Rural
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Marching for Justice in the Fields
In 1966, farmworkers marched 300 miles from Delano to Sacramento to protest low wages, unsafe working conditions, and the denial of union rights. Their action drew national support, pressured growers and officials, and helped secure the first farmworker union contract.
The Slow Walkers of Whycocomaugh
Thomas’s Slow Walkers projects explore how moving at a slower pace shapes relationships, attention, and connection. Originating in the Whycocomagh Skillshare, the slow walks invite shared experience across varied communities and locations.
JMW Turner in North Shields/South Shields
Referencing JMW Turner’s Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight we will explore the contrast between the rural & industrial. Composer Peter Coyte, choreographer Dora Frankel, musician Martin Elliott & one dancer TBC will be making a gentle ‘dérive’ walk recording sound & responding to the landscape with movement & gestures with the purpose of gathering material
Discovering creativity while walking Britain’s Postal Paths
Alan Cleaver is an author from Whitehaven, Cumbria UK whose latest book, The Postal Paths, looks at the routes walked by rural postmen and postwomen from the 1850s until the 1970s (vans are now used for all delivery routes in Britain) and the lives of the posties who walked them. Alan will be on a
This Must Be the Place
Sarah Rodigari’s This Must Be the Place explored rural utopian visions in Hopetoun/Ravensthorpe through walking interviews, culminating in Hearsay, a performance linking past narratives and speculative futures amid climate and regional challenges.
0.68mi Walk Around a Tree in Maplecrest NY, USA 2024
In this walking art piece, a simple yet evocative action unfolds over 18 minutes and 20 seconds, transforming a rural Catskills landscape into a meditation on connection, presence, and the changing dynamics of perception. The work takes the viewer on a journey around a tree in Maplecrest, NY, using the act of walking as both an artistic practice and a means of creating an evolving relationship with the environment.
• A Conversation for Robot and Fly
A Conversation for Robot and Fly is a three-movement sound work combining field recordings from rural Leicestershire, overheard conversations, and sounds from the Birmingham School of Art building. This version is presented as a geolocated sound piece accessible via the Echoes App at the original site on Margaret Street, Birmingham.
Collision & Conflict
Collision & Conflict is a geolocated sound walk along Hadrian’s Wall national trail featuring nine artistic commissions in song, music, sound, story, spoken word, and prose. Commissioned by Green Croft arts in December 2020, the works explore historical, archaeological, and environmental conflicts linked to the diverse communities that built and lived along Hadrian’s Wall.
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A People’s History Chapter 4
A MISCELLLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Four A few short years after our walk along Stroud’s High Street in the previous chapter, William Cobbett made his way through Stroudwater, as recorded in...
Peter Hutchinson, Foraging (1970)
Basically it is an account in photographs and text (there was also a film) of a six-day backpacking hike through the Snowmass Wilderness of Colorado. The expedition became for him “one of those short times that subjectively is greater than a lifetime.” He accounts of the trip in Art in America in 1972, and later […]
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