Re: 'recollection walking performance'
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 London’s 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]">[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-grief-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 life’s journey through a labyrinth.
There is also trauma work being undertaken by the London Fire Brigade (I think that’s 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]">[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:32:22 +0100
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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=211908337139423657896.00049cd45aca37c5026f5&t=h&z=11 <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=211908337139423657896.00049cd45aca37c5026f5&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]">[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]">[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%7Econtent=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 performances’. 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-centred’ 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. Sotelo, PhD
Lecturer, University of East London
Community Arts Practice Programme
Institute for the Performing Arts Development
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