Sorrel Muggridge and Laura Nanni collaborative art projects: June 2009

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Further Afield - presented as part of the Living Landscapes Conference at Aberystwyth University and with Studio 303 Montreal Canada.

An intimate and exclusive performance on foot through the the streets of Montreal and the pathways of Aberystwyth. Experience your surrounding as never before while your landscape intertwines with another over 4,000 km away.

Further Afield is a series of performance-journeys involving negotiation of public space, language, distance and one-to-one exchange. Guided by Sorrel Muggridge (UK) and Laura Nanni (CAN) each adventure is designed for two participants at a time to experience together in separate locations.

The participants, in contact with one another at key points in the journey via phone, are involved as co-authors, interpreters and navigators of the piece.

Further Afield
19th June at 5.30pm 9.30 pm UK
12.30 - 4.30pm Canada

20th June at 5.30pm 7.30pm 9.30 pm UK
12.30 - 2.30 - 4.30pm Canada

http://www.studio303.ca
http://www.landscape.ac.uk/2009conference.html

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).

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.

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