Anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it: a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
This book is for any visitor resident of the Elan Valley to enjoy a creative way of exploring the area and thinking about history, nature, and people.
Maps the vast stretch of urban settlement outside London bounded by the M25.
In his third one-year performance piece, from 26 September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents.
This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online between 12 and 26 October 2015.
A one-off 30 performance produced in relation to Teching Hsieh's Outdoor film. Part of LADA Screens 4.
Includes instructions from more than 35 artists' walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of Elastic City Founder who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks. The section, titled 'Creating Your Own Walk,' covers conceptual, narrative and logistical concerns, how to encourage participation and how to best promote this work.
Includes:
The Fables of la Fontaine 5 (2007)
Walking Around Planet (2005)
Suspended Moments (2007)
Toubabou… Toubabou… (2007)
Farafin a ni Toubabou (2007)
The Small Clouds Crossing the Sky of the Soul (2007)
A manifesto for the active and creative pedestrian – envisioning a walking that is neither a functional necessity (to shops, to work) nor a passive appreciation of (or complaint about) the urban environment.
Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery – for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.
A definitive selection of new and classic images of Jimmy, which includes the backstory of how the two became such great collaborators.
Publication on the participatory mapping project developed that took place on the Redways in Milton Keynes from 17th – 29th July, 2018.
In glass cabinet.
An anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it; a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.
An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.
Describes the framework in which Deveron Projects works and contributes to the social wellbeing of Huntly.
Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.
Exploring movements through private-public space in the city, the impact of urban surroundings on us and our relations with each other.
An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking 'normally' by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.
54 intriguing encounters produced by artists involved with the Walking Artists Network and beyond.
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
Includes essays by Phil Smith and Cathy Turner of Wrights and Sites, and a transcript of the talk given at the Hidden City Symposium in October 2008.
Compiled by 5 friends of Peace Pilgrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1982, the year after her “glorious transition to a freer life”, the book is composed mainly in her own words. The exceptions are the introduction, reproduced newspaper articles and comments by people she met while on her 28 year pilgrimage for peace.
Documentation of projects investigating environments for societal production of civic understanding through a series of durational performances that encouraged discursive public encounters in civic squares and related urban environments.
Itinerary map of Sideways festival organised as a 4 week expedition through Belgium, from West to East, between August 17th and September 17th 2012.
A comprehensive mid-career retrospective of Acconci's work
Four evolving walking-video experiments.
Footage documenting Blast Theory's I'd Hide You.
How to make your own mis-guided tour or walk.
Documentary footage of Blast Theory's A Machine To See With.
The first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
This Study Room Guide is concerned with journeys as an emerging trend in Live Art. A significant number of artists, practitioners and companies are currently incorporating travel into their work and using journeys in a variety of different ways.
Handbook of recollections and practical exercises exploring the art of walking and its modern uses. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
Performance Research Journal edition concerning the foot. Articles featured: CARL LAVERY & NICOLAS WHYBROW Editorial 'Pas de deux' MARTIN WELTON Getting Things Off the Ground: Pedestrain Feelings ALEXANDER KELLY [artist's pages] The Distance Between Us ADRIAN KEAR Thinking Limping: Richard Maxwell's 'Neutral Hero' and the tragic impediment of contemporary theatre ESTHER PILKINGTON & MARTIN NACHBAR We Always Arrive in the Theatre on Foot: A walk to the theatre in sixteen steps and eighteen footnotes JOHN HALL Foot, Mouth and Ear: Some thoughts on prosody and performance MATTHEW GOULISH & LIN HIXSON On Foot Commonplace Book JASON GROVES Before the Law of Human Motor Functions: Walter Benjamin's poetics of the step KIFF BAMFORD Acconci's Pied-a-terre: Taking the archive for a walk STEPHEN HODGE 'Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself' DEE HEDDON Turning 40: 40 Turns: Walking and friendship TOWNLEY AND BRADBY Conversations After Dark HAYDEN LORIMER Surfaces and Slopes MIKE PEARSON Warplands: Alkborough PERDITA PHILLIPS Walk 'til You Run Out of Water GREGG WHELAN Running Through a Field: Performance and humanness MARGARET AMES Memory, Identity and a Desire to Dance ADRIAN HOWELLS [artist's pages] Foot Washing for the Sole JOHANNES BIRRINGER The Un-Seeing Eyes of the Foot: In memoriam Kazuo Ohno SIMON PERSIGHETTI A Mis-Guide Walks to the Shoe Museum. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964). This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249)
This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964) and the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Performance Matters, Trashing Performance Talks
Book includes a DVD. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
A short guide on finding angels throughout the British Museum
Documentation of a public space, walking performance. 13 min. 30 sec.
A walk through the streets of Chelsea. Part of Sacred Season at the Chelsea Theatre, 28 April – 10 May 2008 (For full programme see REF. P1132).Video documentation, part 2 of 2. For 1 see REF. D1063.
A walk through the streets of Chelsea. Part of Sacred Season at the Chelsea Theatre, 28 April – 10 May 2008 (For full programme see REF. P1132).Video documentation, part 1 of 2. For 2 see REF. D1064.
Taking the form of an informative walk around the grounds of Blossomfield HouseWalking as a ‘feminist discourse’
Travel guide for a destinationless journey.
This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964). This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).