This was shown at Workplace Gallery January 15th to March 15th 2014. This UTube clip makes it look even more bonkers than it actually was, but it gives you a flavour of the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkWUqU0Rcgw
One of the books I had with me today is available free online
It is an interesting response to the impact human kind are having on the planet
This looks like a great opportunity to see the Victoria Tunnels and how an artist has responded to them!! Mark Fell has created Time as Articulated Space: click on the link below for more details. There seem to be spaces left, but it is booking up quickly. Could be £5 well spent!
https://uk.bookingbug.com/home/41996-TUSK
On our first set of urban rambles we came across Morden Tower set into the Town Wall. I’m trying to see if we can go in the tower, but for now have a look at the web site to see who has performed there in the past.
http://www.mordentower.org/index.html
I have meandered through the library and got a few books out, these will be with me in the Long Gallery on Wednesday (15th Oct) for you to browse through, together with a selection of books from my own library.
After this Wednesday I will return them to the Robinson Library so you can get them out for yourselves should you wish to do so.
The Map is not the Territory: Alan Woods and Ralph Rumney (Level 4: 759.2 WOO)
Psychogeography: Merlin Coverley: (Level 3: 155.91 COV)
Invisible Cities: Italo Calvino: (Level 4 853.914 CAL)
The Society of the Spectacle: Guy Debord: (Level 3: 302 DEB)
Rings of Saturn: W G Sebald: (Level 4 833.914 SEB)
Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit: (Level 4: 796.51 SOL)
Topophilia: Yi Fu Tuan: (Level 3 : 304.2 TUA)
Space and Place: The perspective of experience: Yi Fu Tuan (online)
They are all great books for different reasons but for a fiction read that it short but incredibly rich I highly recommend Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
I was thinking about the way we had explored the city so far during our Urban Rambles and I recalled a video by this artist which demonstrates a very intimate interaction with the pavement. Don’t worry it’s not rude, but possibly a bit much before breakfast!
http://www.mitrasaboury.com/projects/stumblingblock-14/
The way we made ourselves familiar with these huge buildings that we walked around
We don’t have so much CCTV in Germany. It isn’t spread out so densly over German cities. It is not the normal case that there are cameras in public space but just in some places where crimes take place. However in the last years the cameras are getting more and more in German cities, too.
You can see the shadows of the ventilators on the town wall. Some rests of the town wall are still outliving the centuries and every decade leaves some little traces on it. The shadows could be some temporary traces that just lasts as long as the sun is shining.
The different use takes away the original function of the letter box and changed it into some kind of walk-by ashtray.
Protection makes your life safer? It is suggestive of armed protection which would even defend the neighbour with violence and not some kind of prevention by communication or getting to know each other. It somehow seems to implicate that you as a stranger are a potential danger for the neighbourhood.
http://soundcloud.com/mpeccles/urban-walking/s-CtXyR
Thank you to Martin Eccles (3rd year Fine Art BA hons student) who made these recordings during the first walking as thinking session.
For some reason the link to the Walking as Thinking piece doesn’t want to work but click on the one above and then find Walking as Thinking on Martin’s Sound Cloud page.
If you were at the visiting artist lecture I gave on Wednesday you will have heard Neil Bromwich mention an artist working with the only site in the UK that Robert Smithson worked with. I thought I’d sign post his website as his work has many overlapping ideas with the The Art of Straying.
https://www.charliedanby.co.uk/read/CharlesDanby01
If this does not work as a link just copy and paste it into your search bar… I didn’t want clutter the top menu bar too much.
