Physical reaction to music

Physical reaction to sound - foot tapping. Can i use this when creating my drawings?  Layer recording of ambient journey sounds with foot tapping. Demonstrates how experience is mediated by headphones- tapping corresponds to an soundtrack that isn't revealed. Like watching someone listen to music without knowing what the song is. This rhythm can then begin to be reflected in the drawings.

Lisa Traxler

Came across this artist looking at the RWS Show 'London: A Sense of Place' at Bankside Gallery.

'Remembered Experience', Lisa Traxler

Work concerned with
- space
- 2D/3D
- gesture

Walking and taking photographs as a thought process.

Landscape/ sound/ experience

'Noise of the Landscape (Part 2)', Lisa Traxler

Each print acts as research for the next

Drawing Connections

My most recent work [St George's Circus, below] puts me in mind of two works from my back catalogue. 

From a portrait project completed in first year of my BA. Painted whilst listening to an interview with the subject, who loved music, which is why I decided to focus on visualizing sound, which ultimately became a visualization of a conversation.

'Hampstead Road', Screen Print, Created for Slade Print Fair 2014. 

Photographed and deconstructed an alcove I used to walk past every day on my way to work. 

Deconstructed to reflect my experience of it:
- broken up by angular shafts of light
- grafitti
- enclosed and dominated by horizontal lines






And which went to inspire early 'movement drawing' at beginning of MA

What type of space...

The metropolitan trails project suggests we widen the parameters of the so-called 'urban'. That in a new era, with an updated definition of nature the gap between the natural and the man-made has narrowed; the two are now intertwined. Does this need to be considered negatively? Is it a distraction to focus on 'landscape' in my practice with the assumption that that only includes the 'natural' world? My definition of landscape is widening, a return to use of the word space to describe our surroundings, free from above categorizations. 

(Raymond Williams, Keywords: Nature)

Deep Topographies: Inspiral London’s explorations into other spaces

Swedenborg House
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:

-          Hiking in the city

-          Connecting with the Anthropocene epoch

-          Discovering our own cities

-          Re-framing the city as a space to be explored

http://www.metropolitantrails.org/index

 

Edges

Kerbs
Banks (water)
Shorelines
Railway tracks
Cliffs
Doorframes
Walls
Window Sills
Steps

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