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Richard White: Artist/researcher critically exploring walking, social media and intangible cultural heritage. Walking-with, walking and asking questions, as a creative, ecological, non-confrontational engagement with obscured and reluctant heritage. My on-going investigation addresses the physical, sensory, emotional and intellectual experience of walking with others in particular places. I want to understand, reveal and express embodied knowledge activated or generated through walking. My work generates content rooted in the complex layered mesh of embodied memories/ knowledge/experience emerging through intra-action with the material world. My specific focus is in outdoor contexts, primarily rural but eschewing the arcadian resonances of walking for pleasure or enlightenment. I am seeking to develop my practice though the juxtaposition of a register of walking as an act of free will with walking in its abject form, coerced walking and forced migration. This site specific, speculative practice combines a somatic approach with archive research, locative media and multimedia installation, exploring embodiment and heritage in journeys towards social justice. I am a member of the Walking Artists Network and Walk Listen Create, international networks of walking artists and artists who walk.. 
Thinking about enchantment and place-making:
Enchantment implies a separation from that which is not enchanted; place-making implies some thing which is not yet made. Place and power intra-act in producing senses of belonging, exile and exclusion, a process constituent of identity. I experience awe and wonder not as an illusion, something lost and needing to be retrieved and commodified. In reaching for accountability it is necessary to attend to the situated knowledge and partial perspective that enables that experience, denies it to others and obscures other perspectives. In my view place is immanent and all matter has agency; re-enchantment is the antithesis of becoming accountable. check out my vimeo channel for more
Catching the wind above Westbury White Horse 2013
I am indebted to all those who I have worked with over many years and particularly to artists: Ali Pretty and Lorna Brunstein
and creative/technical experts: Aneta Gorka and Adam Jansch |
Co-edited and co-authored with Christina Horvath. Liverpool University Press July 2024. Click image for free pdf download and/or to buy. Nineteen diverse and distinctive voices, including my own offer, commentaries and reflections, as well as strategies towards retelling obscured stories and getting unheard voices heard. My chapter relates to much of the work on this website to date focusing on Botany, Empire and Deep Time, the project in Sydney Gardens, Bath.
Join me on Facebook here: @walknowlive
You can see routes I have devised and tracks of some I have walked if you connect with me on Outdooractive 
Whispering subversive nothings into the ears of walkers! Silent Disco in Sydney Gardens, Bath(UK) 2023
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