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Shinrin-Yoku – Forest Bathing Night Walk

National Arboretum Canberra
120 minutes
Free
$40

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A night walk involving multimedia projections and soundscapes.
This walk researches the development of eco-tourism models, for public engagement with creative industries and academic research into arborglyphs, or modified cultural trees. It is being run in association with the Arboreal Alterations Symposium, held by Australian National University and the University of Canberra 2023.

Forest bathing is part of a Japanese landscape aesthetic designed to inspire reflection and meditation. The key message of this aesthetic is the acceptance and celebration of impermanence, to enable the full enjoyment of life.
Participating Artists include – Dr Sally Clarke, Dr Tracey Benson, Jane Duong, Nicole Voevodin-Cash, Caroline Huff, Dr Ursula Frederick and Fiona Hooton.

For hundreds of years, people have believed cork trees, also known as Wishing Trees, had magical powers to bring good luck. Join a cohort of Localjinnis as we throw light into dark places, make walking drawings, and discover the forest’s little-known secrets. Come and explore the enchanted forest, behold the wondering moon, and share the magic of night in collective safety.

Credits

Artists – Dr Sally Clarke, Dr Tracey Benson, Jane Duong, Nicole Voevodin-Cash, Caroline Huff, Dr Ursula Frederick and Fiona Hooton.

Supported by University of Canberra, Canberra Art Biennial, and the National Arboretum.


Hosted by: Localjinni

APA style reference

Fiona Hooton (2022). Shinrin-Yoku – Forest Bathing Night Walk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/shinrin-yoku-forest-bathing-night-walk/

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hybrid flaneur/flaneuse

Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse has become a performative “orchestrator” of steps and technologies – of sensory and emotional encounters. It is this oscillation between the poetic, the socio-technological, the geographical and the emotional that shifts the meaning of flanerie and walking in the 21st century. Hybrid flaneur/flaneuse can be also described in line with the cultural and aesthetic trajectories of the 20th century ambulatory practices. Therefore, a hybrid flaneur/flaneuse could be a creative merging of the romanticised view of early flaneur, the radical tactics and political implications of psychogeography and the performative/site-oriented elements of Fluxus and Land Art – all considered through a wide range of embodied media, social and geographical sensitivities.

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