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 more than 20 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.
The questions we are asking them to address in their 3-4 minute presentations are:
A) Who you are and what was your walking piece that you documented with a map?
B) Why you chose a map to document your piece?
C) The process of creating the map?
D) What were the plus points from having the map?
E) On reflection, what would you have done differently to improve on what you did, and why?
Walking artist presenters for this evening’s event are: David Haley, Lucy Furlong, Janette Kerr, Emily Artinian and Lin Charlston.
Map Scramble 2 will take pace on Wednesday 25 March with walking artist presenters: Marlene Creates, Ruth Broadbent, Idit Nathan, Martin Eccles, Barbara Lounder and Rachel Gomme; followed by Map Scramble 3 on Thursday 26 March with walking artist presenters: Tamsin Grainger, Hannah Stageman, Fiona Hooton, Bill Psarris, Elspeth Penfold, and Petra Johnson.
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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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