Free entry
Thu 30 Jul, 8.00-10.30pm
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Between 2004 and 2010 walkwalkwalk: an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten (Gail Burton, Serena Korda, Clare Qualmann) scored a repeated route of shared nightwalking through the streets of East London. The mapped route, created from their urban routines, invited others to re-walk and just walk, with no destination purpose. The project collected, collated, and re-presented artefacts and stories from the shifting edges and over-looked details as an archaeology.
It is 21 years since the first walk, and 16 since the last – titled ‘Things that have gone’. walkwalkwalk invite you to join them to walk the original route, with a commemorative re-issue of the map, and add to the archaeology of things that have gone.
The route is approximately 2 miles, with pauses along the way. Participants will be invited to put their phones aside and experience the walk unmediated. Annotated maps and anecdotes are welcomed.
This event is part of Backyard Biennial.
Gail Burton is an artist with a long-standing interest in how her body connects to place and history. Her work explores how language, ritual/repetition and gesture/movement are a means to uncover and attach to her environment, and in turn ‘inscribe’ history and story.
Clare Qualmann is a London based artist/researcher whose work focuses on site specific and experimental modes of creative production, often using walking. Her practice explores the interconnections between art, activism and the radical potentials of participation.
Walking! Power! Inclusion! is multi-disciplinary team of artists, curators and researchers brought together by the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities, to co-design and deliver inclusive public engagement. This collaborative project explores ideas of power, inclusion and conviviality, and our ability to live together despite difference. For the Backyard Biennial, Walking! Power! Inclusion! has programmed a series of walks and workshops that invite visitors, local residents, and diasporic communities to democratise storytelling in the city; confront the line between private and public space; use photography to shift narratives; and explore Whitechapel with curiosity, creativity and criticality. Project members include Manal Massahla, Saira Niazi, Alisa Oleva, Ella Parry-Davies, Lorna Powell, Clare Qualmann, and Morag Rose.
