Dear all,
we would like to invite you to join the Walking Artists Network. Don't be misled by the title: we seek to include all who use walking as a creative and critical practice in any discipline, including but not limited to, architecture, archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, history, spatial design, urban design and planning, as well as those who define themselves as walking artists, or make work in the form of walks (again expansively and across the arts - music, literature, fine art, design, theatre, dance etc. etc.).
The network seeks to connect walkers internationally and across disciplines, to explore the social and cultural function(s) of walking as a dialogic, investigative and performative practice and to extend discussion of walking art as a medium with potential to interact with and inform a range of disciplinary perspectives in relation to notions of site, place, participation, mobility, communities, environment and histories
At present we have a website (http://walkingartistsnetwork.org/) and a jisc-mail discussion list (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan). The website includes a members directory (which we invite you to add your details to), a listing of relevant conferences, symposia and other events, and a bibliography, all of which is user-led: your contributions are needed to ensure that this grows and is useful. The discussion list currently has around 200 members and is used to announce events, ask questions, invite participation, advertise opportunities, promote projects and so on. The list is open to all, and operates unedited.
The development of the network has been financially supported by the University of East London, and the AHRC's research networks scheme, however we do not 'own' the network. It was established before the funding was obtained, and hopefully will continue long after the funds run out. We actively encourage ownership of the network by its members - including the use of its name when organising events, meetings and exhibitions.
Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested - including your mailing lists and networks, phd students, friends and colleagues.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Clare Qualmann and Mark Hunter
Institute for Performing Arts Development
School of Arts & Digital Industries
University of East London
East Building
University Way
London
E16 2RD
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2012 at
http://arlis.org.uk/
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