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Blog: All about walking

  • Rustling in the leaves in Sydney Gardens, Bath November 25, 2021
  • Shout out for trees in parks and public gardens! September 29, 2021
  • 3 cheers for walking, writing and listening July 1, 2021
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GPS - a geo-poetic system rather than global positioning system
Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being 'landscape-mindscape-bodyscape' (2017).
Submitted by: Lucy Frears

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