transformation
Highlights
DOLL CHAIN
To investigate symbols of connection and to question performance art as a form of peaceful protest, IGUANA Collaborative performed DOLL CHAIN in Art in Odd Places: Dress festival, with 6 walkers, wearing identical robes connected at the sleeves. We chose two fabrics named “safety orange” for the robe and “flame” for the pants to explore how high-visibility orange represents protection in contemporary society and elevates a sense of caution or importance around one body.
Make every yesterday a dream of happiness
Jenny Staff hosted the "Invisible to Visible" workshop, transformed into a video recording by Kel Portman. The work symbolizes Jenny's transformative pilgrimage in Lancashire, aiming to reconnect with herself and her surroundings. The piece involves collaborative walking, drawing, poetry, and meditation, culminating in a powerful and reflective experience.
Livingmaps Live – A festival of Creative Counter-Mapping
Join us on the 10th, 11th and 12th of September as Livingmaps goes live for a festival-style weekend of creative counter-mapping. Inspired by the idea of festival as a place away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life, a transformative space where people go to encounter new experiences and to dream and re-imagine different
Sonic Blooming
Sonic Blooming is a guided soundwalk at the International Rose Test Garden featuring a composition created from biodata sonification of plant electrical impulses combined with field recordings from the site. Participants access the soundscape via a web link while exploring the garden, with an interactive website allowing users to upload their own recordings to be integrated into the evolving composition.
Thing of Shape to Come
A piece by Tony Vieira & Caitlin Fisher. In a world disoriented by radical transformations of the physical and social landscape, Elizabeth is struggling to understand her truth. Being in love with something real is sometimes ___________ than being in love with a fantasy.
Sonic Origami
Invented by the performer and musician Ana Berkenhoff it is a live experience that transforms the visual of a place into audio. The audience and the performer walk together through an area. The audience will hear a mix of recordings (from the place) and live singing about what is there to see.
Articles elsewhere
Simon Pope, “Walking Transformed: The Dialogics of Art and Walking”
Before I start reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I thought I would tackle one of the articles from my giant stack of things I thought I should read. This time it’s Simon Pope’s “Walking Transformed: The Dialogics of Art and Walking,” published in C Magazine seven years ago. Pope begins by suggesting that “[t]he recent history of … Continue reading Simon Pope, “Walking Transformed: The Dialogics of Art and Walking” →
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation”
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s essay, “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation,” begins with her version of a story about a seven-year-old girl discovering the sweetness of maple sap by watching a red squirrel. It’s one of her favourite stories “because nothing violent happens in it” (6); instead, the girl, Kwezens, “is met with very … Continue reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation” →
How to Incorporate Archival Material into Your Museum’s Audio Guide
Create museum audio guides that seamlessly blend past and present through audio storytelling (Case Study: The Panorama of the City of New York and the 1964–65 World’s Fair at the Queens Museum).The Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum....
