literature
Highlights
YOU — a letter to a stranger
YOU — a letter to a stranger is a sound installation and podwalk in Wergelandsparken, Kristiansand. Eight authors have each written and recorded a letter to a stranger, laid out as echoes across the park and scored by hours of improvised music.
Seasonal Slow – January 2020
Early in 2012 we moved from Dulwich to Greenwich – as one of our American friend joked ‘from one silent W neighbourhood to another’. Soon after moving we won a contract from Greenwich Healthy Living Service, part of the borough council, to create more than 100 walking and cycling routes centred on children and health centres
• Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Wolverhampton Literature Festival was a vibrant annual event celebrating literature, poetry, music, and the arts. In 2020, the festival partnered with OVERHEAR to commission ten local poets to write about ten beloved independent city venues in Wolverhampton. These poems were recorded and virtually “pinned” to their respective locations, allowing festival-goers to discover and collect them
Cracks on the Soundwalk
The soundwalk blog features evolving soundscape compositions made from recordings collected during the International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE) 2015 in Ghent. These audio walks, contributed to by participants, are designed for listening while walking through the city and conference venues.
• Walking Home: Soundwalk at Great Linford Manor Park
Launching our new audio anthology “The destiny of every walking man is to immerse himself in the panorama surrounding him, to the point of becoming one with it and, ultimately, to vanish”. Federico Castigliano Join us for a bracing Autumn walk with a difference, as we launch a new audio anthology! MK Lit Fest have collaborated
Poetry in Motion: The Emma Sheppard Walk
A literary guided walk by Frome collective Poetry in Motion to honour Emma Sheppard, a Victorian social reformer. Commissioned by LISTEN, A Season of Sound Art, hosted by Black Swan Arts and curated by Helen Ottaway. Saturday 31 August, 2019 10.00am Start: Fromefield House, Bath Rd, Frome, BA11 2HF, UK Free event but Booking essential – visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/listen-emma-sheppard-sound-walk-tickets-64616487654 The walk
• Sum Poasyum! – celebrating Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker, the cult novel by Russell Hoban first published in 1980, explores the topography of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Riddley walks across a futuristic East Kent, mapping a world that has been reduced by nuclear explosion to Iron Age levels of technology. A forager, gatherer of myths and pedestrian sense-maker, Riddley’s psychogeographical wanderings speak to
The spaces between the words – Practices of locative literature
Libraries of Walks, Shorelines, Haiku Encounter, Sauntering Verse, In a different LENS & International Analogio Festival locative literature projects An online panel with Stefaan van Biesen, Elspeth (Billie) Penfold, Andrew Stuck, Babak Fakhamzadeh, Lucy Jeffery, Sissy Papathanassiou and Geert Vermeire. Can we shape a (digital) literary form using the world around us? What happens to
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Granite Blessings of the Woman’s Stone: Clach Bhan
Three quarters of the way up a mountain in the rugged Cairngorms of rural Scotland is a site that was precious to women for generations. We walk this mountain to search for this site, exploring what significance it holds for the modern day.
Articles elsewhere
Elspeth Penfold 2020-10-03 12:30:00
Mapping : Locative media +Literature . Here some Saturday fun for those of you who like puzzles. Check out our map A Different LENS, linked below.1. Link authors to places listed in this image 2. See if you can work out the locations of the artworks us...
Künste im Gespräch geht spazieren
Das gemächliche Schlendern ohne bestimmtes Ziel ist eine Kulturtechnik mit Geschichte. Wie der Spaziergang die Literatur prägt, die Wahrnehmung verändert und warum spazieren auch zur Wissenschaft taugt, dem geht die Sendung „Künste im Gespräch” d...
