Walking-planting the city, London
The Sense Lab, a laboratory for thought in motion, is composed of artists, academics, researchers, dancers and writers who work together to explore the active passage between research and creation.
As a member by proxy (one of my supervisors has attended various Sense Lab events), I’ve been involved in this year’s project, titled ‘Society of Molecules‘. Each molecule is challenged to set up an aesthetico-political action of some kind; the molecule that I was part of was interested in ‘Diagramming Movements between the cartographic and the choreographic’ and was co-located at Oxford, Chichester and London.
Movement profile
We want to facilitate a distributed field of movement and experiment between two techniques of thinking-space, two technologies of lived abstraction – geography and dance.
As part of this distributed event, the molecule gathered in London on 04.04.09 to meet one another, to talk about what we’d been reading (mainly Chaosmosis, by Guattari) and to be involved in some sort of ethico-aesthetic action. A walk was planned as part of an attempt to link two gallery spaces which were both part of the same exhibition (The Collection). Movement artist Simon Whitehead created a postcard ‘score’ to guide people along a pre-determined route. But walking was only part of it: all those involved were also encouraged to make seed balls and take them on the walk, with the view to introducing them to ‘latent spaces’. Guerilla gardening! SCATTER.
Score of the walk
The collage shows some of the encounters, trails and seeds planted on the walk. Please get in touch with me if you’d like a copy of the collage at full-size (4.4 MB).
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