10.17870/bathspa.12003792.v1
Richard S. White
Richard S.
White
Sweet Waters live phase documentation
BathSPAdata
2020
walking arts
heritage
legacies of slaveownership
walking-with
research-creation
Heritage and Cultural Conservation
Performance and Installation Art
Heritage and cultural conservation
Performance art
2020-06-16 16:54:59
Dataset
https://data.bathspa.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Sweet_Waters_live_phase_documentation/12003792
<div>Documentation of the walking art project</div><div><br></div><div><b>SWEET WATERS 2016-17: sense-ing legacies of slave-ownership in Bath and along the River Avon</b></div><div><br><div><b>Project Outline:</b>
Developed over an 18 month period involving over 50 walkers and many
hundreds online, Sweet Waters was part of Richard White’s ongoing
investigation of walking arts as social justice intervention, developing
tactics for articulating and materialising corporeal experience and
affective resonance. The project resonates with UNESCO World Heritage
programmes, specifically attending to legacies of slave-ownership. The
project was commissioned for Bath Festival Fringe, funded by Arts
Council England with support from Bath Spa University, Festival of
Nature and Fringe Arts Bath. An installation at a heritage site, Saltford Brass Mill, followed
as part of Museums Week and Journey to Justice Bristol. Participation
was extended using social media with trails generated live and
aggregated. Referencing body fluids and the memory of water folded in
an understanding of the water cycle, the project generates insights and
observations on volatile and porous bodies (Longhurst 2001), the power
of things and memory making practices (Micieli-Voutsinas 2016; Bennett
2010).</div><div><br></div><div><b>This item</b> includes documentary images captured by the author and by walkers, a screen grab of the aggregated social media trails and a podcast from Avon Stories as sound track to a slide show of documentary images. The podcast, Avon Stories 10 was recorded with Sarah Connelly during one of the walks, reproduced here with permission, details below.<br></div><div><br></div><div><p><b>website/blog</b>: <a href="http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/sweet-waters.html">http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/sweet-waters.html</a></p><br><p>Aggregated Social media trail via Social Hiking</p><p><a href="http://www.shareyouradventure.com/map/73087/walknowlive/Sweet-Waters-June17">http://www.shareyouradventure.com/map/73087/walknowlive/Sweet-Waters-June17</a></p></div>Sweet Waters videos also available here https://vimeo.com/showcase/548893</div><div><br></div><div><b>Avon Stories</b><br></div><div>https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-a-sweet-waters-art-walk-with-richard-white/id1244393926?i=1000390796360&mt=2<br><br>From Avon Stories<br>A podcast and art project by Sarah Connolly<br>8 Aug 2017<br><br>A Sweet Waters art-walk with Richard White<br><br>https://avonstories.com/2017/08/08/avon-stories-10-richard-white/<br><div><br> </div></div>