posted on 2020-06-16, 16:48authored byRichard S. White
Honouring Esther 2015-17
This item contains additional installation media not linked into the thesis as separate files:
This item: short
films made for installation using field recordings, archive and
participants' social media from the Somerset UK walks and/or the Lower
Saxony, Germany walks. The media was made for installations at the 44AD
Gallery in Bath after the Somerset walks (2015) and developed with new
content for the 2017 show after retracing the actual route of the death
march to Belsen Esther Brunstein survived. The media was intended to be
show on a distorting surface creating further folds and pleats in the
viewing experience. Some of the items use assets gathered in Somerset
2015, some integrate sequences from these with new material gathered in
Germany and some are solely from the walks in Germany. Video is
compressed, higher resolution files can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/album/3448570
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.