A collaboration with Katja Hock. Part of Bodied Languages: Moving | Feeling | Sensing, a series of corporeal, experiential encounters with language through participatory workshops and collective actions. Research Pavilion #3: Research Ecologies. In the context of the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia http://www.researchpavilion.fi/
A soundwalk at Nottingham Contemporary composed in relation to solo exhibitions from Elizabeth Price and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
The soundwalk from 2016 revisited
The Returns project returned to Stoke-on-Trent at Airspace Gallery, including artefacts and associated stories created by groups of refugees and asylum seekers, participants in a series of workshops in Stoke and Nottingham during Summer 2018. The soundwalk OpenCity Stoke took place on the opening night as an artist-led walk and subsequently as an app.
OpenCity Nine Elms is part of the programme for Art Night, London’s largest free contemporary arts festival, transforming the city annually for one unforgettable night with a series of artist projects in extraordinary locations http://artnight.london
A soundwalk commissioned by curator Rosie Hermon, part of the Winter Trails: Remapping Nine Elms festival. Participants were led together on an accessible and immersive soundwalk through the area undergoing massive redevelopment. Within the augmented reality of the soundwalk opportunities are created for personal speculation on place, time and the processes of change. The map and soundfile for the walk are available here to enable the walk to be performed independently. http://nineelmslondon.com/events/winter-trails-remapping-nine-elms/opencity-nine-elms
Part of the No Telos residency
To mark the bicentenary of the ill-fated Pentrich revolt sound artist Andrew Brown composed three soundwalks, each a creative response to the events of June 1817. Fellow artists collaborating on the project include Leigh Toro, Agnes Williams, Benedik Williams, Alasdair Thurston-Ambrose and Harry Freestone.
https://soundcloud.com/beechbuchanan/south-wingfield-1
A movie-inspired Manhattan soundwalk
25 January 2017
A soundwalk made with students from the Kungliga Konsthögskolan
An accompanied sound walk starting at QUAD, part of the UK Young Artists festival, composed by Liv Carlin-Thompson, Charlotte Marron, Alison Squires, Emily Stollery, Demi Hill, Miriam Willott and Harry Walker, all students from the Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University. The walk took participants through and around the topographies of the city, exploring and playing with our habitual perceptions http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk/workshops/2016/11/5/andrew-brown-sound-walk
A soundwalk as part of UrbanTOPIAS. Discussing the Challenges of Changing Cities.
The 4th Annual Conference of the International Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York-Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present” http://urbantopias.metropolitanstudies.de
An app-based soundwalk collaboration with visual artist, Geoff Diego Litherland and photographer George Miles for the Wirksworth Festival 2016, commissioned by D-Lab, a digital art project bringing the best new media artists and artworks to a live audience.
A soundwalk composed in collaboration with Lise Olsen, Demi Hill and Emily Stollery as part of the Spaces of Uncertainty Summer Academy taking place at the Württembergische Kunstverein. The map and soundfiles for the walk are available here to enable the walk to be performed independently.http://www.spacesofuncertainty.info
A soundwalk composed with Alexei Vesselov, Maria Anders, Sarah Küper, Hua Guo, Sina Hesse, Jan Giese, Lena Döbber, Alex Westhoven, students from Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
An exhibition 'In Return' at Sheffield Institute of Arts (SIA) Gallery, part of Returns, an ongoing project by a group of artist researchers from Sheffield Hallam University and Nottingham Trent University, exploring the legacy of post industrial landscapes and production.
A selection of images of OpenCity actions that took place in and around Nottingham, shown on digital display screens in a pedestrian walkway, Broadmarsh bus station
A soundwalk of possible soundtracks, composed in response to photographs exhibited in In Place of Architecture, curated by Fiona Maclaren and Andy Lock, Bonington gallery
A guided soundwalk taking place through Aix-en-Provence in which sounds of the city were sampled from and re-placed in the urban landscape. Developed through a two-week workshop with student artists Lise Godard and Lee Juhyung, the walk responded to the specificities of site and to the social/cultural context of the city. Shown as part of the Mobile Audio Fest organised by research group Locus Sonus http://maf.locusonus.org/
A Budapest walk transplanted to Paris
Invited to perform a research talk under the Platform series within the College of Art, Design and the Built Environment at NTU, I responded with a short (10-minute) soundwalk, taking a route through the Arkwright and Newton buildings, beginning and ending in Ark110, a room rebuilt after its complete destruction during the 8 May bombing raid on Nottingham in 1941. The sound interwove recent site-recordings and sounds associated with the site’s academic history, before unleashing a loud and cacophonous explosion at its conclusion.
