posted on 2020-06-16, 16:54authored byRichard S. White
Honouring Esther. Documentary materials from the two cycles of walks, Somerset, UK 2015 and Lower Saxony, Germany 2016.
Project Outline: The
route of a Nazi Death March traced and transposed to Somerset, returned
and re-traced in Lower Saxony, Germany. Experimentation with media and
juxtaposed registers of walking forms part of Richard White’s
investigation of walking art as social justice intervention. Social
media. Curated media. Somatic activity. Honouring Esther accessed formal
and informal survivor testimony of a Nazi death march.
This item contains documentation of the live phase of the walks:
In this item: A selection of
briefings and promotional material and images documenting
the live phase of the walking arts project 'Honouring Esther' in
Germany and in England. Sample of testimony used on the walk. Images
from the live relay of the progress of the walk in Germany and related
social media trail to Bath Spa University mediawall (Feb 2016). Further
images show route development including
the 'entwined' routes created through the transposition of the Death
March route from Germany to Somerset and the establishment of 10
stopping places at the point of intersection.
Project Outline: The
route of a Nazi Death March traced and transposed to Somerset, returned
and re-traced in Lower Saxony, Germany. Experimentation with media and
juxtaposed registers of walking forms part of Richard White’s
investigation of walking art as social justice intervention. Social
media. Curated media. Somatic activity. Honouring Esther accessed formal
and informal survivor testimony of a Nazi death march.