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Hi Luis This is maybe a bit of a tangent, but you might also be interested in the work of Amy Sharrocks, who has led a number of walks in London following the route of Londonıs lost/underground rivers a sort of collective ancestral, rather than personal, remembering. And Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre also led a series of night walks as part of her residency at Acme Southwark last year, themed around different relationships with location and the night (the residency also included a project of community remembering of 1970s political activist Olive Morris). Both invited participants to share in a conversational process of creating the walk/remembering. Best wishes Rachel On 22/05/2011 21:35, "Andrew Stuck" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear All > > Sue Pedley, an Australian artist, has undertaken a number of walks following > routes of refugees in Vietnam / Cambodia and gathering recollections from > them: http://www.eyelight.com.au/sue_pedley/pages/bio.html > > The key area to investigate I would guess is bereavement walks of which there > are quite a few examples one of the best is from Tasmania: > http://www.hospicesouthtas.com/pages/bereavement-support--walking-through-grie > f-support-group.php > > There is quite a lot of work also being done in the hospice movement, > especially in the USA, where those receiving palliative care and their > families are invited to metaphorically walk their lifeıs journey through a > labyrinth. > > There is also trauma work being undertaken by the London Fire Brigade (I think > thatıs right), on sharing memories of traumatic incidents, and bringing this > out through walking then again I might have confused this with a 9/11 > episode. > > My personal experience was my stag weekend, when accompanied by 11 male > friends I walked from Great Bedwyn through Savernake Forest to Marlborough! > > Kind regards, Andrew > Talkingwalking.net > > > From: rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Walking Artist's Network <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:32:22 +0100 > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: 'recollection walking performance' > > Kiaora all, thought I'd mention and in reply to this email especially that > myself and a colleague are performing a walk next week as a part of the PSI > conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. > > You can find a description and the online stage here (a Facebook event): > > https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=212893312059215 > > Please join the event and follow us/participate online if you have the time. > > For the performance we are looking for people to add their own experiences of > different waterways they have been or are connected to in different ways. > During the performance (over the course of about 27 km and 7 hours or so) we > will post updates to Facebook, and invite people to add their own updates. We > are also asking people to walk with us, either the whole way, or by finding us > along the way. Their stories and experiences will be added to the mix to > create a multi-layered, sensorial performance of a part of a river. > > We are walking the path as described by this map: > http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=21190833713942365789 > 6.00049cd45aca37c5026f5&t=h&z=11 > <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=2119083 > 37139423657896.00049cd45aca37c5026f5&t=h&z=11> > > Awesome to hear about others collective walks and performed geographies. > > Rachel. > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Myers, Misha <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: >> Hi Jen, Thank you for mentioning my article in Mobilities. I'm actually an >> artist and member of the network. >> >> Luis, the article talks about my project 'way from home' which involved >> walks with refugees that facilitated their stories and memories of a place >> they considered home in the past and perceptions of a >> place they are inhabiting now. The article looks at the project as a method >> of collaborative knowledge production, method of mobilities research and >> spatial aesthetics. It includes a section on collective memory. >> >> There is a further article written about the method used in way from home' >> and applied to another project by ONeill and Hubbard in Visual Studies issue >> on Walking and Ethnography. >> >> And my website is <http://www.homingplace.org> www.homingplace.org >> <http://www.homingplace.org> >> >> . Hope this is helpful. >> >> Best wishes >> Misha >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 20 May 2011, at 14:08, "Jen Southern" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Luis >>> >>> Do you know the work of Misha Myers - a sociologist who has worked with >>> artists and walking, particularly with walking and recollection. >>> this paper was in Mobilities Journal, Vol 6, Issue 2, 2011 >>> Walking Again Lively: Towards an Ambulant and Conversive Methodology of >>> Performance and Research >>> <http://www.informaworld.com.ezproxy.lancs.ac.uk/smpp/content%7Edb=all%7Econ >>> tent=a935306584%7Efrm=titlelink> by Misha Myers >>> >>> I don't remember if I ever told you about my piece 'Surface Patterns: Audio >>> Tours' & 'Walking Tours' - where I walked with and recorded 10 people >>> recalling Huddersfield, some who had known the town for 65 years, others for >>> only 3 months. <http://www.theportable.tv/audiotours.html> >>> http://www.theportable.tv/audiotours.html >>> >>> I'm sure there are lots more - I'll mail if they come back to me. >>> >>> hope things are going well >>> >>> Jen >>> >>> >>> >>> On 20 May 2011, at 13:16, Luis C Sotelo wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Dear WAN members, >>>> >>>> I am investigating pieces that involve walking as a means for enabling >>>> process of collective memory among walker-participants. I call those >>>> projects recollection walking performancesı. The pieces I am interested in >>>> are different from those where an artist leads an autobiographical walk and >>>> tells participants stories linked with specific places. I am more >>>> interested in practices that are participant-centredı in the sense that >>>> the walk is for the participant to recall and share memories. In >>>> recollection walking performances, as I see them, the participant becomes >>>> the recollection performer. I would be very thankful if you could suggest >>>> any examples, articles, books, blogs, etc related with this topic. Does the >>>> term evoke any work in particular to you? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> Luis C. 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