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Sound walk SWS24 2024

Borderline: Desert woman in Arivaca

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Arivaca, AZ, USA
45 minutes
Free

Belonging

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Borderline

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Nature

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place

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Belonging

Collection · 12 items
Sub-collection

Borderline

Sub-collection · 14 items

Nature

1 sub-collections · 203 items

place

Collection · 201 items
In Episode 4 of Lowlines we follow the threads to the La Gitana bar in Arivaca, the brittle dirt of a huntress’s land, discover an abandoned halfway house, a coven of new wave desert women in a secret bar at the back of a store - and then gravitate further down to the border to get up close with The Wall.

I’m looking for a desert woman, someone who is totally in tune with this powerful landscape and who might help me tune into its great vastness a little bit more. I hear in a Tucson cafe that Arivaca is ground zero for such women. I head down there – almost all the way to the border – and start asking around town for a desert woman. Who I end up spending time with is a long way from what I had imagined but who fills me with all kinds of ideas about what it is to belong to a place, to know it – and for it to know you.

Credits

Petra Barran, Lina Prestwood (Scenery Studios), Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts)

APA style reference

Barran, P. (2024). Borderline: Desert woman in Arivaca. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/borderline-desert-woman-in-arivaca/

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

Added by Lucy Frears
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