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One way to acknowledge migration
Reading Geert Vermeire‘s latest newsletter, I was struck with how important walking art and walking artists have been in acknowledging those unfortunate people who have had to leave their homes, often migrating over vast distances, or switching to cultures unlike their own, learning new languages and how to get about day to day among people,
A Sonic Exploration of Memory, Death and Public Space
The sound walk The Graveyard Digression asks the question “What can a cemetery teach us?”, as well as others, in an approximately 30 minute long sound journey passing through St. Pauli Southern Cemetery in Malmö.
A thousand generations have led you to this point
Stories of Place, Community and Environment (SPACE) Walk, facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith, is an act of walking together with different knowledge holders and community change-makers to creatively explore the local landscape and consider future possibilities for farming, the environment, the community, and the wider region.
Weeds are Community
With her sound walk Weeds are Community, Lúcia Harley created an invitation to look closer at the organic fabric around us through weeds: plants you might overlook every day as they seek sanctuary in walls, reach up from drains and push through cracks in the pavement.
A Deep Dive into “Soundwalking, listening and contested histories”
In the audio paper Soundwalking, listening and contested histories, Joseph Young explores how sound art and specifically sound walking practices in the landscape can contribute to the discussion of contested histories through the creation of immersive sonic encounters.
Natural history for everyone
The London-based Natural History Museum has put together a sound walk for its new gardens, designed with blind and visually impaired audiences in mind. In it, you hear from scientists, staff and other experts, the stories contained within the gardens, as well as poems created by visually impaired young individuals.
Who is Mrs. Dalby?
In Mrs. Dalby and the Gravekeeper of Hatteras Island, Blake Pfeil takes the listener on a fantastical walk to the ruins of a seaside shanty, standing proudly on the edge of a graveyard overlooking the mighty Atlantic Ocean in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.