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Mapping the Landscape: Bath School of Art

11/6/2019

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I am not hosting this but hoping to get a wider public along, should be good!
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Perambulations and (dis)enchantments: exhibition report

8/31/2019

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More than 5 years in the making and hundreds of miles in the walking, (dis)enchantments and perambulations short films and soundscapes plus documentation was exhibited at Corsham Court, Wiltshire, The exhibition presented short films and soundscapes plus documentation of the creative practice as research for Richard White's PhD, In the cellar gallery in two linked immersive installations, work was shown from the Sweet Waters and Honouring Esther cycles of walks. Documentation including walkers notebooks and some of the other research outputs were presented in an adjoining room

Forced Walks: Honouring Esther from Richard White on Vimeo.

iThe work presented in installation evoked the atmosphere and embodied experience of the walks, reflecting thoughts and impressions of the walkers. The approach taken with the film above is closer to documentary and offers an account of the Honouring Esther project, The film links to the other films shown from the Honouring Esther on Richard White's Vimeo channel here. The short sample below is a walkthrough of the installation showing samples from both ends of the installation, Honouring Esther work is shown first.
In addition to work shown in installation an interactive sampler was produced using Klynt and is available here
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(dis)enchantments and perambulations:

5/24/2019

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(dis)enchantments and perambulations: walking arts and reluctant heritage
An installation

Thursday 18 July to Tuesday 23 July
Corsham Court Long Gallery, Corsham
Looped short films and soundscapes. A walk ( Saturday 20 July).

Re-visiting two cycles of walks Sweet Waters and Honouring Esther.  Juxtaposing the experience of walking for pleasure with coerced walking and forced migration. Honouring Esther attended to a Nazi death march and Sweet Waters explores the legacies of slave-ownership in Bath and along the River Avon. Both projects develop an iteration of a ‘walking-with’ approach towards revealing and countering reluctant heritage.


Thursday 18 July to Tuesday 23 July Corsham Court Long Gallery, Corsham
(dis)enchantments and perambulations: an installation

access via Blue Door, Bath Spa University entrance
  • Thursday and Friday 10.00-18.00
  • Preview: Thursday 18.00-19.45
  • Saturday 0930 walk : a (dis)enchantment  approx 2 miles. meet at the main gate
  • Saturday 11.00-16.00          Closed Sunday and Monday
  • Tuesday 11.00-13.00

Corsham Court, Church Street, Wiltshire, Corsham SN13 0BZ

NB: there is no parking on the Corsham Court site for visitors to this exhibition, this is a Bath Spa University event and does not provide access to the Methuen collection or the grounds.
Free on street parking is available nearby at the end of the High Street, on The Laggar and on Priory Street, There is a car park by the Co-Op at the other end of the High Street

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Confluence: interconnectivity and interdependency

4/1/2019

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Confluence exhibition Stroud. I am exhibiting work here alongside Walking the Land artists and offering a short textual intervention with the Space, Place, Practice research group. We give the idea of enchantment 'a good frisk' according to one writer. The exhibition takes place at the Museum in the Park, private view Wednesday 17 April and other workshops through the run
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Walking with trees and empire in Cheltenham

6/27/2018

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A (dis)enchantment in Cheltenham walking in Pittville park with Cheltenham Tree Officer Chris Chavasse, a Speculative Art School...speculation...  Walking slowly and at times without talking (the most difficult bit) considering the multilayered stories folded into this place and our entangled presence there.
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Huge trees from the original planting propped up and surviving. Old.
Rattling notions of time and place and queering where is here...the stone itself.
The pumproom built out of stone 175 million years ago, sat on rock similarly formed at the bottom of warm Jurassic seas...where was here, then, what presences unacknowledged?
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Ghosts trees and absences. The slaveowners who walked the park, for whom the estate was laid out by speculator Pitt. The architect Stokes, a slaveowner born in Jamaica who sold up in good time to slip through England and on to New Zealand ending up with 30,0000 acres of New Zealand sheep country.
The flow of wealth, its owners unmarked seep from colonised island to colonised island leaving the marked in their wake. Not a word. Don't mention the sugar.
One local resident in 1835 missed out on over £8k in government compensation on the basis of her ownership of 415 people on the Seven Rivers Estate in Jamaica. The enslaved people were mortgaged to a Reverend Henry Mair, man of the church.
Enslaved people received no compensation.
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Does the stone capstan on the lake echo those who pushed it round at the tip of the slavemaster's whip crushing the sugar to make the wealth this park manifests?

To the trees, the romance of the holly and the oak no more indigenous than any other invasive coloniser. Its about time and speed, it depends on where here and there is or was.

The swift seeding birch gets in quick from eastern europe as the glaciers retreat and the heavy footed oak lumbers from the warm safety south of the Alps or the Pyrenees. They get across the North Sea before it was there. When the first Brexit was enforced by the rushing meltwater just 33 trees had made it to the safety of Albion' shore.
None of them native, really.

Considering the recent colonial arrivals and the plant hunters who brought them back... how their trophy hunting trips funded perhaps by slave generated wealth in turn colonised knowledges. and occupied the spaces of being. What do we really know about these trees what intelligence could we connect with in them ?
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Joseph Pitt MP anti semite and anti catholic speculated on land in Cheltenham. An MP in some of the rotten boroughs of Wiltshire. The Great Reform Act was designed to clean parliament of the likes of him. He opposed electoral reform and was out before the Act came in. In 1812 Lord Suffolk wrote of Pitt to Lord Holland that he was,
a very strong instance why some reform in the representation is necessary. He will from a corrupt influence return 2 Members for Malmesbury, 1 for Cricklade, 1 for Cirencester and 1 for Wootton Bassett all including the votes in the town of Cricklade notoriously corrupt, and all this from his influence as an attorney, a banker, a land jobber and a money lender.4

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Now the park is free for everyone to use and the planted dreams of Pitt's landscape architects are realised. Enslaved people have not been compensated.  The planet warms faster than oak trees can run. Deep entanglements and responsibilities to consider, especially for white folk.

