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Welcome to The 4WCoP UniversityWhere you’ll find (mostly) academic presentations, workshops and seminars
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The 4WCoP Uni sessions will run live, mostly on Friday 4th September... Details are still being finalised...
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Friday 4th
12:00 - Session One
Welcome to the 4WCoP Uni - Carl Meddings welcomes participants
Writing from walking; walking from writing; how to start - Aled Singleton & Jon Gower
Jon and Aled ask if we can connect with some qualities and sensations of the walk without physically leaving the room.
Side-by-side, Aled and Jon explore folk tales, walking, motor cars and nature. We start as Jon remembers his mother making bird noises when she had dementia. In 2018 Aled’s father died and he faced de-constructing the family home in Caerleon, Wales. Jon helped Aled to follow lines from the family house and prepare a psychogeographic deep-mapping of Caerleon. In a series of walks which lasted through to November 2019 we pursue drifts (or dérive) inspired by a Triumph Vitesse, Arthur Machen, lapwings, shale lorries and more. We invite the audience to choose stories from a selection of short video clips. JOIN ON ZOOM.
Bedroom - https://vimeo.com/442657430 - model aeroplanes (about wider horizons)
Living room - https://vimeo.com/442657623 - the magic of Postman Pat (about letting go)
Garage - https://vimeo.com/442636868 - Morris Minor (about making promises + poem)
Top garden - https://vimeo.com/443316985 Triumph Vitesse (about young men and their cars + poem)
The role of illness in the perception of space in architectural precincts - Donal Fitzpatrick and Liu Peng
The now familiar trope of ‘stay in your homes’ becomes a redefinition of interior space. Safe inside / unsafe outside. After the lockdown cafes can open in France but only outside, = (Interior dangerous, exterior safe). By considering the role of public spaces such as ‘the forbidden city’ in Beijing, as a physical public monument that exist to be traversed, walked in mass public space; we examine the specific role of illness in affecting the perception of such spaces and their role in the public consciousness of the urban city dweller.
2:30pm - Session Two
Meandering in an algorithmic autonomous vehicular future - Saurabh Nimsarkar
Are we being manipulated and traveling from point A to Point B to the tune of modern-day hidden algorithms? We are living in an age of information civilization of transportation that is oriented towards optimization, efficiency, productivity, human error mitigation, repeatability, and standardization - further tuning, herding, and manipulating our behavior for profit imperative alienating us from our everyday experiences. This proposal explores the overlap of psychogeography, surveillance capitalism, and speculative design as a medium, firstly, to critique the dominant narrative of data-driven algorithmic transportation and, secondly, highlight future plausible and possible attitudes and discourses.
Liminal Neighborhoods - billy cancel and Genevieve Thursday Fernworthy
COVID19 themed expansions and contractions in the liminal neighborhoods of North Brooklyn and Queens.
This project examines some psycho geographical highlights of the recent COVID themed months, primarily within the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint as well as adjoining Blissville and Williamsburg. Attention is given to adjustments in the use of surrounding public space and its subsequent effects on spatial relationships, as well as subjective art projects, media and cultural consumption. Thursday Fernworthy also demonstrates how she was able to take advantage of conditions to utilize her contingent work office into a liminal cultural venue. Presentation followed by a live Q & A session.
4pm - Session Three
Maps Against Non-Culture Part 1 - Arba Bekteshi
This exercise aims to bring together psychogeographers, cartographers, schizocartographers and people of different backgrounds, such as anthropologists, heritage specialists, architects, designers, artists and anyone that would like to draw, sound-register, write, narrate and manipulate different spatio-temporal maps of (im)possible walk itineraries, to reflect on the destruction of (bio)cultural fields and landmarks in favour of non-places.
Sunday 6th 12:30 - Session Four
Maps Against Non-Culture Part 2 - Arba Bekteshi
Another chance to take part in Friday’s unique participatory workshop or to share what you have mapped since Friday.
AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME DURING THE CONGRESS
’One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’: Hickson Steps, Sydney, Australia - Patrick S. Ford and Nina Yiu Lai Lei
In this performance Patrick S. Ford takes on the role of another Sisyphean character, this time attempting to scale a flight of stairs. The performance opens as he is about to take the final step and thereby reach the summit. Unfortunately, as he takes what he expects to be the final step he is compelled to take two further steps back. Ford proceeds to make another attempt to reach the summit only to find himself taking two more steps back. Further attempts follow and this process is repeated until Ford finds himself back at the base of the steps.
SESSIONS AT OTHER TIMES
The Huddersfield Walks - Memory Guided Virtual Routes - Simon Woolham - TBC
IMPORTANT: ONLY 5 PARTICIPANTS IN TOTAL. SIGN-UP ESSENTIAL VIA THE 4WCOP FACEBOOK PAGE.
Online, five selected participants will meet the artist and lecturer Dr Simon Woolham and start a collaborative journey from where they were born or where they spent the majority of their formative years. From this place the participant and Simon will walk towards where memory guides. There will be five 50 minute virtual walks throughout Friday with time slots on the hour at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm - BOOK EARLY, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. INSERT BOOKING/SIGN-UP LINK. The process is experienced virtually and recorded using Skype, Google Earth and Debut, a screen capturing programme.
