'Listening' sketchbook drawing |
'A Walk' sketchbook drawing. |
"Are You Listening? "
A circular walk that will offer the opportunity for us to consider our relationship with the environment, through small site specific interventions, poetry readings from the ecopoetics archive and a meditative knotting of ropes.
Knots a discussion , Margate
A walk in Battersea Park with slow listening for The Chelsea Fringe
at 2pm
meet at Pump House Gallery
meet at Pump House Gallery
I have been inviting community groups, artists, friends and writers to participate in the walk Are you Listening? through the arts group I established in 2016, Thread and Word .
Thread and Word is a walking practice that uses site and poetry to reflect on notions of time and timelessness, conscouisness, memory and rhythm through sited readings, documentary evidence and performative interventions.
Participants who collaborate in the walks with Thread and Word are encouraged to record their experience through a menemonic system of knots in ropes.
We have some wonderful writers and artists contributing to 'Are you Listening?' including work by:
Battersea park , photo Elspeth Penfold |
Billie Penfold Elspeth - Billie- Penfold
Julia Riddiouch Julia Riddiough
Susan Sciama. Susan Sciama
There are also contributions by friends and established walkers with Thread and Word, including, Virginia Fitch and Laura Shawyer.
These contributions of poetry and small interventions will invite us to listen carefully to the world around us.
An Invitation to bring sounds on a walk - As we walk we will be creatively recording a walking soundscape with Lucy Claire.
We are inviting participants to bring a sound ( recorded on a smartphone ) to the walk. The artist and composer Lucy Claire Lucy Claire is collaborating with us to record a soundscape of the walk. These sounds will be overlayed with sounds from the walk to create a sound piece which you will be able to access online.
If you sign up on eventbrite you will receive more details about this.
Although free numbers are limited and Ticketed https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-you-listening-listen-to-the-river-tickets-58716992104
"Flags after all are the prototype of political textiles"
(Fray: Art and Textile Politics
Bryan-wilson, Julia)
Aflag by Gillian Upton |
Flags made by Jane Bull who volunteers at The Work and Play Scrastore South London |
We look forward towelcoming you on this walk.
This walk has been supported by The Work and Play Scrapstore South London, The Chelsea Fringe , Pump House Gallery and the Enable Leisure and Culture Team at Wandsworth Council.
Note: This project takes its inspiration from Adam Chodzco’s Ghost and a performance piece by the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, Listen to the River. Cecilia Vicuña performed Listen to the River by the shores of The Mapocho river in Chile during a drought. Her work references climate change, the need to respect the environment as a living creative force and the responsibility we all carry in us to look, think about and consider our relationship to the natural world around us.
Originally made for the 2010 Whitstable Biennial, Ghost by Adam Chodzco is a kayak; a sculpture as the ves- sel, a coffin, a bed and a camera rig. Measuring 22ft in length Ghost was created to accommodate a rower in the back and a passenger at the front. Separated from the rower by a dome in the deck of the kayak, the passenger lies flat in the vessel– at the level of the water – with their head slightly raised. This viewpoint offers a unique perspective of the river and its banks, causing the passenger to consider their relationship with the surrounding landscape.
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