Hamish Fulton,
Walking for seven days in a wood.
Cairngorms, Scotland, April 1991
Robert Wilson, Walking
Reflections on watching the video
No phone, camera or food.
People collected items along the journey
Tranquility
Slow down
Kate Harvie, producer
5 large scale sculptural installations along a 3 mile part of the Norfolk coast line. They are experienced by the audience at a very slow pace. Collaborated with a theatre and lighting designer as well as a Dutch director. They have together choreographed how the audience interact with the installations. They are created to change the audiences view of the landscape around them and therefore experience a series of perception changing experiences.
Black box-sensory deprivation box (no light or sound), standing alone at the beginning of the route for 1.5 minutes moving into a zen like courtyard. With a big hole, of which you can not see the bottom of but just hear a loud drone of sound.
Deprived of expansive landscape which they have been walking in-a narrow corridor, hearing different sounds and smelling the wood chips. This is in contract to the expansive landscape they have been walking in and therefore takes away some sensory information, perhaps, opening and heightening their awareness after experiencing this.
- leaving traces in the landscape (the audience)
He has created a number of installations in the landscape which the audience experience as part of a walk, going from one to the next, each one with something different.
e.g. the cone; a sound installation on the dunes of the beach
It is interesting for me how he guides the audience through the landscape, using it as an opportunity to affect how the audience experience the landscape as well as guiding them in direction and suggestions to move at a slower pace.
In relation to my own work, I am finding more and more relationships which I have developed myself, which link back to my initial findings.
For example, the site specificity of the work draws upon the role of the flaneur in society and his rebellion against societal conforms.
Images, artists and exhibitions which have influenced the research.