A walking with the park asking questions taking notes, tweeting..maybe a haiku in the park from someone. The conversation continues, the questioning opens doors, we feel the now brittle dry leaves that dinosaurs ate fresh.
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Beyond Forgetting

2/24/2018

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Public presentation at Bath Spa University Thursday March 15
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Forced Walks: Honouring Esther. Bristol 25 Jan

1/18/2018

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Screening and artists talk
Thursday 25 January City Hall Bristol. 7.30-9.00 pm
Working and walking with survivor testimony as it fades from living memory
Presentation on the Forced Walks project: Honouring Esther. Bringing a story of resistance and hope out of persecution and hate. Short films and sounds from the walks in Somerset and Germany retracing the route of a Nazi Death march. Survivor testimony and contemporary resonance.
Working with co artist Lorna Brunstein I hosted the Forced Walks project, Honouring Esther, in 2015-17.  We traced the death march that her mother Esther Brunstein survived...transposed the route to Somerset and then retraced her steps a year later. Part of a process of bringing Esther's experience home to us now and exploring ways of working with survivor testimony as it slips out of living memory. I made some films and sound pieces, Lorna subsequently created powerful installations with material gathered along the way. More here: https://forcedwalks.wordpress.com/
A Holocaust Memorial Day event hosted by Bristol Hannover Council, who, along with Bath Spa University and a host of supporters on Kickstarter supported the original project.

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Bath Anti-Mapper: a co creation research tactic

11/23/2017

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Exploring co-creativity back in September we went in search of antimapper, walking and sensing the silences, gaps and distortions in the official version of the City. Joined by co-creationists from Europe and South America I hosted a counter-mapping walk across the city. Beginning with 6 city sites.....
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Co hosted with Katie O'Brien from 44AD and Christina Horvath from University of Bath we walked talked, listened, tasted the walls, touched the stones and told stories of other places.
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At 44AD just opposite the Roam Baths, in the basement workshop the following day we reviewed findings, checked out printed up photos and recycled some of Bath's promotional materials. Working on my Bath anti map, an annotated version of a map of the city's official story, the group developed an instant counter-map on the wall.  Here we are at work:
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This was a developing co creation tactic for stimulating discussion and research on an urban area as part of the conference Co-Creation Network at University of Bath. Here is the squished and squashed map as it was left on the wall reassembled and further reconstructed as evidence of process.
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Journey to Justice Bristol

10/26/2017

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Hands Across the City

Sunday 29th October
Castle Park by the Bristol Bridge entrance, BS1 3XD
Time 12:30 – 16:00
The culmination of the month-long celebration of Journey to Justice Bristol, this historical walk starts at Bristol Bridge. It proceeds to Pero’s Bridge where we shall hold hands to make a human bridge affirming the city’s solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities. We shall end at City Hall with a celebration event. Everyone is encouraged to wear colourful clothing, to make this a real celebration of diversity and of our own personal journeys to justice.
Free
Following the celebrations at City Hall you may like to move on to Hamilton House for ‘Lyrically Justified Speaks Volumes’ from 17:00 – 20:00, an evening of Poetry, dance, music and storytelling.
Find out more here

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Workhouse Walks, return to the Workhouse. Gatherings at the Burial Ground 20 Sept

9/9/2017

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The current phase of the project comes to completion on Wednesday 20 September with the walk back from the Museum of Bath at Work to the former Workhouse and its Burial Ground. We will complete the last section of the 1856 route as we cross the golf course and make our way through the University of Bath car parks. A route littered with ironies!

This is an all day walk starting with a 10.00 briefing at the Museum of Bath at Work.

Join us at 16.30 or 18.00 at the Burial Ground on Wellsway
We aim to be at the Burial Ground around 16.30, here we will invent for ourselves a short paying of respects to those who died in poverty and whose bodies were disposed of in this field on the edge of the enchanted city. An opportunity to share thoughts and creative responses regarding the space itself and on the themes of poverty, respect, memory. All welcome for this moment. This will complete the cycle of walks exploring Winkworth's 1856 circuit of the parishes with the boys from the workhouse

At 18.00 at the Burial Ground, the next phase begins. John Payne and I invite all those who would like pay their respects and acknowledge those whose lives ended in poverty and are represented at this Burial Ground . We are calling out to those who may be interested in  taking this project forward to join us beginning a process that will develop the research on the Workhouse and see some kind of creative memorialisation at the Workhouse Burial Ground. Perhaps we'll do some more of Mr Winkworth's walks and discover more about the other stories of Bath. 

If you cant make it and would like to be involved in this, please contact me.

Estimated timings for those who might want to  connect with us enroute
14.00 Top of Widcombe Hill entrance to NT Rainbow Woods opposite Copseland
15.00 in Combe Down junction of Belmont Road and Summer Lane..we will be walking along Shepherds Walk
16.00 We will leave Sainsbury's cafe to walk through the Workhouse site and round to the Burial Ground

Here is the route we will take
You can of course follow online via Twitter (@walknowlive) and see Tools section of the site, using Viewranger or Social Hiking you can see the progress of the walk live.
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