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Birling Gap

Birling Gap
Birling Gap, Eastbourne, UK

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Touching the liminal space between geographical marvel and the subtle signs of a tragic history, hidden within the landscape.

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Landscape

Collection · 351 items

liminality

1 sub-collections · 15 items

music

Collection · 96 items

place

Collection · 195 items

Related

walkingevent

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We meet the winners of the SWS22 Awards. They discuss their work and process, and tell us what inspired them.

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url

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This collaborative walking art project will investigate reconsiderations of place through the practices of Fuller, Hicklin and Hill exploring how physical and cultural histories influence connection to landscape.

walkingevent

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Join us for a three and a half mile sunset walk on the former plantation where Harriet Tubman rescued her three brothers from bondage. At the end of the walk, lanterns will be shared to remember the start of their walk to freedom.

kjohnston
url

Hedgeways

Creative writing inspired by nature, place and landscape. I’m Sarah Royston, a writer based at Anglia Ruskin University. My work is inspired by queer ecologies, folklore and the weirdness of ordinary landscapes.

walkingevent

Great North Wood walk-talk

Walk talk along the Great North Wood in South East London organised by Guardians Worldwide

Nic
post

To capture, reproduce, and deconstruct

Touching the liminal space between geographical marvel and the subtle signs of a tragic history, hidden within the landscape.

Tony Onuchukwu
Sound walk
An audio piece about the mythical landscape of Birling Gap – a wild cliffy landscape in East Sussex, UK

The piece centers on an incarnation of affect in relation to a certain space-time – a visit Isabella made to Birling Gap in East Sussex.

Birling Gap is a wild and cliffy landscape on the edge of East Sussex popular with walkers and hikers.

The protagonist of the piece, Isabella, travels there and is touched, consumed and irrevocably impacted.

Her travels around Birling Gap should be seen as an inner journey, which mirrors the repeated journeys she’s taken there. Like a lost traveller, within her practice, she is constantly looping back on herself, repeating, returning and rediscovering.

I wanted the music to touch on the liminal space between geographical marvel and the subtle signs of a tragic history hidden within the landscape, a sense of fascination and foreboding beneath the joyful and sunny surface.

This piece can be enjoyed whilst walking around the site, otherwise elsewhere, or whilst sitting or lying down in the privacy of your own home.

Birling Gap snippet

Copyright: Tony Onuchukwu

Credits

Hosted by: Isabella Bonner-Evans

APA style reference

Onuchukwu, T. (2022). Birling Gap. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/birling-gap/

One thought on “Birling Gap

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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