performing lines & research-creation
WalkingLab lead a series of Stone Walks in Paris examining the geosocial materiality of urban space in June, 2017. On this walk we investigated the catacombs. The catacombs as we now know them were created in the 18th century in … Read More
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
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