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Rearview Walking Stick

Rearview Walking Sticks
Don Valley Brick Works Park, Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Environmentalism

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Yielding Stone

In Yielding Stone, Orozco rolls a body-weight plasticine sphere through New York, letting it gather street marks. The ball’s imprints, like metal-grating grooves, stand in for his body, emphasizing movement, process, and how action becomes visible in sculptural form.

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Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Abstract submission deadline 15 July 2026 Recommended topics: Shared memory of experiences and knowledge Participatory research and practice as testimony of (the) memory Community-generated memory … Source: Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

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WALC Online Course Session 6 : Collective Memory Walk (Micro-Project)

The session introduces oral history, storytelling and “walking archives” as decolonial and sensory methods. Participants design and facilitate a Collective Memory Walk, engaging local people and generating material for the WALC toolkit.

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Assembly

Collection · 1 items
Sub-collection

Environmentalism

Sub-collection · 25 items
Sub-collection

sculpture

Sub-collection · 44 items

Related

Walking piece

Marsh Ruins

Beverly Buchanan’s Marsh Ruins (1981) uses tabby and concrete to evoke southern vernacular architecture, memorializing Black presence in Georgia. The mounds poetically witness history, embracing erosion and impermanence to honor resilience and defiance.

Beverly Buchanan
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In Yielding Stone, Orozco rolls a body-weight plasticine sphere through New York, letting it gather street marks. The ball’s imprints, like metal-grating grooves, stand in for his body, emphasizing movement, process, and how action becomes visible in sculptural form.

Gabriel Orozco
post

Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Abstract submission deadline 15 July 2026 Recommended topics: Shared memory of experiences and knowledge Participatory research and practice as testimony of (the) memory Community-generated memory … Source: Submissions – Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference 2026

Andrew Stuck
walkingevent

WALC Online Course Session 6 : Collective Memory Walk (Micro-Project)

The session introduces oral history, storytelling and “walking archives” as decolonial and sensory methods. Participants design and facilitate a Collective Memory Walk, engaging local people and generating material for the WALC toolkit.

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The Rearview Walking Sticks combine tree branches and car mirrors to disrupt ordinary walking. Playful yet cumbersome, they make participants reflect on movement, memory, and perception, turning walking through the landscape into a participatory, performative artwork.

“The Rearview Walking Sticks are made from large tree branches and discarded rear-view car mirrors. The walking sticks playfully suggest the ability to see behind oneself on a path. As a walking stick they imply usefulness, but are ultimately ridiculous or burdensome as the students maneuvered between looking forward and reflecting back in space and time. The paths in the Brickworks are human-made wooden boardwalks and well-groomed gravel paths and as such the need for a large walking stick seemed a misplaced walking behavior, further emphasizing the students’ own displacement on the paths and in the Canadian landscape.”

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Stephanie Springgay & Sarah E. Truman (2019): Counterfuturisms and speculative temporalities: walking research-creation in school, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2019.1597210

APA style reference

Whidden, E. (2007). Rearview Walking Stick. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/rearview-walking-stick/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

driftsinging

Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.

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