the town was pa...
Terminalia 2020
In what has become traditional fashion, Terminalia was celebrated in Aberystwyth on 23rd February, feast day of the God Terminus. It was customary to walk the boundary of the town that day, visiting the boundary markers of which Terminus was the custod...
PhD research paper #1. Approaches to the study of landscape archaeology and history
From time to time I will post 'bite size' chunks of the material I am preparing for my PhD thesis: works in progress, but content which I feel may be of interest to a wider audience. All will be very much draft versions, not necessarily - probably not ...