Returns is an on-going collaboration that forms part of an international research project Topographies of the Obsolete, initiated in 2012 by Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway, which focused on the disused Spode ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent. (http://www.boningtongallery.co.uk/exhibitions/returns)
I showed a ropelight piece, comprised of a tangle of Christmas lights from the Spode site, in addition to a 20-minute soundwalk in which participants were invited to explore the Bonington gallery and its immediate vicinity. I combined recent in-situ recordings with archive and other sound, culminating in a huge explosion in the spot where a bomb fell in May 1941, effectively leaving the corner a bombsite to this day.
9 December 2014
Part of the NTU Fine Art Winter Lodge residency/retreat at Ilam Hall in Staffordshire, I devised a 90 minute soundwalk, inspired by Kay Dick’s novel ‘They’ and a recent reading of her work at Foredown Water Tower in Portslade (http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/they-a-sequence-of-unease-by-kay-dick/). This building houses a camera obscura, providing a curiously detached view of the surrounding landscape, which heightened the effect of her cool evocations of a dystopian version of the South Downs.
Moving from village to city in my late teens, and recently returning to the countryside via la France profonde, I recognize that I have probably been a victim, even a proponent, of rural myth. But I gain some reassurance from the knowledge that the sublime and romantic are less interesting to me than the existential realities of rurality and the alienation engendered by both city and rural life. The countryside has long been an industrial zone, albeit with fewer fellow humans to contend with.
The Ilam walk aroused in participants a sense of threat and of a ‘haunted’ landscape, and described the strange collective that we made for passers-by.
4 & 5 December 2014
As part of the Spaces of Uncertainty exhibition at MKE (http://www.spacesofuncertainty.info/), I presented a 50 minute soundwalk, that started outside the Gelert Hotel, crossed the Liberty Bridge and progressed through the Central market to a nearby park. Along the route recordings captured a few days previously combined with contemporaneous ambient sound and archival recordings to give an impression of a disconcerting slippage of time.
4 November 2014
I revived the original Island walk for a group of NTU Fine Art students.
27 September 2014
Part of the B_Tour Festival (http://www.b-tour.org/b_tour-belgrade.html) I composed a soundwalk loosely based on the 1999 NATO bombing pattern, leading participants from the rendezvous at the Ušće Shopping Centre, across the Zemunski bridge past the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defence to Manjež Park. Sounds encountered along the route included a Salieri fanfare as we crossed the river and entered the ‘White City’, and a raucous pedal bar (reflecting the annoying drunken Brits that seem to have been following me around Europe for decades).
10 September 2014
Taking the opportunity of being in Tilburg with students participating in the European Apprentice/Master project http://apprentice-master.com/ I devised and led a soundwalk from the Centraal Station to the MTS-terrein, a site 'adopted' by the international Wasteland Twinning Project (http://wasteland-twinning.net/). In the open space of the parkland, with eyes closed, a boisterous football match seemed to be being played around us, before the scrubby grass transformed into corridors, down which lonely footsteps walked, evoking the long-since demolished asylum for the elderly, formerly on the site
B_Tour festival, Berlin
Seen from a train
A walk performed with eyes closed across the park
Me and my shadow(s)
17 December 2013
Soundwalk beginning and ending at Bohunk Institute, Nottingham
Camera tig and slow walk as part of 'Art in Urban Context' at KHiB in Bergen, Norway
26 October 2013
Soundwalks I & II included in the 'By the Way' exhibition at Bohunk Institute, Nottingham
A sound walk 'A walk through S'
a video 'walk' entitled 'Decalcomania'
and an installation '6/11/2008'
shown at the Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void exhibition at the former Spode factory site, as part of the British Ceramics Biennial.
A workshop in which a line was passed via eye contact between participants at the Arts in Society Conference, Budapest
Instructional images and texts, part of a group show 'Alignment' curated by Leila Al-Yousuf at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
An 80-minute walk as part of the ‘Revisiting the Art of Walking’ seminar, ACLA Annual Meeting, University of Toronto
The Broadcaster (http://www.postmethodists.org/page2.htm) invited walking artists Alison Lloyd and Andrew Brown to create work for the two chapel noticeboards in the Lincolnshire villages of Waddington and Wellingore. In addition a walk took place with participants invited to assemble at either noticeboard to walk the six-mile route following the Viking Way between the two noticeboards, engaging in performative actions along the way. http://bywellingtontowaddingore.wordpress.com/
Alison's website is located at: http://contemporaryartofwalking.com/
A 35-minute walk for delegates at the 'Art et Géographie – Esthétiques et pratiques des savoirs spatiaux' Conference
January 24 2013
A walk performed with eyes closed across the frozen Lake Lille Lungegårdsvann
A return to the site of the Meat Grinder performance walk of 1997 (see below)
The Green Man
A walk to the hilltop overlooking the Trent Valley.