12:00 - Session One
Welcome to the 4WCoP Uni - Carl Meddings welcomes participants
Writing from walking; walking from writing; how to start - Aled Singleton & Jon Gower
Jon and Aled ask if we can connect with some qualities and sensations of the walk without physically leaving the room.
Side-by-side, Aled and Jon explore folk tales, walking, motor cars and nature. We start as Jon remembers his mother making bird noises when she had dementia. In 2018 Aled’s father died and he faced de-constructing the family home in Caerleon, Wales. Jon helped Aled to follow lines from the family house and prepare a psychogeographic deep-mapping of Caerleon. In a series of walks which lasted through to November 2019 we pursue drifts (or dérive) inspired by a Triumph Vitesse, Arthur Machen, lapwings, shale lorries and more. We invite the audience to choose stories from a selection of short video clips. JOIN ON ZOOM.
Bedroom - https://vimeo.com/442657430 - model aeroplanes (about wider horizons)
Living room - https://vimeo.com/442657623 - the magic of Postman Pat (about letting go)
Garage - https://vimeo.com/442636868 - Morris Minor (about making promises + poem)
Top garden - https://vimeo.com/443316985 Triumph Vitesse (about young men and their cars + poem)
The role of illness in the perception of space in architectural precincts - Donal Fitzpatrick and Liu Peng
The now familiar trope of ‘stay in your homes’ becomes a redefinition of interior space. Safe inside / unsafe outside. After the lockdown cafes can open in France but only outside, = (Interior dangerous, exterior safe). By considering the role of public spaces such as ‘the forbidden city’ in Beijing, as a physical public monument that exist to be traversed, walked in mass public space; we examine the specific role of illness in affecting the perception of such spaces and their role in the public consciousness of the urban city dweller.
2:30pm - Session Two
Meandering in an algorithmic autonomous vehicular future - Saurabh Nimsarkar
Are we being manipulated and traveling from point A to Point B to the tune of modern-day hidden algorithms? We are living in an age of information civilization of transportation that is oriented towards optimization, efficiency, productivity, human error mitigation, repeatability, and standardization - further tuning, herding, and manipulating our behavior for profit imperative alienating us from our everyday experiences. This proposal explores the overlap of psychogeography, surveillance capitalism, and speculative design as a medium, firstly, to critique the dominant narrative of data-driven algorithmic transportation and, secondly, highlight future plausible and possible attitudes and discourses.
Liminal Neighborhoods - billy cancel and Genevieve Thursday Fernworthy
COVID19 themed expansions and contractions in the liminal neighborhoods of North Brooklyn and Queens.
This project examines some psycho geographical highlights of the recent COVID themed months, primarily within the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint as well as adjoining Blissville and Williamsburg. Attention is given to adjustments in the use of surrounding public space and its subsequent effects on spatial relationships, as well as subjective art projects, media and cultural consumption. Thursday Fernworthy also demonstrates how she was able to take advantage of conditions to utilize her contingent work office into a liminal cultural venue. Presentation followed by a live Q & A session.
4pm - Session Three
Maps Against Non-Culture Part 1 - Arba Bekteshi
This exercise aims to bring together psychogeographers, cartographers, schizocartographers and people of different backgrounds, such as anthropologists, heritage specialists, architects, designers, artists and anyone that would like to draw, sound-register, write, narrate and manipulate different spatio-temporal maps of (im)possible walk itineraries, to reflect on the destruction of (bio)cultural fields and landmarks in favour of non-places.
Sunday 6th 12:30 - Session Four
Maps Against Non-Culture Part 2 - Arba Bekteshi
Another chance to take part in Friday’s unique participatory workshop or to share what you have mapped since Friday.
AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME DURING THE CONGRESS
’One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’: Hickson Steps, Sydney, Australia - Patrick S. Ford and Nina Yiu Lai Lei
In this performance Patrick S. Ford takes on the role of another Sisyphean character, this time attempting to scale a flight of stairs. The performance opens as he is about to take the final step and thereby reach the summit. Unfortunately, as he takes what he expects to be the final step he is compelled to take two further steps back. Ford proceeds to make another attempt to reach the summit only to find himself taking two more steps back. Further attempts follow and this process is repeated until Ford finds himself back at the base of the steps.
SESSIONS AT OTHER TIMES
The Huddersfield Walks - Memory Guided Virtual Routes - Simon Woolham - TBC
IMPORTANT: ONLY 5 PARTICIPANTS IN TOTAL. SIGN-UP ESSENTIAL VIA THE 4WCOP FACEBOOK PAGE.
Online, five selected participants will meet the artist and lecturer Dr Simon Woolham and start a collaborative journey from where they were born or where they spent the majority of their formative years. From this place the participant and Simon will walk towards where memory guides. There will be five 50 minute virtual walks throughout Friday with time slots on the hour at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm - BOOK EARLY, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. INSERT BOOKING/SIGN-UP LINK. The process is experienced virtually and recorded using Skype, Google Earth and Debut, a screen capturing programme.