We dedicated our walk to Bill Mollison. Mollison, who passed away on 24 September, was a teacher, writer, ecologist, co-originator of permaculture with David Holmgren, and many more things. We walked with Mollison’s A Permaculture Designer Manual in our mind, … Read More
V and I went to the Art Gallery of Ontario to visit the Theaster Gates exhibition entitled How to Build a House Museum. We had seen it some weeks earlier and we had a plan to take some House Music … Read More
In my first post on walking in service work, I introduce walking (and running) as forms of body work in waitressing. This post is motivated by my reading of the anonymous auto-ethnographic blog posts of Maid In London, a hospitality … Read More
Entry #1 Takaronto is the Mohawk word for ‘where there are trees standing in the water’. Now known as Toronto, the original keepers of this land were the Haudenosaunee and most recently the Mississaguas of the New Credit. We need … Read More
Photo: “The Canoes” by Nancy Rubin outside the Albright-Knox in Buffalo. I’ve come to Buffalo as an artist-in-residence with the Open Air Institute at SUNY Buffalo’s Department of Media Study. Open Air Director Teri Rueb is my mentor and guide. … Read More
I took V out of school to head to the Royal Ontario Museum for the afternoon to find our next object to take for a walk. After the prerequisite trip to the Bat Cave we found ourselves in a gallery … Read More
We have been meeting to start our walks at Frontyard, a local, future-facing ‘Not-Only-Artist Run Initiative’. Frontyard is located on the land of the Gadigal Wangal people, now in the heart of the sprawling Sydney suburb of Marrickville. Marrickville has recently … Read More
This past July I was invited to create a “walkshop” at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto for a project celebrating the ideas of urban theorist Jane Jacobs. The series of events at the Gardiner, entitled The Make It Real … Read More
We started by making seed-balls, or as they are sometimes referred to, seed-bombs. We follow these different names because they help us to frame what we do as a translation practice. The technique of encasing seeds in a layer of … Read More
by Taien Ng-Chan The image of the city, as Kevin Lynch pointed out back in the 1960s, is different for each person, changing according to socio-political factors including class, race and gender. The city-image is, in part, a cognitive map, … Read More