Review by Emma Lloyd
A publication curated by Charlotte Seidel and Emile Ouromov, assembled, forwarded and then printed out on the printers of partner venues in Zurich, Weimar, Paris and Bangkok. The pile of printouts, produced each time in one single copy, are made available to the visitors who remain free to simply have a look or to take a sample home – until stock lasts. The design of OpenCity’s contribution relates to the frustration derived from absurd or ‘impossible’ instructions and futile actions. Through this a critical position is generated, applicable to discourse concerning power relations in general
A circular performance walk of approximately 2 hours duration involving green tea, path drawings and extensive periods of walking with eyes closed
A recording of the Marrakech souk transplanted to Copenhagen
A recording transplanted from Nottingham to Venice
Phase III began on the A453 in Clifton and ended in playing fields near the A52
'Beating the Bounds' II (Wollaton to Clifton) continued the walk around Nottingham's boundary
As part of Summer Lodge 2011, 'Beating the Bounds' phase I (from Colwick Park to Wollaton) saw ten participants part-circumnavigate the city of Nottingham, performing actions along and across its boundary with adjoining boroughs
A set of envelopes containing instructions for actions to be performed along the city wall were left at York St John University, York Tourist Information Centre and York Art Gallery
An attempt to get lost in Barnsley
Instructions for performance actions in the Quad at York St John University were passed onto participants in the form of whispers, each person being asked to 'pass it on'
Part of the 'Wanderlust' group exhibition in the Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University
Part of the 'Wanderlust' exhibition at NTU, postcards containing instructions were left for people to pick up and read. Also a poster on a nearby noticeboard invited participation from passers-by
Part of Summer Lodge residency at NTU
As part of the 'Play Me' event at Space 109, Walmgate postcards containing instructions were left for people to pick up and read. Also a poster invited participation, and fellow artists were given cards designed to intervene in their performances
An attempt to get lost in Worksop
A performance walk that never quite manages to leave the studio at York St John University
A performance walk led by ipod recording on a circuit taking in Lord Mayor's Walk, York Minster and Gillygate
As part of NTU Fine Art's Summer lodge, performance actions at venues around Nottinghamshire including The Park Estate, Market Square, Rufford Park, Sherwood Pines, Trowell Services on M1
Part of Art Crawl, devised and performed with Katie Doubleday, an evening performance walk led by ipod recording leading a group on a circuit around Nottingham city centre
Part of Radiator Festival 'Exploits in the Wireless City', devised and performed with Katie Doubleday, this performance walk was led by ipod recording on a circuit taking in Broadway Media Centre, Clumber Street, Market Square and Hockley. Sound file can be downloaded at http://www.radiator-festival.org/downloads
5 minute synchronous performance near Magnac Bourg (France) & Nottingham, devised and performed with Katie Doubleday
An attempt to get lost in Yokohama, performed with the assistance of Emma Ota and Fiona Tan, involving being led blindfold across the city and then left in a back garden
Sarah Duffy lying down on the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world
Collective stillness
Attempting to get lost employing diverse strategies such as following strangers, and throwing dice
An attempt to get lost in the Western suburb of Takao
Performed at Musashino Arts University, including slow walking and group stillness
A performance walk with a camera in the footsteps of photographer Guy M. Denison around Nottingham, 34 years after his book 'Nottingham Old and New' was published
As part of nottdance07 Open City (Andrew Brown, Katie Doubleday & Simone Kenyon in association with Emma Cocker) were commissioned to produce:
Slow walk alongside the Council House
Lunchtime actions
Performance lecture, Broadway Media Centre
Postcards with critical texts and instructions for performance actions http://www.rhizomes.net/issue21/cocker/index.html
Practitioners' workshop, Preset, Nottingham
Based at Preset and funded by Arts Council England, an Open City arts laboratory took place devised and conducted by Andrew Brown, Katie Doubleday & Simone Kenyon, including:
Not crossing
Dawn walk from Bestwood to Nottingham Market Square
A walk led by a digital recording around the seaside town of Burnham on Sea
An ordeal of a walk led by a surly guide through the former Gedling colliery site & nearby railway tunnel
A circuit from/to Victoria Studios, Nottingham Trent University via the cemetary, The Park tunnel and Derby Road