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SWS23 2023

Listening to the Port

Listening to the Port
Post Office Projects, Kaurna Country, Saint Vincent Street, Port Adelaide SA, Australia
40 minutes
Free

adelaide

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City

Sub-collection · 39 items

Traditional

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start to listen (dutch)

A toolbox for teachers and pupils to grow in their listening website is in Dutch. START TO LISTEN consists of two panels: a listening moment and a class conversation. For this website, we made a [growing] list of fragments. The intention is to listen to one fragment in class at a time [in the suggested order] and then discuss it during a class conversation.

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The London Ear: sound-themed guided walk

Listen your way round the City of London on a Sunday morning, and find out about its fascinating sounds – past, present and future. A guided walk like no other, The London Ear explores the City of London through the medium of sound. The walk blends real-time listening with stories about sounds from the City’s

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Canal Listening Walk: Kensal Rise to Stonebridge Park

We will walk and listen together along the canal, from Kensal Rise to Stonebridge Park, where we will end up in a cafe and have a chat. This route is 3.4 miles, but we’ll walk slowly, so it will take about two and a half hours.  The idea is to walk in silence, but we

Andrew Stuck
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Contested developments in Peckham: A Practical Listening walk

Listening walk through housing estates that face redevelopment

Andrew Stuck

adelaide

Collection · 18 items
Sub-collection

City

Sub-collection · 39 items

Traditional

Collection · 8 items

Related

url

start to listen (dutch)

A toolbox for teachers and pupils to grow in their listening website is in Dutch. START TO LISTEN consists of two panels: a listening moment and a class conversation. For this website, we made a [growing] list of fragments. The intention is to listen to one fragment in class at a time [in the suggested order] and then discuss it during a class conversation.

walkingevent

The London Ear: sound-themed guided walk

Listen your way round the City of London on a Sunday morning, and find out about its fascinating sounds – past, present and future. A guided walk like no other, The London Ear explores the City of London through the medium of sound. The walk blends real-time listening with stories about sounds from the City’s

Andrew Stuck
walkingevent

Canal Listening Walk: Kensal Rise to Stonebridge Park

We will walk and listen together along the canal, from Kensal Rise to Stonebridge Park, where we will end up in a cafe and have a chat. This route is 3.4 miles, but we’ll walk slowly, so it will take about two and a half hours.  The idea is to walk in silence, but we

Andrew Stuck
walkingevent

Contested developments in Peckham: A Practical Listening walk

Listening walk through housing estates that face redevelopment

Andrew Stuck
Listening to the Port uses composed soundscapes, ambient music, and descriptive narration, to explore the history and speculative future of Port Adelaide, focusing on the ecological impact of colonialism and the daily impact of climate change.

What will life be like in Port Adelaide in the year 2100? What does the future hold for us?

Listening to the Port is a Speculative Soundwalk.

You are invited to navigate the city at your own pace, listening to soundscape compositions that imagine the history and possible future of the region. Using your own device and headphones, you embody your future existence in Port Adelaide, listening and imagining what the future might bring.

Developed by OSCA (Open Space Contemporary Arts) Artist in Residence Keira Simmons during the first stage of their residency at Post Office Projects Studios. Supported by Carclew.

This project was made on the ancestral lands of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains. I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of this country, to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. I acknowledge and pay respect to Kaurna spiritual beliefs and connections to land, which are of continuing importance to the living Kaurna people today.

Trailer - Listening to the Port

CC-BY-NC: Keira Simmons

Credits

Located at Post Office Projects Gallery and Studios
Funded by a Carclew Fellowship
Supported by Open Space Contemporary Arts
Supported by Dr. Jesse Budel

APA style reference

Simmons, K. (2023). Listening to the Port. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/listening-to-the-port/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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