Reflections on walking and the disruptive experience
(2024)
author(s): Kenneth Russo
published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
Our main interest is based on understanding spatial relationships from first-person experience, from our virtual and real body. Through the act of walking, movement in real time, we become cursors that dash across the interface of reality. A continuous process that brings us closer to the production of meanings, new relationships and representations, and also a dialogue with space and time, and the network. This article seeks to present a series of disruptive experiences, documented by the authors themselves, which constitute an exploratory framework of space to discover different symbolic interrelationships, and sketch out constructions of the common space in haptic, political, social and cultural mode. It offers a repository of unexpected, intersubjective encounters, from the empirical practice of walking, which arouses new perspectives to be able to interpret circumstantial spaces, to lose oneself in ‘non-places’, or reflect as to how to approach the landscape and/or the city by opening new imaginaries that add value to the ‘glocal’ place that we traverse and/or inhabit.
critical mapping with the camera eye
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Jule von Hertell
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exhibition investigates places in Mallorca, Spain and how sites of crimes during the dictatorship and civil war can be examined from the present to their past using documentary film approaches. Is it possible to uncover the layers and interconnections of a place with its history and entanglements using filmic images of the present and different voices from interviews, quotes from documents and letters, sounds and the artists voice-over? This exhibition will be created as part of the work on the ongoing PhD project “Memory in Documentary Essayistic Film” located at University of Fine Arts Hamburg.
It involves capturing a place and its inscriptions, reflecting on the history of the location, Spanish-German entanglements, and transnational memory through the camera images.
