Anne Versailles a été ciseaux-pot-de-colle puis bio-géographe et aujourd’hui elle se dit géopoète. Depuis qu’elle a traversé les Alpes en trois mois de marche, elle porte toujours un sac à dos dans lequel il y a un carnet de notes, ses micros, un appareil photo-caméra. Elle marche, traverse des territoires et y glane des mots, des images et des sons. Puis, elle compose des paysages. Invitation sonore à voyager à travers quelques uns de ses paysages.
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Carte bavarde des Cités-Jardins / Chatty map from the “Garden city” (Brussels)
Two garden cities in south-east Brussels, nearing their 100th anniversary, are the focus of a project collecting resident interviews about local experiences. These French-language testimonies are mapped for online exploration or geolocated walking tours, initiated by sound artist Anne Versailles with the Maison de quartier des Cités-Jardins.
over borders #2
This post introduces a curated PDF collection of walking scores—photographic, text, and graphic—that explore walking as a method to challenge the objectification of environments and anthropocentric perspectives on place. Curated by Jez Riley French and Pheobe Riley Law, the collection will be available for free download from 1st July 2021.
Continent Rouge
Continent Rouge (2015) by Gigacircus is a locative installation and app created in collaboration with noTours that offers a transcultural artistic and anthropological experience centered on the Rarámuri rituals in Mexico. The project combines computer-controlled projections with a smartphone-based sonic narrative that overlays contemporary Tarahumara poetry and Artaud’s voice onto a guided walking route.
The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn―with its curious archive of photographs―records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit

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