Hi Jen Misha Myers work sounds interesting - but this link requires a  
Lancaster University log-in

Hi Luis - I think most walks become  collective memory through their  
conversations as they are walking [I guess unless a silent soundwalk]

My collaborative guided walks are about collective memory. Usually I  
have a few "priming" points where a different person speaks about that  
place - from within the group or coming to the door to meet us, some  
planned in advance, some spontaneous. Those are primarily the spur for  
conversations among the group. And I am setting the conditions for  
people to take over.

For instance The Right to Live (2006) about the radical history of  
Camberwell. We had about 120 come, lots of whom had been involved with  
collective living and working in the area through squatting, social  
centres etc. As the walk went on it became a big conversation (and  
arguments) about their experiences of the places we passed. It went on  
for about 3 hours, well I left at that point, and people carried on in  
the pub. Possibly still there.

I'll be doing another one soon about squatting in Hackney. I imagine  
that will go on on for days....

Melissa

On 20 May 2011, at 14:00, Jen Southern 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  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
>
> 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
>>
>> Office EB1.14 Docklands Campus
>>
>> Telephone 020 8223 7622
>>
>>
>>
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