I will have a text-work included as part of the forthcoming publication Ways to Wander
: A Footwork [1] compendium of
suggestions, instructions, rules and activities for walking. Edited by Claire Hind and Clare
Qualmann (
Footwork/Walking Artists Network). More details to follow soon.
Ways to Wander
- an interdisciplinary catalogue of ways to
engage with walking from simple ideas to complex instructions, philosophical
musings to playful encounters. Inspired by the multi-disciplinary approaches
and experiences of the Footwork research group, and by Professor Carl Lavery’s
‘25 Instructions for Performance in Cities’ [2], this compendium aims to
assemble a series of short texts that can be used to construct, interact with,
or be encountered on a walk. The text may be for any location: urban, suburban
or rural, or it could be site and/or route specific. Contributions may
offer an improvised experience, or a more structured task. The context may be
geological, environmental, historical, autobiographical, pedagogical,
political, playful, spiritual, critical, or any combination of these.
[1]
Footwork is a research group attached to the Walking Artists Network,
[2]
Lavery, C., 2005, ‘Teaching Performance Studies: 25 instructions for
performance in cities.’ Studies in Theatre and Performance, vol. 25, no. 3, pp.
229-238.