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Highlights
Walking the Weight of the World
A mulch "cultivator" emerged from collective and historical walks. This response to Rodin’s Burghers of Calais brings the weight, rhythm, and resilience of human movement into a museum through a path shaped by real and imagined journeys.
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is a 1,500-foot-long earthwork made from 6,000 tons of basalt rock, winding into the Great Salt Lake. The spiral form reflects salt crystal deposits and explores themes of entropy, transformation, and the passage of time in the landscape.
Il popolo della Terra – Dall’Argilla agli Antenati
The People of the Earth – From Clay to Ancestors Enya’s work seeks an intimate contact with the earth, first with the extraction of clay in the clay cave lake of Nurri, and then with the participatory realization of the “People of the earth”, involving in the process the community of Nurri. The realization will
Grateful Walking on Earth Day 2021
Share your gratitude with the Earth during a walk in pandemic times. Share with us a moment of gratitude for a place, for the earth, by sending your audio story and your location, together with a picture, a drawing, a small text, to our collaborative Gratitude locative media map and webapp for walking.
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Reflecting on locative media art – with Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire
Extensive duo-interview with Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire by Mike Dunnan and Cris Kimi, coordinators of the Earthlings Locative Media Summer School at King's College London. All about walking, with or without media, but above all walking as connecting with our Earth and of places and people.
• • Water, Earth, and Peace: Coming home to where we come from
Walking in transitional, interstitial spaces where Water and Earth meet is special. From walking-with and sensing the presence of rock and water bodies, on the banks of Lake Prespa (Greece) or the River Maas (Holland), it emerges to feel Water as home and relational peace quality, which inspires humans to create. To co-create and find forms for joint walking, artistic work, and ecosomatic practice, as ways of storytelling with Earth & Water.
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Walkeology and the Wunderkammer of Place
Session 2: Sunday 18th July Sharing the Wunderkammer In this second session participants share their Wunderkammers. We discuss the emerging outcomes of the project, the conference theme question ‘what questions does the ground you walk on raise? ‘ and excavate into the soul of our walking. Open to all whether you participated in the project
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
Symphony of Nature
Symphony of NatureAn early in the morning silent peripatos at the top of a hill , to smell the fresh air of the day to listen to the sound of earth, to explore the songlines of the area and last but not least to stare at the sun-Rise !!!! A case that one might succeed
Breath-stream
"Breath-stream" (2020) is a musical composition connecting human breath with local wind currents, where performers first identify wind direction via Earth Wind Map before aligning their breath rhythm to the wind. Recordings were collected from 13 different locations between early 2020, creating a platform that links individual internal experience with environmental awareness.
Walking pieces
Mesopotamian mud: A journey through voice and vessel
This project explores sensory and cultural connections between Cambridge, UK, and Basra, Iraq, through an audio-guided walk inspired by an enchanted pot from the Mesopotamian Marshlands. It combines art, geoarchaeology, and earth sciences to encourage reflection on human relationships with the land.
Articles elsewhere
A Pilgrimage to the Trees
What does walking mean to you? I guess, seeing as how you are reading this, walking is something you enjoy. I wonder why? What is it that you like about it? I wish you could tell me. For me, walking is powerful medicine. Walking is what humans are designed to do and those of us […]
Let’s Take a Walk #52 #EarthDay Today 1pm (EST) Twitter Guided Walk
In honor of Earth Day, Let’s Take a (Virtual Twitter Guided) Walk takes place on April 22nd at 1 pm (EST) #TogetherApart we will plant a seed, a flower, or a tree, beautify our neighborhoods, our streets with our action and our (masked) smile and pick ...
Sward {skin of the earth}
My new chapbook, Sward {skin of the earth}, published by Sampson Low Ltd, is available for purchase here Sward + post and packing UK £3.50 GBP EU £4.50 GBP Rest of the world £5.00 GBP Sward represents my walks up and down the central reservation of the A240, Kingston Road, from the Tolworth Roundabout to … Continue reading Sward {skin of the earth} →
