Got a printers proof for the book I’ve produced for ‘School Looks Around: Dartmoor’. The book features a series of textual posters, poems, photographs, a map and audio CD that provides a soundtrack in response to Dartmoor.
My field recordings of sounds from Burton Bradstock beach have been played on kuow.org 94.9fm radio program Sounds of the Summer.
In the research for my recent residency in Dartmoor, two things stood out that formed the basis for the work produced. One was how culturally we tend to think of landscapes as natural phenomenon, with some inherent quality that exists outside our understanding and ownership of them, even though humans have altered almost all of the British landscape in some way. The other was this quote: “Geography imposes arbitrary lines upon territories that are essentially continuous. Everyday life fixes these lines in place by reiterating the performance on which the permanence of this delimitation depends.”
Open publication – Free publishing – More industry Landscape and Industry exhibition catalog
