Use the hashtag #4wcop21 during the Congress.
Rejoin us after lunch for a jam-packed programme of presentations, panel discussions and play!
Please note all times shown are British Summer Time (BST).
Please note all times shown are British Summer Time (BST).
13:00 - Andrea Capstick - 'Playing about with Whiteley Turner: psychogeography at a crossroads.'
Whiteley Turner first published his book ‘A Springtime Saunter: Round and about Brontëland’ in 1913. Charting a four-day walk across the moors from his home in Mount Tabor, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, to Haworth, this first edition was published by subscription from local people. One of them, Jonathan Priestley of Luddenden, was Andrea Capstick’s great-great grandfather. On the centenary of Whiteley Turner’s death, Capstick will repeat his Saunter, looking into the intersections between Turner’s life and times and those of her forebears with reference to specific geographical markers. JOIN THE LIVE EVENT HERE: https://bradford-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89256862870?pwd=U2VXbGVwV01hRE5paFhEL0lZZ2JqZz09 |
13:30 - Simon Bradley and Ursula Troche - 'Bing Oh! A climbing frame for the postindustrial playground.'
How can we alter conceptions of landmarks, without leaving marks? Bradley and Troche offer a virtual tour into the past and future, taken from the perspective of a conical spoil tip near Crosby, Cumbria. Setting out from John Latham’s Niddrie Woman (1976) - a ‘process sculpture’ comprised of oil shale heaps called ‘bings’ in Midlothian - the artists overcome obstructions and diversions to scale the vertiginous heights of ‘Bing Crosby’, shifting from the unbridled destruction fuelling 18th century capitalism to revegetating prospects of playful, intangible creation. This session will include a link to preview the artists' film - please arrive promptly. JOIN THE LIVE EVENT HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83266941213?pwd=Z25BcklHMUYxZFhvOExEUlB2anNtUT09 VIEW THE FILM IN ADVANCE HERE: https://vimeo.com/597479275/9744497ce7 |
14:00 - Zoe Chan - 'Sound and Vision: A Place Soundtrack.'
Does walking to music change how we experience place? Visually capture four musical styles in this playful walk, designed to aurally explore your environment. Following Zoe Chan’s Spotify playlist https://sptfy.com/4wcop, repeat a single route to experience the environment differently and fully immerse yourself in your chosen place, comparing how each musical style is represented and interpreted in this one area. Alternatively, walk a different route for each musical style. You will need a Spotify account (free version available). For more information, contact Zoë on Twitter or email zoe@typelark.com. DOWNLOAD THE PLAYLIST HERE: https://sptfy.com/4wcop JOIN THIS EVENT IN REAL TIME WHILE YOU LISTEN: on Twitter @ZoeTypelark, sharing your interpretations using #SoundAndVision and #4WCOP21. More instructions available from Zoe via Twitter at the start time. |
15:00 - Adrian Riley - 'The Psychogeography of Typography.'
How does the lettering on buildings around towns and cities define or determine a place? Does it subconsciously influence how we move around and respond to that environment? Join artist-designer Adrian Riley mixing up typefaces and traipsing with a focus on the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. DIY Walk also available in Anytime Events. Find out more on Adrian’s website: http://www.electricangel.co.uk/ JOIN THIS EVENT HERE: https://zoom.us/j/96795544953?pwd=MEVETHdnajNrVFIrdFgrRDVUQjB2dz09 (Password: letters) |
15:30 - Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith - 'Sharing The Walk.'
In this talk, Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith advocate for a shift in the balance of agency in psychogeographical walking from human subjects to shared activism with unhuman players, including place-stories, subterranean networks and sites of rewilding. Noting the rising importance of ‘animism’, decolonialisation and challenges to anthropocentric perspectives, they will address the significance for walking arts of thinkers like Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, David Abram and Simon O’Sullivan. The artists will illustrate this discussion with examples from their recent ritual games projects, including street shrine making, burning and indoor mapping. JOIN THIS LIVE EVENT HERE: https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/93577697197?pwd=VzBtL0xqSE5BazhWaFk4NGFEYVByUT09 (Meeting ID: 935 7769 7197, Passcode: 460862) |
16:00 - Fiona Cullinan, Kruse, Sheree Mack, Sonia Overall and Fiona Weir - 'How Women Walk.'
How do women walk? We may covet visibility or invisibility, deal with extra restrictions, use props, make detours for safety or avoid certain areas, demographics, infrastructures or times of the day. We may walk together for solidarity or walk alone to escape. We may not walk at all. Join our panel of women as we riff on themes of play, presence, purpose, privilege and permission, and share your experiences of how women walk, including the positive, negative, challenging and playful. (Please note: Men are welcome, but this is a session to hear the voices of women or those who identify as women.) JOIN THIS LIVE EVENT HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83957524590?pwd=bmphaEVzaVY2cGxVMm84bVM3NllYdz09 |
17:00 - Stefano Cossu, Elia Rita, Jody Oberfelder and Ute Villavicencio - 'Distributed Dance Horizons'.
Elia, Jody and Stefano met at a 4WCoP2020 ‘Soapbox’ presentation. They subsequently founded Distributed Dance Body (DDB - http://distributeddancebody.net), a decentralized collective of creative individuals aiming to rethink dance club culture and challenge social relations encoded in the body language of club patrons. The panel will discuss DDB's philosophies; infiltrating dance floors; rethinking contemporary dance with a primitive mindset; breaking and making circles; Pocket Discos as autonomous dance party units; pervasive DIY; pandemic-time ‘socially distanced’ experiments by high-profile artists; post-pandemic opportunities to reshape social dancing - and being sweaty, ridiculous and untethered. (Participants in the USA and Canada please note this session starts at 17:00BST or 12:00 PM Eastern Time). JOIN THIS LIVE EVENT HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6768307079?pwd=VjUyaFhPcGozS2ZMdGZSekpxcXRSQT09 (Meeting ID: 676 830 7079, Passcode: dance). |
18:00 - Helen Garbett and Bill Laybourne - 'The Revolution Booth.'
The Revolution Booth is temporarily erected on the Monarch’s Way, a long distance footpath that traces the pursuit of Charles II across the English countryside in 1651. Passers-by are invited into the booth and respond to prompts that playfully inquire into the nature of revolution and their experience of contemporary revolutions in technology, identity and culture. Watch the artists’ short film documenting the project, then join them live online to find out more. Please arrive promptly before 18:10, having already watched the film. The waiting room will be open from 18:00. JOIN THE LIVE EVENT HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89496014224?pwd=UkJHdVJRUjJLdHFnc0JHREZhRVVPQT09 |
18:30 - Richard Byrne, Clemence Debaig and David Upton - 'MOOZ - Playing out with Zoom.'
Is it possible to play real games over Zoom? How much do we really understand the platform, and how does it affect our interactions? What do we learn about ourselves if we try? How do we know if we're winning? Is Zoom safe to use for important things, like work or psychogeography? Why all these questions? Join the Mooz team in 15 minute games, familiar and unfamiliar, and find out. Book via Eventbrite asap to receive a Zoom link. Game rules will be explained for those who don't know them already. Sessions will be recorded. LIMITED PLACES - BOOK THIS SESSION IN ADVANCE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mooz-playing-out-with-zoom-a-discussion-on-virtual-psychogeography-tickets-168314630591 |
There is an hour's break scheduled between 18:45 and 19:45.