over borders #2

over borders #1

Remote walking – walking with prompts

2021-07-06 18:00

Online

The pandemic challenged walking artists to engage with new forms and new media for their practice. Group walking was translated into online walking, allowing people around the globe to walk together. Prompts or "walking scores" facilitated pandemic walkers to explore within the limits of their walking spaces, often in surprising and new ways, individually or with other remote walkers. Online technologies permitted to listen into remote spaces, beyond physical reach in the pandemic.

The Secret Sound of Trees

Beechenhurst - Forestry England, Speech House Road, Coleford, UK

A 25 minute soundwalk, with narration, that can be listened to in any location - ideally in a forest.

A High Street Sound Walk in Whitefriargate, Hull

Whitefriargate, Hull, UK

over borders #2 (remote)

HUB Prespa

4 - 17 Jul, 2021

Online

Following on from ‘over borders #1’ (also available as a free download) we have curated a PDF collection of scores (photographic, text, graphic) that use the act of walking as a way to question the objectification of environments and the role of ‘stepping back’ from a human centric view of place.

Uncovering the history of a high street

16 Dec, 2021

Jez Riley French’s sound walk Breet Velvit Ake (‘Bright Velvet Wander’ in the Yorkshire dialect) evokes Whitefriargate’s history using a range of hidden, overlooked or usually inaudible sounds from the street.

Instamatic #6 Prague

Prague, Czechia

Instamatic # 8: Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Walk the Cloud

Naxos, Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, Greece

A series of parallel walks exploring the way from seclusion and destruction to playful movement and exchange under the open sky.

In Search of Lost Venues

In Search of Lost Venues captures the vibrant confluence of community and space over the history of Vancouver music by walking to lost venues with musicians who played there.

Through Topolo

Friúlí, Italy

A City Full of Stories

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Academy of Music's Open Academy department, The Connection at St Martin's

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

A City Full of Stories is a digital SoundWalk created by those experiencing homelessness in London and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It lasts 25 minutes, blending words and music to imagine the stories of the streets and buildings.