senses
Highlights
Wednesday After Work Walks: Loved Up London
Walking beside the river, with views of the Palace of Westmisnter, the sun setting, and the sound of the traffic – that last bit cannot be right? It is true, traffic noise and the smell of diesel are the two most intrusive things to ruin a romantic walk – that’s what participants on the Loved Up
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Livin’ My Life Like It’s Golden (Gate Bridge) – the performance
This post documents a spiritually and artistically framed sense walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on July 4, 2021, marking the author's daughter’s 26th birthday and exploring themes of personal restoration and eco-spirituality. The performance uses walking as a vehicle for mother-daughter connection, self-exploration, and metaphorical resistance to worldly responsibilities.
en route
en route is a pedestrian-based live art event that uses audio, mobile communication, and urban environments to guide participants through city streets and back-alleys. The experience combines narrative, sound, and participant observations to explore multiple perspectives on the city and personal perception.
Making Connection: Merri Creek sensewalk
Extend your senses and develop new appreciations of Merri Creek on an 'experience walk' that combines the arts and sciences. Using listening and embodiment exercises and field observations, we will gain more appreciation of how humans and nature interact.
Walking Journal
As part of the ecological system that is nature, we are supposed to let our consciousness wander to both the exterior and interior of our mind, receive certain things from nature, and give others back to her. What is it that we can sense and learn through these attempts to communicate with the various forms
Slow walk listening and the sonic art of breath
Slow walk listening and the sonic art of breath / deep listening® text scores of Pauline Oliveros with Anne Bourne Take the ferry to Hanlan’s Point from Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. Make your way to Gibraltar Point Lighthouse After extreme slow walk together towards the south shore, self guided listening, and the collective exploration of
Walking pieces
Articles elsewhere
Auto-graphy
The shared auto in Bhubaneswar is a self-evidently polyglot space than any other place in the city, with the possible exception of a general class railway compartment. You also hear stories, like that of the battering, that you would rarely hear elsewhere. What is it about the enclosed space of a shared auto rickshaw that invites this willingness to expose oneself? I do not know. … Continue reading Auto-graphy →
Prompts and Update for February First Sunday
Hello everyone As promised here is the First Sunday theme, this is for any and all loiterers to use whether or not you are able to join us at Mayfield. The in person event is now at capacity so apologise for those who wished to be there in person a...
Skin and the street: Interrelations
Text: Bill Psarras © 2014 French philosopher Michel Serres (1985: 3) describes the skin as the ‘variety of our mingled senses‘. Yet for him touch is quite significant as the linking sense with the world around us. Indeed, touch and the haptic experience (hands, feet) connects the subject with the surroundings, making apparent the very personal “I” […]
Events
Hush, Hush…
Celebrating Creativity in London’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week Creative adventures in listening to London from secret locations. What does it mean to listen to the buildings, listen to the neighbourhood, listen to the surroundings? Individually and as a group, walking partly in silence, you will explore how your sense of hearing is embodied and experience collective
• 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.
• Sound Walks by aifoon
A Sound Walk is a blindfolded listening walk in which you explore the surroundings with your ears. Experience the sound composition of the city with amplified senses! Be amazed at how you pick up specific sounds to which we usually pay little attention because they get lost in the general soundscape.
Awareness Walk (remote)
When we are walking with awareness, what asks to be witnessed? What does the walk as an interaction between our body, mind, and the terrain ask us or ask of us? The pandemic has tended to keep us closer to home, in one place, more local and more aware of our locality. We are always
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