Lorna Brunstein and I have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the last phase of the project that started in Somerset back in April. The walk originates in the testimony of her mother's forced march from a slave labour camp into the infamous Belsen death camp. In April we walked as close as we could to the death march route that I had transposed to Somerset, arriving at the old Jewish Burial Ground in Bath on 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen.
On 4 and 5 February 2016 we will walk the actual route of the death march starting on the anniversary of the day that the group of women, including Esther Brunstein, left the slave labour camp near Hannover for Belsen. We are raising money to properly support the walk live and enable it to be fully documented and thus to extend the connections and amplify the resonances from it.
Honouring Esther is a performative walking arts project that has as its heart the testimony of a Nazi death march survivor.
Through Esther Brunsteins personal story at stopping points along the way we will share her spirit of internationalism and humanity. This is a poignant and timely walk resonating with contemporary struggles as the refugee crisis across Europe continues. The walk will remind us that a refugee’s journey continues until they find safety and a welcome and a sense of belonging. For many it is a life long search. In the end we are all migrants and we all need safety, security, love and friendship. If you are interested in finding out more, check out the blog here: Honouring Esther
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A Walk to the View, Sunday 4 October begins testing the idea of a walk out on enchantment. Join me on foot or online for an experimental walk wayfaring through Bath.
Meet outside 44AD Art Gallery/Studios at 10.00 I have now tracked this short walk a couple of times, experimenting layering up using Social Hiking, this is a live link so it will build as I add to it. Use the zoom tool to get closer, looks great in satellite view, click on the blue icons to see photos tweets and maybe more. You can follow me and walkers live by going to my link on Social Hiking.
On Sunday we'll be using some of the data on the beneficiaries of the slave trade perhaps to get another view on the enchanted city of Bath! A disenchantment, perhaps.
I am very keen to network with anyone interested in taking part in this remotely and of course walkers are hugely welcome. Artists, photographers, historians or even if you just fancy a different challenge to your walking. Join on foot if you can or online. Twitter: @walknowlive #walknow If you are thinking of joining the walk please let me know and if you are a socialmedia user...twitter, instagram etc please bring your phone! Questions? Comments? It would be great if you could let me know if you are coming! A YEAR WALKING OUT ON ENCHANTMENT A An open invitation to join a walk: on foot, online or both. Join me on a monthly walk exploring enchantment, heritage and the body. A series of critical walks exploring ‘hidden’ heritage, walks to work, walks that were or are work, walks that make connections and resonate on human rights issues. I am currently experimenting with strategies to resist immersive romantic/arcadian walking practices. So rather than walking to commune with nature and all that involves I am interested in walking out of necessity or coercion, from walks to work to walks at gunpoint, the walks of refugees, the walks of those who have to. I am interested in developing a disenchanted walking practice, aware of enchantments but never totally immersed in them. I am not quite sure what that will be and my intention is to use the coming year to discover that, and I hope you will join me for some or part of that journey on foot or online or both. My walking practice is digitally connected and this invitation is open to those who may wish to engage online as well as those who would like to physically walk. I am particular keen to walk with those who would like to experiment with social media and social networking in this context. Walkers of all kinds welcome.
The first walk will be on Sunday 4 October, to experiment on and with the recently released National Trust walk from the City of Bath to Bathwick fields. email for further info. walknow.post@gmail.com Times, dates and reports live and other wise will be published across these platforms https://twitter.com/walknowlive @walknowlive on my sketch blog https://rswpost.wordpress.com/ and tidier reports eventually here:
and here it is on Social Hiking, a bit of random pinging but there's me plus 3 other walkers here...check out the audioboom links!
Social media trails from day 2:
The second day of walking brought together more walkers using social media linked up to Richard's feed. Viewranger shows some of this on the basis of images harvested and posted to Flickr. Some of the Flickr posts are images shared which were subsequently posted to the Flickr group by Richard, they retained their gps tag and are thus located here:
using Social Hiking other users were linked directly to a single trail, this enabled tweets and retweets to be linked up thus beginning to capture live some fragments of thoughts and conversation. Posts cluster around the walk interventions:
A project in three phases: it begins with a challenge, memories and a line. Resonances.
The line of a Nazi Death March to Belsen transposed to Somerset. A walk about time and the land, exile and belonging, the drift of memory and forgetting, memorialising in an era dense with anniversaries. April 14-15 2015: A 2 day walk as close as possible to that line. Where the walk intersects the line, interventions. An intimate performative walk-in-witness exploring resonances from the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen. July 13-19 An exhibition of documentation of documentation and new work at 44AD Gallery, Bath BA1 1NN February 2016: A performative walk-in-witness on the original death march route from slave labour camp to Belsen. 71 years later. Interventions. Resonances. The first phase is done and we gather our thoughts: First day of walking social media trails, more starting points, glimpses:
and via Social Hiking bringing on tweets from some other walkers:
whitehorsewalk website and apps launched Three years work comes to an even wider audience: way back long ago when it all began I was checking out locative media and all the possibilities of tweets and photos with their geotags developing into something else. I was walking the Ridgeway developing a commission from Wiltshire Council. One dark winters morning leaving the car park at Avebury our walkers included the Director of the Salisbury International Festival, Maria Bota and artist Ali Pretty. One walk led to another just as one foot leads the other and having completed the Ridgeway Project working with the photographs of Fay Godwin, I found myself high on the Wansdyke with a crowd of walkers discovering that it was walking art.. Walking the Wiltshire White Horses. Ali Pretty and I came back the following year for a great collaboration which grew last year to include the Uffington White Horse.
Finally last week we launched a website with a 100 miles trail round the 9 Wessex White Horses, a short circular walk near each one and a series of day routes linking them all up. At each white horse a sound park experienced via an app. Lots of images from our 3 years on the North Wessex downs all integrated with graphics drawn from Ali Pretty's silks. A great project the social media is lives on and we are still walking. Here's a report of the launch: http://www.flicwiltshire.com/News/Education/App-launches-for-White-Horse-walks.aspx Great report and write up in the Viewranger Newsletter about the Gravity Fields project:
http://www.viewranger.com/en-gb/blog/2014/11/14/gravity-fields-festival-in-newtons-footsteps
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