Sunday, 21 October 2007
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Our 'dividing point' at the Marsh Loop Trail
Taken during the first part of our attempt to climb enough stairs to see each other over the horizon
Our artworks deal with journeys, distance and translation of space. At the root of our artistic practice is a cartographic process constructed through walking, exploring and composing an understanding of our physical and psychological topography by foot. This blog acts as a growing archive of our process and also a site for discussion and participation.
About us
- Sorrel and Laura
- We have been working with each other since summer 2006, usually with an ocean between us—Sorrel in Nottingham, England, Laura in Toronto, Canada. Individually, our practices have always responded to our preoccupations with human geography and site specificity. Collaboratively our works explore how people understand and connect with their surroundings and how we develop and communicate this sense of place. The transatlantic nature of our collaboration has changed our own sense of space; suddenly our environment and locality has had to expand to meet each other’s. We create performance walks and installations that explore our locality, using a task or rule based structures to re-map our surroundings. The installations can be appreciated as both an abstract form and quantitative or narrative maps of our journeys. Through this space we want to share with you our projects and progress as we embark on our latest projects. We can be reached at: sorrelandlaura@gmail.com
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Blog Archive
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2007
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October
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- Wolves and Cougars and Bears oh my! Again????
- To Trail Is Not Always To Follow Behind - Open Studio
- Our last day of walking to meet
- A Peek At The Peaks
- The First Cuts
- As the walks acumulate the erosion begins...
- It starts with the toss of a coin, The Marsh Loop ...
- The Marsh Loop: Laura's Side of the Story
- The Maths
- reboot
- Scale 1: 175,000 Metres
- A pinch, a rest, a landscape of meeting...
- A Cartography Of Distance
- Wolves and Cougars and Bears oh my!
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October
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Walking as a process
We are intrigued by anticipation and routine in the act of walking, with creating actions that echo the transforming processes of geology and human geography. Our collaborative methodology is evolving through practice and research inspired by writings of Solnit, De Certeau, Debord and Baudelaire.
Walking being the main feature of our artistic process, we create site-specific projects focusing on different qualities of this practice:
• Walking directly and sensually engages walkers (both performer and audience) with the environment/space they are in, at the time they are in it.
• Walking accommodates self-awareness and escape, one's mental focus switches (almost as expertly as an eye in its visual field) from one's body, to the landscape and beyond.
• Walking is a physical and personal experience that in the act of sharing is translated (distance traveled, number of steps, directions, stories) or recorded in visual forms (patterns, imprints, maps).
Walking being the main feature of our artistic process, we create site-specific projects focusing on different qualities of this practice:
• Walking directly and sensually engages walkers (both performer and audience) with the environment/space they are in, at the time they are in it.
• Walking accommodates self-awareness and escape, one's mental focus switches (almost as expertly as an eye in its visual field) from one's body, to the landscape and beyond.
• Walking is a physical and personal experience that in the act of sharing is translated (distance traveled, number of steps, directions, stories) or recorded in visual forms (patterns, imprints, maps).
interesting connections
Re:::lay
Re:::lay is a performance and installation project exploring the nature of long-distance relationships. The first phase of the project, developed in October of 2008, involves us creating performance-walks for participants between Nottingham and Edinburgh, London and Sheffield and Nottingham and Bethesda in the UK.
As Re:::lay develops, we will pose questions to you, our online audience, and suggest creative instructions and activities for how to connect with others over distance. We encourage you to share you opinions and results here.
As Re:::lay develops, we will pose questions to you, our online audience, and suggest creative instructions and activities for how to connect with others over distance. We encourage you to share you opinions and results here.
Re:::lay is supported by
To Trail Is Not Always To Follow Behind
Our 'dividing point' at the Marsh Loop Trail
699km up/3478 miles as the crow flies
Taken during the first part of our attempt to climb enough stairs to see each other over the horizon
this blog is a space for us to document and share our collaborative artworks as we make them, bringing together our transatlantic actions and audiences.
4 comments:
Hi both,
it's starting to look nuts! I'd be really interested to see your screen print and paper making exploits. Some of the photographs and the note books particularly lend themselves very nicely to screen printed maps. It would be great to see how they would be applied to 2 dimensions. Plus screen prints always feel really nice.
Love the photo's, the tree looks like it's swallowed a bee hive or something. Looks great over there and my thoughts are with you all the time.
Lots of love
Glynxxx
To Sorrel and Laura.
October
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees,one far away,
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
From October by Robert Frost.
Glyn
Just been catching up on the blog - fascinating but wierd - I'm sorry I haven't added a comment before - didn't realise you didn't know that people were reading it - stupid really - that's what comes of working with computers. Hope it's still enjoyable
love Mark & Jean
hi glyn
thank you for the poem, full of very apt imagary, the falling leaves had a big impact on the changing landscpe of the marsh, even though most of the trees around it are ever green, they are interspersed with what i think are Aspen trees, which have very white green bark and atthis time of year the leaves have turned yellow. over the last few walks there were patches of the muddy trail which looked like they had been decorated with yellow polka dots.
also on one of my first walks i had a lovely encounter with two yellow birds which were jumping around a yellow bush, they were a really vivid coulour but completey invisible in the bush, by the next walk all the leaves and these yellow birds were gone. it changed the space loads.
i am a little worried too because tomorrow we are leading groups for a performance walk and laura has to follow my directions some of which rely on leaves still bing on the trees!!! just hope its not been too windy or they may well get lost.
we have managed to do some oft he printing we planned, we have made silk screen prints of the text directions for these walks which each of the participants will receive. it was a trick print as we decided to make them double sided so had to get each print perfect twice !!! aaaggghh we did ok, we got 30 good prints of each.
we will tart the prints from our marsh loop drawings on monday. we have all the colours and screens ready to go we just need to cut the paper, all very exciting.
lots of love
sorrel
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