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Jenny Staff

Jenny Staff

 

Website of my art work, different projects and gallery of drawings and assemblages.

The focal point of my practice is the interplay of Imagination and Real, aiming to be Present in the Moment, through the creative act of Walking, during solo pilgrimages and collaborative performances. I translate my walking into a visible format using materials which have an inherent integrity, that spark and inspire touch and manipulation – natural materials and those with rich sensory qualities which have a visceral connection. My process based playful practice explores the role of nature, repetition, memory, chance and scale; creating as a reflective practice to explore the internal/external worlds that we inhabit.

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Chance

Collection · 19 items

collaborative art

Collection · 22 items

Nature

1 sub-collections · 164 items

Repetition

1 sub-collections · 8 items

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Journey Lines: Making or Breaking Places

Journey Lines is a discussion betwen Anthropologist Tim Ingold and artist Claudia Zeiske reflecting on her Slow Coast 500 walk along the entire 700 miles long North Sea coast of Scotland. It reflects on making or breaking of places through tourism.

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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.

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ojoVoz

Home of the ojoVoz platform, an open source tool for the collaborative creation of community memories

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Oika Spain

Oika Spain Project, for the development of ecological identity through art, technology and the exploration of nature. The project combines walks in nature, deep sensing, hammocks, mobile technology and VR.

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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