Walking Pieces

Soundwalkscape November

My rule for this project is to take a walk on the first Monday of each month in 2023, wherever I happen to be. This month I walked to and through MOMA- the Museum of Modern Art in New York. https://soundcloud.com/ivorringham/soundwalkscape-november

Drowning Out the Noise: An Experiment in Sonic Ethnography

University of Edinburgh, Northwestern University

An eighteen channel sonic ethnographic installation consisting of binaural-recorded walking interviews about everyday music with queer individuals throughout their daily walking and traveling routines in their neighborhoods.

‘Invisible to Visible” by Jenny Staff

Jenny Staff’s walk: Invisible to Visible A video of the re-enactment of a pilgrimage walk made in Lancashire, England, that took place in a Greek village square and which replicated her 19273 paces.

Walking the Line

Participants were invited to start to walk as if to their homes, following as straight a line as possible. Prompts were given that predetermined stopping and reflective points based on Fibonacci sequences. As artists came from Australia, the USA, Greece and the UK, their routes led off in very different directions.

The Beads of Gresham Street

Walkative Project

A speculative walk through the historic City of London led by a collection of glass beads that spark narratives not just of the Roman bead workshop excavated nearby, but the history of craftmanship, material and trade in the area. By combining walking art with traditional crafted objects Katy Gillam-Hull creates new tactile ways to encounter material, time and place, a kind of material time travel.

Crossing the Limits Prespa / Grammos / Mytilene / Thermi / Sikinos / Marousi / Athens The 138 kilometers of Limits

For over four months I walked 138 kilometers in five different sites in Greece in an effort to discover the Greek Landscape in its totality and redefine it.

Walking with Toddlers

‘Walking with Toddlers’ is a comic audio play about the joys and frustrations of going for a walk with a young child, co-written and co-produced by Angie Belcher (writer, director, comedian, and facilitator) and Eleanor Rycroft (Senior Lecturer in Theatre and gender historian). It uses the juxtaposition of an idealised walk imagined via ‘Minarra’s Mindful Mummies Podcast’ and the reality of walking with a toddler, to consider how care-giving can create both obstructions and opportunities when trying to get from A to B.

Walking the questions

A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.

Sentinel Species

WAC

People have long observed animals for signs of threatening hazards or evidence of impending environmental threats. These species, called sentinel species, are of great importance not only in “perceiving and bringing” the first signs and symptoms of the “climate crisis”, but also in “anticipating” it as sentinels. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Sentinel Species Walking Encounter reverses the sentinel roles of humans and birds. Humans will enact the role of sentinels for the endangered bird species living in the area. Choosing Prespa as a location for the proposed Performance/Installation is no coincidence as Prespa is an environmentally protected area.

Walk Me there

Compass Live Art

This project was addressing important themes of migration and home-finding via intimate use of walking as an empowering and explorative practice and space for an encounter and sharing.

Wheels Off

WAC

At a geographic and geologic boundary, hikers symbolically disable their vehicles. The rubber wheels are then used to first draw, then erase, a mountain snowcap or glacier. Melting “waters” tumble joyously downhill.

The Stranger

The Stranger is a performance, an object, a walking piece, and a system of facilitating self discovery using the landscape and the objects around it.