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‘Invisible to Visible’ a performance by Jenny Staff | video by Kel Portman
Jenny Staff’s walk: Invisible to Visible A video of the re-enactment of a pilgrimage walk made in Lancashire, England, that took place in a Greek village square and which replicated her 19273 paces.
Ea, eau, eay, elt
Works in Gudrun Filipska‘s ‘Ea, eau, eay, elt‘ series include ‘Beating the Bounds‘ a video work in two parts ‘Waymarks‘, ‘Enveloped Objects‘ and various audioworks, drawings and performances The Title ‘Ea, eau, eay, elt‘. comes from old colloquial East Anglian words for moisture and dampness – ‘elt’ relating specifically to the soft dampness of earth.
Cody Words Walk
As Artist in Residence at Cody Dock, Stephen Shiell worked with writer Melaina Barnes on a composition inspired by the natural, industrial and historical landscapes of the dock that sits on the banks of the River Lea. The composition is made with field recordings, music box and voice, using one-minute observational poems written by Melaina during
A Song for Fifty Hearts
Duncan Speakman’s ‘A Song for Fifty Hearts‘ was created for the year long public art project Palace Intrusions in Wells in Somerset. Duncan made a number of visits to Wells to find, record and compose his responses to a circular walk around the Palace walls. The final composition, ‘Song for Fifty Hearts’ was the result
Listening Between: There Here
This 15-20 minute street-level sound walk in Chatham High Street, Kent, combines live ambient sounds with slowed and real-time skylark recordings from a nearby riverside nesting site. The route passes The Brook and Military Road, featuring underwater River Medway audio captured by hydrophone, with headphones recommended for full effect.
Articles elsewhere
Tulips and Tractors: a walk between
A circular walk towards and through the site of the former Inglescombe Nursery (Wares) from Bath City Farm to From the Land and back. A memorable day. This write up has been a long time coming. Maybe because it took place on April Fools Day, No fools walking on this though! The report below is ghosted from an interview I gave for a colleague in the Research Office at Bath Spa University, many thanks for the hard work doing the write up.Read the article here or scroll through below [...]
Llanfihangel Genau’r Glyn [Llandre]
In search of Castell Gwallter. The castle was a text book motte and bailey (lat/long 52.462459, -4.028706), presumably of timber that was built by a Norman invader (Walter de Bec), captured by a Welsh chieftain (Owain Gwynedd), retaken by the Frenc...
Day 26 – 27. A place to return to.
The fog is slowly lifting. La belle Auriole is waking up, young people arrive to help with the farmwork. An old ecological farm, all alone in the mountains, 6 kilometers from the nearest tiny town, Opoul, where the people are kind and I spent two eveni...
