Friday Connect: Making By Moving

Andres Amador's large scale Beach Drawings.

This post (meandering online on Saturday) contains projects that create meaning by moving through space, either with walks, drawings, or projects that document these types of activities. One way to develop a relationship to the place you live in is to physically move through that place–putting one foot in front of another creates direct contact and meaning with the world around you. Once a relationship starts, the possibility to think ecologically about the environment where you live becomes easier.

Pia Rönicke and Nis Rømer are Gåafstand (Walking Distance). The artist duo explore relationships to space and architecture with long walks. This is an ongoing collaboration that the artists participate in occasionally. They are currently developing a new project as part of an upcoming art festival in Copenhagen, Visit Tingbjerg. Nis has been featured on the MQ before with another collaboration, Field Work.

What would travel be like in the United States if there were a high speed rail? How can we come to terms with our relationships to the land? This project, a long walk through California, tracing the route of a proposed high speed rail line, was made by brothers, Travis and Adam Souza. We Make The Road by Walking.

Another California based project, this exhibition, book, and website represents a collaboration between artists, writers, architects and scientists on the subject of California’s Water. A beautiful interdisciplinary investigation of how water is used and distributed and how these things could be done better. We are interested in developing projects that involve creative people across disciplines to rethink our relationship with the environment.  Water California

Our friends Sarah Ross and Ryan Griffis have recently started a subscription based curatorial project about our relationship to place. Their focus is the Midwestern United States, but the sensibilities and thought behind this project are useful in thinking about what makes a place–from resource use, to food distribution, to social constructions. Plus–if you subscribe you receive, lovely little art pieces in your mailbox.  Regional Relationships.

Finally, a mix for when you are walking around your neighborhood.

Picture credit from here.