We invite you to share a favourite walking route in nature or town. It can be just around a few local streets, a bushwalk, or perhaps a walk somewhere further away where you grew up or used to live. Somewhere that has meaning for you and that you are familiar with. Everyone is welcome!
For more details please contact :
WeiZen Ho on 0416 038 897 or email weiofzen@gmail.com
Alan Schacher on 0418 272601 or email alanschacher@gmail.com
This is part of their 2022 Critical Path Research Residency titled What Persists.
For more information: https://criticalpath.org.au/programs/alan-schacher-weizen-ho/
Introducing
WeiZen Ho, Alan Schacher and Phillip Mar have initiated a community engagement and project that is very much grounded in the Blue Mountains, where they live. As part of their 2022 Critical Path Research Residency titled What Persists, they are inviting local residents to share a favourite walking route in nature or town. It could be around a few local streets, a bushwalk, or perhaps a walk further away where they grew up or used to live. Somewhere that has meaning for them and has significance in their lives.
Talking with people about the significance of this walk will be the beginning of investigations of place and public space, and how place can be engendered through community. Further discussions and working groups will focus on ways of devising a social choreography based on symbols that persist in the individual’s memory.
Memory walks will explore walking in the different ways that it activates body memories. In walking we may trace steps between the other places and times of our lives. These places and times might include exile or emigration or other kinds of journeys or transformations. We aim to reveal what persists in remembrances of places and how they mesh with places and communities in the Blue Mountains. Walking will be our research method and development process, a way to get to know Blue Mountains people better and the journeys they have made.
We’d like to gather a small group willing to join in discussing, reminiscing, walking, and then making together a kind of ceremony or procession as a further act of collective place-making. This might include artefacts developed in a workshop process.
In parallel the team will be working in exchange with collaborators in Indonesia :
Mella Jaarsma, a Dutch artist who has been resident in Indonesia since 1984 lives in Jogjakarta.
Mira Asriningtyas, a curator & researcher, lives in the the mountainous district of Kaliurang, near Mt. Merapi volcano. This is the sociocultural geography in which a similar callout research phase will take place.
Artists’ links:
WeiZen Ho : www.weizenho.com
Alan Schacher : https://alanschacher.net
Mella Jaarsma : www.mellajaarsma.com
Mira Asriningtyas : www.miraasriningtyas.com