Doing deceleration symposium at Nottingham Contemporary. We started the day in the project space of Nottingham Contemporary exploring the theme of ‘Doing Deceleration’. This was an event open to the wider public, not just the Summer Lodge. A full list […]
Invites sent out for Leila Houston’s Collaborative Sculpture as part of ACE funded project ‘Vulnerability in Austerity’ in Leicester
Artists Dawn Giles and Arabel Rosillo de Blas are undertaking a 10 day residency to test the realities of working together. The collective space of Summer Lodge is an opportunity to make work in the same space without the pressure of an outcome.
CULTURAL QUARTER, LEICESTER, LE1 1RE
(Originally posted April 2017)
A few weeks ago I had a surprise walk with Jonathan Skinner, professor of eco poetry at Warwick University. Jonathan also happens to be a friend of Cecilia Vicuña’s which is another project I am working on #ThreadandWord. Jonathan took […]
As I think about the Edinburgh walk I am reflecting on this line from Larry Eigner: “a poem can be like walking down a street and noticing things, extending itself without obscurity or too much effort” Larry Eigner’s writing made […]
A year of public talks and collective research and practice themed around ‘The Future’. AltMFA is a free, open alternative art school run by its peers.
As we are preparing for the #ThreadandWord walk in Edinburgh, I was delighted to receive the following from one of our artist walkers. Jill Rock http://www.cargocollective.com/JillRock “thinking on Chile and my time there after watching Neruda the film today it did […]
DEVELOPMENTS #ThreadandWord So ideas and events from the walk last March have developed in many different ways. Quipucamayocs I have been busy in the studio making ‘Quipucamayocs’, a series of artefacts using the ropes knotted by the walkers […]
Walking with the Waste Land Creating new encounters through walking. April : The Garden Gate to Northdown Park. We have just started a series of exploratory walks following a route from the Garden Gate in Margate through Northdown House gardens […]
“Let’s Talk about Vivienne” A walk , by the Walking with the Waste Land group at the Turner Contemporary. Saturday March 11th. A Photo Diary, creating new encounters. A performance by Jill Rock at Turner Contemporary Invoking Vivienne, through the […]
This walk includes a performance by Jill Rock, inspired by the Epigraph to the Wasteland, ‘Sybil” A small intervention by Elspeth Penfold at the Nayland Rock Shelter.’Menstrual Discord’. Referencing Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Quipu Menstrual’ With words by Judy Dermott accompanied by […]
A Walk on March 5th, #ThreadandWord @espacio gallery for Threads Exhibition curated by the Artists Pool Rope knotted by Robert Zammit Pace who joined the walk after attending the PV at Espacio. I hope this gives you a flavour of […]
This blog is a development from my blog Walking with the Waste Land. I have a number of new walking projects developing over the next year which will now feature in this blog.
Thoughts that developed as a result of our field trip on February 9th. Rhizomes A walking field trip from Espacio Gallery on the Bethnal Green Rd. through Sculpture in the City at various locations ending at Leadenhall Market. Participants: Veronika […]
I am really looking forward to this walk on February 23rd. Please let me know if you’re interested in joining either in London or in Kent or both. Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography http://terminaliafestival.org Exploring Boundaries and Monuments. Terminalia Festival […]
AN INTRODUCTION I started the group Walking with the Waste Land assisted and encouraged by research curator Trish Scott to use walking as a research tool as a part of the wider Research Group A Journey with The Waste Land, […]
WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2017 Seasalter in the frost in January, an estuary walk. A good place to think. REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEEK’S WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET: A FIELD TRIP FOR OUR WALK THREAD AND WORD ON MARCH […]
PREPARING FOR THREAD AND WORD A WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET ON MARCH 5TH AT 1PM. This walk is by invitation only, please email me if you would like to take part. . The walk is part of […]
“A quipu (or Chinu) in Aymara is an Andean storage device made of cord” Frank Solomon A Field trip for Thread and Word. celebrating “Cadenetas” by Lizi Sanchez “Vibratory forms in space and in time. Acts of Union and separation” […]
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) ‘Let’s talk about Vivienne’ An Artist Led Walk by Elspeth Penfold with Turner Contemporary ‘Walking the Wasteland’ Research Group Saturday March 11th 2017 11.00 a.m. – 1.30 p.m. Meet: Turner […]
