22nd October 2016
Notes from Talks
SPIRALS- Recurring sign that binds the universe together
WALKING:
- Travel journals
- Landmarks, uniting devices
- Walking stands for living
- Swedenborg: 'walking and journeying purvey mans movements'
- Walking and thinking: walking as inspirational - too romantic and old fashioned view of connecting with the natural
Will Rowlandson
IMAGINAL LANDSCAPES
'The Holloway' - romanticising and anthropomorphising nature. Good speaker but nostalgic narrative!
Ken Worpole
AGAINST OBLIVION
'An Essex Journey', photographer Jason Orton
Photographs always make us reflect on the past as they are always necessarily images of the past.
Utopian settlements in England/ Land Colonies e.g. Silver End, Marylandsea.../ Experiments in alternative living
Discussed the IMMEDIACY OF SOUND (relates to Janet Cardiff)
METROPOLITAN TRAILS: GR2013
Marseille – a city on the edge/ the margins
Group of artists developed a trail and accompanying guidebook
Around the Bear Sea – largest inland sea in Western Europe
Heritage as narrative – intertwined histories (Doreen Massey
in For Space– space as a complex meeting
point of histories, not as a simple surface)
Walking and landscapes as complex:
- Creating narratives
- ‘Art as an experience’
- ‘The museum is the territory itself’
- ‘Getting lost in complexity’
Tension between urban planning and perceived ‘nature’
GR2013 as an experiment in dematerialised urban planning,
made to create narratives
METROPOLITAN TRAILS – Created an official national
federation trail in Marseille:
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Hiking in the city
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Connecting with the Anthropocene epoch
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Discovering our own cities
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Re-framing the city as a space to be explored
http://www.metropolitantrails.org/index
