performing lines & research-creation
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.
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
For these strata walks—-I asked my Sculpture students from Brock University in St Catharines Ontario to go on three directed walks. The first two where around a city block in downtown St. Catharines close to our studio and the last … Read More
Astrida Neimanis, from University of Sydney, Australia recently led WalkingLab and Hamilton Perambulatory Unit on a walk to Hamilton Ontario’s Windemere Basin. Until recently, the Basin was polluted pond of sludge due to industrial run-off lat century. It was restored about … Read More
The HPU’s Strata-Walk begins with a series of prompts or instructions that are designed to develop the art of noticing as a process of mapping the strata of place. The metaphor of stratigraphy allows the use of many diverse kinds … Read More