About the theme for World Listening Day and Made of Walking meetings Summer 2017, after several e-mails regarding the source of the quote...
Pauline Oliveros was asked to devise a theme for World Listening Day 2017.
“Listening to the Ground” is what she provided last October, along with the prompts: “Sometimes we walk on the ground, sometimes on sidewalks or asphalt, or other surfaces. Can we find ground to walk on and can we listen for the sound or sounds of ground? Are we losing ground? Can we find new ground by listening for it?”
Pauline Oliveros passed away in November 2016, the month after she wrote this quote.
World Listening Day 2017 will be dedicated to her and this theme, as as well the two two separate but conceptually related Made of Walking meetings/events.
One event will be in La Romieu (France), 27 August-1 September, with an important focus on sharing walks and meetings between pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela and art walking practitioners, as announced earlier on WAN.
The other event will be 15-13 July in Delphi (Greece) including World Listening Day 2017 (July 18), through a collaboration with the Australian sound artists / composers Ros Bandt and Jon Drummond.
Made of Walking in Delphi will be initiated by a "key note" performance - workshop where the participants will create, together with the artists above, "a harp of walkers" (walkers as/with strings) and move around, resonating the landscape. Starting from Delphi but travelling through Europe in sound and walking.
This performance will be surrounded by other walking actions in the Delphi landscape and surrounding villages, next to a seminar, based on an open call to be published very soon.
Ongoing open call for La Romieu
in English: http://www.themilena.com/pdf-files-projects-the-milena-principle/open-call-la-romieu-english.pdf
In French: http://www.themilena.com/pdf-files-projects-the-milena-principle/open-call-la-romieu-french.pdf
In Portuguese: http://www.themilena.com/pdf-files-projects-the-milena-principle/open-call-la-romieu-portugese.pdf
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