a walk

arthur+martha is developing walk projects in which text/art pieces are placed into rural and urban landscapes. The walks can be artist interventions or community projects. Partners include: schools, community groups, local council, park rangers, art galleries, sculpture trails, health centres... These projects give scope to:

  • create art/poetry in response to a walk
  • promote greater understanding of local environment
  • encourage discussion and interplay within a community, especially intergenerational collaborations
  • allow alienated/disenfranchised members of a community to establish deeper connection with their locale
  • provide opportunity for educational elements
  • develop sites of local interest, promoting visitors and tourism
  • stimulate cultural activity
  • bring the possibility of walks, either actual or imagined, into lives of people with mobility issues
  • promote healthy lifestyles, by encouraging walking
please visit our blog for news of current walks http://arthur-and-martha-walk.blogspot.com/

examples:

Leaves of Grass Lois Blackburn's Leaves of Grass series juxtaposes the multiplicity of natural landscapes with the limitations of linguistic definition; the piece is also a meditation on mortality, eye-punning the wooden markers with both graves and grasses.

Mohnblume walk Remembrance Sunday 2007

In Spring 2008, arthur+martha CIC are working in partnership with High Peak Community Arts to undertake a ‘high tech’ text art walk, called a gathering walk

Also in Spring 2008 we will be working with Bury Councils Art Team to develop Inscape: a stone walk which is a community art text walk project with the aim of promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of the Irwell Sculpture Trail.

sun/dew: (example proposal, which is being developed as a re:place project by Arts in the Peak and arthur+martha CIC)

 

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Philip Davenport's Imaginary Missing People poems were published by Bob Cobbing in 1999 and have been billposted in London, Brighton, Manchester and most recently Reykjavik (2007). They are found poems derived from missing persons notices and Davenport's own diaries.