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SWS22 2022

The Wall

The Wall
Granton Harbour Breakwater, Edinburgh, UK
13 minutes
Free
English
Sound walk

A Sound Walk and Installation on the Western Breakwater, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh, Scotland.

You can locate this soundwalk and installation by taking the West Harbour Road, and turning onto Chestnut Street. There is a ‘Private’ sign. Turn left onto Hesperus Crossway, and go to the very end of the road.

Slip through the fence and walk forwards. It is a dead end and in front of you is The Wall.

During the past few years, place names have been changed, walls have been smoothed over, fittings removed, and ‘messy’ buildings have been redecorated so as to almost wipe out any hint of their former daily functions. The result is a gentrification and appropriation (in the name of regeneration), which erases most external reminders of the past. It must be remembered, though, that ‘the past’ was made by people, and many of those people still live in the area. Their memories are who they are; this past is a valuable part of their lives.

APA style reference

Grainger, T. (2022). The Wall. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-wall/

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the [video]flâneur

The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories, he does not write poems. He has only a video camera. He takes shots of the city; he takes shots of the “life” of the people of the city, sometimes he also shoots “himself” (…without camera moves, without zooming, without special lighting, with original sound, without permission); Later he chooses and combines the scenes, Installs and presents them online, offline, on site or off site, always under different contexts.

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