Our project is in its early stages but our process for this work is being heavery impacted by our new time difference of 8hrs. Laura in Banff myself in Norfolk.
Monday, 7 December 2015
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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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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.