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Re-Sounding the Archive: Sound Archives, Memory, and Creative Practice
Online seminar series 1pm, Friday 17, 24 & 31 July This online seminar series brings together leading artists and researchers working with sound archives and creative practice. Across three lunchtime talks, invited speakers will share perspectives from their own artistic and research practices, with a particular focus on how sound archives are listened to, interpreted,
Clonbur le Chéile – sa Choill!
“Clonbur le Chéile – sa Choill!” is a binaural stereo soundwalk featuring local musicians and storytellers connected to Clonbur Woods, created to engage the community and encourage outdoor movement. Developed during summer 2020 with support from Culture Night and local authorities, it builds on previous online events to blend immersive audio with the natural environment.
The good in the bad: 1000 euros for the winner of the SWS Awards 2026
For years now, the news cycle has been saturated with images of war. The current assault on Iran by Israel and the United States brings with it the familiar rhetoric of inevitability, escalation, and abstraction. But though we might be in position to close our eyes to the literal horrors of war, violent conflict is never abstract. Just this
• Rolling Stocks and Railways
This is one of a series of four walking workshops. Please book for free through Eventbrite via the attached link. Join artist and newsprint enthusiast Eloise Hawser for a series of four different workshops with guided walks in London’s Docklands, looking at the area’s rich variety of stories, people and places through the lens of
Flights and Fights at London City Airport
This is one of a series of four walking workshops. Please book for free through Eventbrite via the attached link. Join artist and newsprint enthusiast Eloise Hawser for a series of four different workshops with guided walks in London’s Docklands, looking at the area’s rich variety of stories, people and places through the lens of
The Blue Parade (what the body knows)
The Blue Parade is a participatory walking artwork created by Stefaan van Biesen and Annemie Mestdagh for the “Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies” meeting in Prespes, Greece. The piece consists of a portable, ultramarine-blue textile structure carried collectively through the landscape as a “nomadic library.” Participants walk together, collect small objects from the environment, and place them in attached PET bottles, creating a mobile archive of local memory and identity. The act of carrying the canvas fosters awareness, cooperation, and a temporary community, turning the walk into a sensory, reflective ritual that highlights embodied knowledge, shared experience, and themes of journey and displacement.
Walking Detectives meet up
Can you help us grow the walk · listen · create archive, with details of walking pieces, and works about walking, that may have lain dormant for many years? We are also keen to reach out beyond the traditional territories, to make connections with walking creatives across the globe.
• Ports of Call: Walks of Art at the Royal Docks
Community based, artist-devised trails around the Royal Docks in East London. Features excerpts from audio recordings made by the project team along with archive recordings from Eastside Community Heritage. Directed by Toby Butler.
Walking Detective meet-up
We want to uncover the forgotten or not yet revealed walking compositions – will you help us in our detective work as we search through archives and make connections with walking artists, performers and writers across the globe? Can you help us grow the walk · listen · create archive, with details of walking pieces,
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Articles elsewhere
Barbados and Stroud and Stroud and Barbados
At the solstice, on the longest day of the year, I traced long lines across the Atlantic archipelago From Stroud to Africa, from Africa to Barbados, And from Barbados to Stroud railway station. I visited Risée Chaderton-Charles’ exhibition: Cari...
