The Wander Score: Strategies for Writing Texts, Scripts and Scores for Creative Walking Experiences
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 273
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Walking performances manifested in two artists' books
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2018
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4567/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This submission is of two connected publications – Ways to Wander (2015) and Ways to Wander the Gallery (2018) – which curate a diverse range of material in order to examine the relationship between walking and writing. Drawing on the traditions of instructional performance and the Fluxus movement, the underpinning research questions for The Wander Score project were:
1. How might walking experiences be scored creatively on a page?
2. How might that score develop from embodied intervention?
Developed collaboratively by Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann, The Wander Score invites artists to mark a page creatively, directly from their own experience of walking, and for others to explore that walk in their own way. These scores, illustrated in the first book Ways to Wander, were submitted by artists who were given strict limitations to design a one-page score. The limitation paradoxically produced a freedom of expression, including varied artistic styles and inventive proposals for new ways of engaging with walking that Hind and Qualmann discuss as correspondence in the book.
Insights from this first book were disseminated at Tate Modern during a summer school (July 2017). This generated further research activity for wandering workshops inside the gallery, with participants invited to explore the gallery on foot in creative ways. Experiences revealed how walking ‘with’ the artworks as an embodied intervention prompted multiple tracing experiences. For example, by following the lines of an artwork, mimicking the layers of a painting in their own body, participants walked the artwork as if it were a score for movement. Key insights revealed that playful and varied ways of wandering a gallery encouraged an actualised experience of engaging with art. These ideas are unpacked in the essay of the second book, Ways to Wander the Gallery and illustrated in scores by the participants.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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