Walking in Air
Waeckerlé, Emmanuelle and Montgomery, Will (2021) Walking in Air. [Audio work, Other, Performance, Photography, Video]
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Walking in Air is an ongoing interdisciplinary project that encompasses walking, writing, thinking, music, performance and discussion. Drawing on Tim Ingold’s suggestion that ‘knowledge is formed along paths of movement in the weather-world’, the project considers walking in air to be a model for speculative thinking, for creative activity and for reconsidering our place within the natural environment. The core walking events can be either collective or individual in nature. These give rise to performance, workshop discussion, texts, images, videos and audio recordings, much of which are documented and archived online on the project website www.walkinginair.com. Composers, poets and artists from the UK and Europe are invited to undertake some local ‘Walking in Air’ field work. They are sent 3 poetic quotes we select from preliminary research for their potential to inspire or guide their activities. This is followed by an online or in person recollection gathering where stories, recordings, writings and images are shared and discussed. So far 8 Local fieldwork for a day or longer residential event (Centre Des Livres d’Artistes, France, Ditchling Museum). We are continuing to do 1 or 2 iterations per year of such local activities remotely shared as well as some in person collective ones in the UK. The co-organisers are Will Montgomery (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham). Participants are drawn from an international pool of composers, artists, and poets, 18 so far.
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