liminality
Highlights
Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair
Last Listener at the Mid Atlantic Frost Fair is a soundscape of a poem by Michael S Roberts, an English poet and polymath. It chronicles a mythical, dreamlike and almost hyperstitional journey of the poet and protagonist through a frozen world.
Women Walking: Sensory Perspectives
Using a variety of methods, this series of mini-workshops encourage participants to take part and contribute to ongoing research projects around the issue of women walking. The topic will be explored from a range of sensory perspectives including: an audio workshop on women walking and liminality; a creative movement workshop exploring women walking, communication and diversity, and finally, a visual workshop exploring women's movement in film.
• Port | Limáni (remote)
PORT | Limáni sets out to practice, and test, a set of experimental walking methodologies within peripheral spaces in Edinburgh and within the Prespa region. Edinburgh (UK) based artists, Deirdre Macleod and Stephanie Whitelaw will each conduct separately, a set of repeated walks through peripheral areas in Portobello Edinburgh with which they are relatively unfamiliar
Steart is Gurt
We, the Bristol-based artist, filmmaker and producer, Simone Einfalt and the Bristol poet, writer and located audio designer Ralph Hoyte are delighted to be working with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on our ‘The Three Waters’ scoping study at Steart Marshes (Bridgwater Bay/Somerset/England) from early September 2025. We are hugely excited to be part
Walking a liminal line
Terminalia, celebrated on February 23rd, is an ancient Roman festival honoring Terminus, the god of boundaries, marked by sacrifices at boundary stones instituted by King Numa Pompilius. This practice evolved into the English custom of Beating the Bounds and inspires contemporary boundary walks, such as the author’s 2020 walk along the sea-land boundary in Skagaströnd, Iceland.
• Port | Limáni
PORT | Limáni sets out to practice, and test, a set of experimental walking methodologies within peripheral spaces in Edinburgh and within the Prespa region. Edinburgh (UK) based artists, Deirdre Macleod and Stephanie Whitelaw will each conduct separately, a set of repeated walks through peripheral areas in Portobello Edinburgh with which they are relatively unfamiliar and which have a liminal quality to them, by virtue of becoming derelict, experiencing land use change or being, in some way, ‘unregulated’ spaces which experience a range of human and animal uses.
Percursos-experiência: propostas para rever a cidade
The audio-paper discusses the 2019 performative project "Three routes and a detour towards the same end," developed during the "Dramaturgies of the Everyday" research at the University of Porto. The project consists of four guided walks through Porto’s Bonfim district, using distinct approaches to explore urban fictionality, narrative time, and subjective experience within everyday routes.
Búðahraun
This work investigates distance, time, movement, and place through replicated walks across the Búðahraun lava field in Iceland, captured via field recording and sound design. Originally broadcast on Resonance Extra’s Flux, it explores liminal spaces and temporality by contrasting walks at dawn and dusk on the summer solstice, integrating natural sounds and embodied movement into a sonic portrait of the landscape.
Articles elsewhere
Aust
Travelling north from Somerset to Wales on the M48, one crosses the first suspension bridge crossing, opened by Elixabeth II in 1966 with the aid of her consort. As you cross to the far bank of the Severn, there is a sign: "Croeso i Gymru". If you go...
South Shore Camino, Day One: Lunenburg to Mahone Bay
Lunenburg is so pretty, but so is Mahone Bay: colourful frame buildings, bright sky, sunlight on the harbour. Lunenburg has the Bluenose II and other tall ships, and excellent falafel. Mahone Bay might have falafel, too, but I’ll never know, because we’re all eating together tonight at the United Church, where we’re staying. We left … Continue reading South Shore Camino, Day One: Lunenburg to Mahone Bay →
• Resources for Vicarious Walking
Here's another selection of walking-related media to help you through this time of going nowhere. Audio Eve Phillips and Roxie Collins are co-hosts of Corporeal, a themed music show on Brum Radio. In a different lifetime Eve came on our Full Moon Walk and she told us about the show and in particular an episode […]
38. Simon Coleman and John Eade, eds., Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion
When I finished Ian Reader’s short introduction to pilgrimage as a field of inquiry, I decided to dive headfirst into the literature on the subject. My first stop: this 2004 anthology on mobility and pilgrimage, edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade. Coincidentally, as I was reading the essays collected by Coleman and Eade, my […]
