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Hope Street Walk
A walk for Hope Street in Glasgow. Available as an audio walk here. Full text below. 1. Please use your own mobile device with headphones to experience this walk.2. The audio track is available on Soundcloud. The app can be downloaded in advance and the track is available at the link above.3. The starting point is on the steps outside the Royal Conservatoire […]
George Finlay-Ramsay's CASTOROCENE
Emerging (partly) from our workshop on 'landscaping with beavers' at his home at Bamff, George Finlay-Ramsay has shared his 'film pome', CASTOROCENE. Recently published in Rupert Journal: “The world went out like a candle” – a husky voice and yellow subtitles open up George Finlay-Ramsay’s film poem CASTOROCENE. Although “the world went o […]
Seeking the Sea: Performance in a Pandemic
An article I had published earlier this year opens with the line “Performance as an art form is live, ephemeral, and of the moment” (Cultural Geographies, April 2020). Are these words still relevant in the context of this global pandemic?As a performance-researcher I am keen to examine the way in which contemporary performance-making responds to social, poli […]
Change and repair: Trixxy walking, place-stories and recovery in a time of virus, by Helen Billinghurst & Phil Smith
Over the last two years we have been investigating an inexorable web of entanglement between story and place that has emerged during creative research projects. In the following essay we will recount how our experiences working on two such projects during the time of Covid have informed our understanding of the nature of this entanglement and reflect on thei […]
Living (in) Precarity
My name’s Sarah, I am 32 years old, and I am in companionship with pain . . . I am trying to listen to you.To get to know your qualities, character and atmosphere.To mark you.Honour you.To see what you have to say.And let you take centre stage. I have lived with chronic back and neurological pain for over 18 years. Until recently I viewed my pain solely as a […]

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