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Tales from the Towpath

mayacelium [Maya Chowdhry]

mayacelium [Maya Chowdhry]

Mayacelium interdisciplinary artist: sound art, site-specific in (United Kingdom) 
Copyright: Martin Chester
Tales from the Towpath
Tales from the Towpath
Headphones advised Self-guided
Manchester, UK
30 minutes
Free

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10 sub-collections · 252 items

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Of stone and water

Both a historical and imaginative reconstruction of a hill in Ingleborough.

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Walking piece
The online version of the "Tales from the Towpath" immersive story experience, originally created for Manchester Literature Festival 2014, allows users worldwide to explore Manchester’s waterways and historic buildings through an interactive map. The project weaves together hidden, lost, and imagined lives of the city, presenting evolving mythologies about the past and possible futures related to water and nature.

This is the armchair version of the popular ‘Tales from the Towpath immersive story experience created for Manchester Literature Festival 2014.

You can use the map on the website to experience the trail online from anywhere in the world!

Travel to Manchester’s waterways and historic buildings via episodes of Tales from the Towpath. Discover hidden, lost and imagined lives of the city. New mythologies are created and, whether you believe them or not, thrive.

Lives intersect like flotsam, like the past that washes up again and again. Two futures are possible: one where water is at risk and the world turns upside down, or one where nature proves her power.

Thanks to the amazing 34sp for sponsoring our web hosting:
https://www.34sp.com/

Maya Chowdhry, Michelle Green, Sarah Hymas and Helen Varley Jamieson collaborated to create the piece.

Don't drink the lies!

Copyright: Mish Green

Credits

Hosted by: Tales from the Towpath

APA style reference

[Maya Chowdhry], m. (2014). Tales from the Towpath. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/tales-from-the-towpath/

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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