The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked

Lavery, Carl

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-12006-9_14

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“…Although interest in audio walks has intensified in recent years (Lavery 2005;Myers 2010), much of this interest has focused around the phenomenology of their 'doing': on the rhetorical strategies, authorial voices and sound effects the walks deploy. In comparison there has been little work that examines everyday making, the manner in which such walks are 10 bound up with routine beings and doings of their makers.…”

Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Making Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Audio walks are techniques of place-making that enlist the participant in their consumption and production; they offer a framework for place-making but also require that the walker participate in making, or unmaking, place for him or herself (Pink 2008). As Lavery (2005) suggests, audio walks are lived practices and as such they collapse the traditional boundaries between author and audience, by demanding that both perform place. They allow the creators and participants to notice the eventfulness of place; the unique particular details and events that occur at that particular moment in time, as 'just this body in just this place' (Casey 1996: 22), as well as those of a past or future.…”

Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Doing Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There were people drinking on the curb as we went past and I thought it would be quite cool to stop and talk to them, which is something that'd never occur to me before. Lavery (2005) argues that audio walks disrupt the author/audience binary and demand that both produce place. As the people who walked our walks had to negotiate this messy, inconstant, punctuated soundscape, they had to draw on their other senses to make the experience coherent -to make sense of it.…”

Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Doing Placementioning

confidence: 99%

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Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city

Moles

Saunders

2015

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

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This article engages with how our auditory engagement with a particular soundscape helps frame and construct the places we move in and influences the ways we relate to our surroundings, to others and to ourselves. Its empirical focus is a series of urban audio walks that were made and carried out within a public engagement project designed to actively involve the participants and walkers in a relationship with(in) the place, community, history and culture. The article explores how this project worked with and challenged the form of the traditional, tourist-orientated audio walk, which tend to represent the city as a smooth, historicized space ready to be consumed. The walks produced in this project were more improvisational; they were vehicles for expressing the ragged, common sense topographies or place in the world of the participants. This tension draws to the surface questions of critical citizenship, as we trace how the participants 'mapped their world' within the preexisting and often overwhelming cartographies of their world and how this, in turn, allowed us to think more about the ways in which they position themselves and are positioned within dominant discourses as a particular type of citizen and urban dweller.

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Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Making Placementioning

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Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Doing Placementioning

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Section: Audio Walks As Practices Of Doing Placementioning

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Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city

Moles

Saunders

2015

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

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“…The act of driving alone in a car, for instance, demonstrates the lonely isolation of the contemporary individual better than any theoretical text ever could: it provides empirical proof that supermodern individuality -the right to go where we want, when we want -entails separation from others and reinforces solitude. 117 This is the present that Earnest satirically depicts -a world in which high-speed motor travel is the substitute for walking, creating spaces with which we barely interact. 118 And as technology advances, the divide bet ween walking and high-speed motorized transport continues to expand.…”

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Treading the Boards: the Significance of Walking on the Stage

Darby¹

2014

New Theatre Quarterly

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In this article Kris Darby examines the significance of walking on the theatre stage, responding to the growth of pedestrian performance as an area of research. He seeks to provide a point of expansion for a field that is still largely concerned with site-specific works where audiences walk during the performance. Beginning with a discussion of the possible reasons for the neglect of walking on stage, the author addresses the prominence of walking and the journey as a rehearsal tool employed by a wealth of practitioners. As further justification for the inclusion of the stage in pedestrian performance research, a series of historical case studies is presented which spans over a century of theatrical history, and includes an examination of the audience's pilgrimage to Richard Wagner's Parsifal (1882) and the ‘epic flow“ of Erwin Piscator's treadmill in Good Soldier Schwejk (1927). The significance of walking in Samuel Beckett's life is also explored through the ‘inward walking’ of Footfalls (1976), and the proscenium staging of Matthew Earnest's Wanderlust (2010) is made significant through its critique of supermodernity. The author concludes by arguing that an immobile audience can kinaesthetically empathize with the performers, embarking on their own internalized journey within the theatre. Kris Darby is a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Drama at Liverpool Hope, whose research interests concern the relationship between walking and performance.

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The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked

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Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city

Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city

Treading the Boards: the Significance of Walking on the Stage

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