performing lines & research-creation
I was in Buffalo again yesterday, having planned a long walk to see the beautiful architecture of the city. As it was only two days after the horrifying US elections, I hadn’t really wanted to go, but having already made … 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
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
Hamilton Perambulatory Unit’s Strata Walk in Memphis Thresholds (by Susan Nordstrom, PhD). Inescapable as the rhythmic buzzing of cicadas on a hot summer day, nonhuman plant life disrupted, pulled, drew, and made me attend to them as … Read More
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Hamilton Perambulatory Unit’s Strata Walk in Memphis. Sounds of Memp[his]. By David Ben Shannon.
Hamilton Perambulatory Unit’s Strata-Walks Memphis Speculative Street Map (By Sarah E. Truman) This map documents some speculative aspects of what Memphis’ Broad Street could be. It was created on a sultry summer morning in August as part of a larger group … Read More
Signs on a Strata-Walk with the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit in Midtown, Memphis. By Anise Truman
Strata-Walk in Memphis, with Hamilton Perambulatory Unit. Repeats of diagrams and grids in doorways and windows. I was interested in the ways in which these doors and windows exemplified within an urban space the gentrification ongoing in Memphis. … Read More
by Donna Akrey Participants were asked to take photographs of any thing they found on our walk that could be conceived as a sculpture-that is—could be exhibited in another context (gallery or public space) and possibly be believed to be … Read More
by Donna Akrey For the second walk-participants where directed to go and find examples of FORMS, SHAPES AND STRUCTURES that we read about in the reading Lining Materials, Living Forms from the text LIVING MATERIALS: A Sculptures Handbook by Oliver … Read More