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Highlights
London Open Form Pavilion of Air
A floating roof of sound in London, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.
Recording the Unseen; recreating a lost city through audio narratives
John Beauchamp's soundwalk Unseen is set in Warsaw, and recalls hidden stories and lost sounds from places wiped off the map. John's piece is available on Josh Kopeček's Echoes, and received a honourable mention at Sound Walk September 2019. Here, John talks about his work.
Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44
Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising '44, developed with the Warsaw Rising Museum, commemorates key events of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation, focusing on battles near landmarks like the PAST telephone exchange and Prudential buildings. The series also addresses significant incidents including the assassination of Nazi official Franz Kutschera and the Wola Massacre, highlighting both acts of resistance and the brutal reprisals that followed.
Unseen
Unseen is an immersive soundwalk by Culture.pl that explores lost locations in Warsaw through binaural soundscapes and historical narratives. Each episode guides listeners to a specific spot, blending present-day acoustic environments with archival recordings and stories from the city’s erased sites. The series is accessible as a podcast and through the Echoes geolocative storytelling app.
Forced Walks: Honouring Esther
This project retraced a Nazi Death March route, walking from Frome to Bath in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen, and completing the original route in Germany in 2016 on the 71st anniversary. The walks included remote participants who identified and adapted historic death march routes for contemporary commemoration, with documentation gathered for exhibition.
The periphery of Birkenau
On the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation, the author completed a walking circumnavigation of the Birkenau camp by navigating the surrounding area, as no road fully encircles the site. This walk, undertaken during a public closure with restricted access and significant security, was originally streamed live on Facebook and is now compiled into a single video.
Articles elsewhere
Walk 147
Boudha at nightIt's cool at night, and there are familiar faces everywhere I walk in Boudha. At the stupa I meet friends from Mexico, Hong Kong, Poland, we stop to eat momos together, and share stories and hopes. We walk clockwise, together and apart, joining the street dogs who are always here.Location: Boudhanath, Kathmandu, NepalLength: 2 kmCompanions: severalDate: 11 June, 2024 [...]
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once.When I walked from my hotel the first time I had no idea what was hiding from me in plain view in the landscape. I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that my hotel, the Polin, carried the Yiddish name for Oswiecim. I didn’t know… Continue reading You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once →
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