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Walking piece 1962

Map Piece

"Map Piece" is an iconic conceptual artwork created by Yoko Ono in 1962. This piece is part of her "Instruction Paintings" series, where the instructions themselves become the art, inviting participation and contemplation from the audience.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

Ciudad Cruel Imaginary Flight (CCIF)

This audio walk composition invites listeners to choose a walking direction and follow instructions for an imaginative urban experience, which can also be experienced while standing still. It is a development from the 2019 book *Ciudad Cruel/Città Crudele* and incorporates music created during a 2014 improvisation workshop at Teatro Rossi Aperto in Pisa.

Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces
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Any Eden in motion

2024-03-18 14:00
Garagem Avenida EAAD, Avenida Dom Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal

The Garden of Eden was (and is) the terrestrial paradise. Throughout the history of Western Art, there have been artists aplenty who have dealt with the subject, such as Masaccio, Hieronymus Bosch, Rubens, and more. This ideal garden was a place where nature was not inimical in any artistic rendition (by nature we understand everything

The Walking Body 5
Happened
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Reimagining High Streets Conference

Historic England
2024-02-20 10:00
Hippodrome Theatre, Hurst Street, Southside, Birmingham, UK

Reimagining High Streets is an exciting 1-day event for those working in the arts, heritage and local authorities to explore how community-led culture and heritage activities can support place-shaping and regeneration. 

Walking piece
Walking piece 2014

The Alternative Tour of Little Bredy

This audio tour is an adaptation of the performance ‘The Tour of All Tours’ that was commissioned by Inside Out Dorset Festival for the village of Littlebredy. It offers a tour of the tours, real and imaginary, that cross the village and in so doing creates both a critical reflection on the nature of tours and

Happened
walkingevent SWS20  

Nightwalk Werkspoor 2020_9

Expodium
2020-09-24 18:00
Zuilen, Utrecht, Netherlands

Expodium likes to stroll and awe. Ever since starting our monthly Nightwalks in Utrecht’s Werkspoorkwartier in 2015, we have seen the formerly neglected area with our feet, again and again. At the same time we have seen Werkspoor reappear in the city’s collective imagination. The area transformed from being an edge of the city –

Happened
walkingevent  

Russian Manchester

New Russias
2020-02-08 11:45
Portland Street, Manchester, UK

A walk through Manchester as imagined by Russians who have never been here. We will walk, we will stop, we will listen, we will look at the city through someone else’s eyes. Saturday, 8th of February Starting time: 11:45 Starting place: LEAF, Portland St

Happened
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Exploring with Sound Walks

2019-06-07 14:00
British Library, Euston Road, London, UK

Interested in literature, sound recordings, place, technology and walking? Then you may wish to attend our upcoming Exploring with Sound Walks event at the British Library on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. Following on from our recent ‘Season of Place’, which was about all things digital mapping; at this Sound Walks event Mahendra Mahey from BL Labs will talk about the

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3.00 PM 04/02/2023 Resonance EXTRA – walkplacedistancetime

In the south of an imaginary island: movement 2 I have an imaginary island. As part of a Groundworks project (http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/landlinks/) I made a walk around the south of my island. As per the project instructions I walked between randomly … Continue reading →

Martin Eccles
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Walking to the sounds

Having now settled on how to put this work onto my website there are now four weeks of sounds – https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/contencion-island/walking-to-the-s…ontencion-island/ – all on the imaginary island and from location...

Martin Eccles
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in the south of an imaginary island: land links

Following on the placing of the sound piece into radio aporee, I have now got the text, in book form, into a remotely, socially distanced, shareable form … for a slow reading experience. Having edited the text and prepared the … Continue reading →

Martin Eccles

od thi dog back

Yorkshire saying: ‘wait or slow down’.

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