Map Scramble 1 – presenters David Haley (UK), Lucy Furlong (UK), Janette Kerr (UK) and Emily Artinian (US)
For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“.
There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum of Walking, has been gathering archival walking pieces for almost 10 years. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project, hosted a Confluence on ‘documenting walking art’ with guest Ernesto Pujol, and subsequently ran a Spanish language event to further discuss the outcomes of the original Confluence.
Prompted by the closing of the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library, we invited members of the Walking Artists Network to present and discuss why they choose maps to document their walking art. This invitation was taken up by 16 walking artists, and it is with pleasure that we are offering to begin with, 3 Map Scrambles as we have labelled them, for as many of these walking artists to present their map work.
The online events will each include 3-4 minute presentations by 4-8 walking artists followed by discussion. Owing to technical and time constraints and to create sufficient time for thoughtful discussion we have asked each of the presenters to either audio record themselves, or creating a narrated powerpoint or video, of no more than 4 minutes talking about their pieces and maps.
Attendees comments:
Wonderful, thanks so much to all 4 presenters for sharing their great projects and insights x
Thanks- lots to think about!
Thanks everyone – it’s been fascinating but I’ve got to go.
Enjoyed the discussion. Thanks all!
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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