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<![CDATA[HAMILTON PERAMBULATORY UNIT - BLOG]]>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:50:40 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Floating Relics: A Cinematic Walkshop in Search of Niagara]]>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:48:57 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/floating-relics-a-cinematic-walkshop-in-search-of-niagara

As part of the Mighty Niagara Film Festival on August 24th, join us for a strata-walk around St. Catharines followed by a rooftop screening at the Niagara Artists Centre!

The participatory mapping exercise, led by researchers Taien Ng-Chan, Lee Rodney, and Donna Akrey, will take its prompts from the mediated history of the region. A walk-book will be provided for participants with creative questions, prompts, and drawing spaces, and the walkshop will loop back to the NAC to conclude with an experimental screening presentation.

The screening is an experimental film developed with the NAC’s historical archives. Spanning from the 1950s-1990s, the Jacobs’ Family home film collection captures the shifting landscape of St. Catharines and the Niagara borderlands through the lens of a local family. Curators Christina Dovolis and Cleo Sallis-Parchet worked with the archive to unravel, digitize, and thread narratives related to the materiality of borders and kinship.

This event is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Niagara Artists Center, Archive/Counter-Archive, University of Windsor, Brock University, York University, IN/TERMINUS, and The Hamilton Perambulatory Unit.

Trailer link: https://vimeo.com/738092651
Event page link: https://nac.org/event/sweet-sixteen-millimetre-free-event/

]]><![CDATA[Critical Mass 2020 Port Hope Soundscapes]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/critical-mass-2020-port-hope-soundscapes

HPU has been selected by Critical Mass: A Centre for Contemporary Art to create and develop immersive soundscape experiences played through a GPS-guided walking app in Port Hope. This project was made possible with funding from Ontario Trillium Foundation. Stay tuned to hear the distinct and unique sounds of the Port Hope community captured by HPU in 2021!

Critical Mass: A Centre for Contemporary Art brings contemporary art to our community for all to experience because we believe art stirs our feelings and challenges how we see the world and our place within it. Their mission for the 2020 Port Hope Soundscapes project is to provide socially-engaged sound artists with an opportunity to play an active role in our community — creating art experiences that will help shape the cultural vibrancy of Port Hope.
http://criticalmassart.com/soundscape-project-overview/

]]><![CDATA[Talk: Art Gallery of Hamilton]]>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/talk-art-gallery-of-hamilton

The HPU team gave an introductory talk at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on walking and mapping as a method of creative and social exploration, including a mapmaking session to chart the past, present and future of this very particular site in downtown Hamilton. The findings from this walk were displayed at the AGH as part of Hamilton Now: Object exhibition, and also contributed to the Stratigraphic City (Hamilton) video installation by Taien Ng-Chan, displayed along new work by Donna Akrey!

]]><![CDATA[Reading Group: Archiving Unrest]]>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/reading-group-archiving-unrest

The HPU led an Itinerant Reading Group as part of Michael DiRisio's exhibition Archiving Unrest at the Worker's Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. We discussed a chapter from Karen O’Rourke’s Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, focusing on the political practice of perambulation and critical cartography.

https://wahc-museum.ca/event/reading-groups/

]]><![CDATA[Speaker Series: Walking thinking making mapping: mobile research with the HPU]]>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/speaker-series-walking-thinking-making-mapping-mobile-research-with-the-hpuThe Hamilton Perambulatory Unit invites you to a performative talk about practices of engaging with urban space, using some of the methods we have devised from our research. From Baudelaire and Benjamin to the Situationists and Fluxus, the city has long been fertile ground for creative practices. The HPU conducts public walks as creative propositions towards understanding the city and the self in relation to place. Our methodologies include stratigraphic cartography, locative media experimentation, sensory synesthesia poetry-writing, and found material sculpture-making. During this talk, HPU will give a summary of our past collaborations as well as conduct a short on-the-spot research project with the audience.

Department of Art History and Communication Studies Speaker Series
McGill University
Arts Building W-215, 853 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5]]><![CDATA[Residency: WalkingLab]]>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/residency-at-walkinglab

The HPU is in summer residency at WalkingLab, OISE (University of Toronto)!

In 2016, the HPU spent three months in residence with WalkingLab in order to further research and expand our methodologies, specifically our “Strata-Walk” technique that urge you to identify the different layers of strata that make up place as a way of provoking your attention, and can be adapted to any method of mobility. As participatory workshops, the Strata-Walks function as public pedagogy and relational art, where the emphasis is on the inter-relationships between people and environments, and the creative element does not lie in the making of an object, but in an event. The prompts can be used in groups or by a solo walker. As a method, it focuses on sharpening the mind’s attention to place, as well as the body’s.

WalkingLab is an active laboratory for research and development on walking methodologies. It aims to generate a diverse range of walking research related to civic engagement and critical public pedagogy, experiment with different media and mobile technologies, and compose an anarchive that attends to the live, temporal and performative nature of walking research. http://walkinglab.org/residency/

Read our contributions to the WalkingLab blog, as those of other residents, here!

]]><![CDATA[YULE WALK 2015]]>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/yule-walk-2015

You’ve all heard of Christmas food/clothing “drives”; well this is a Yule Walk!

The Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU) is walking in your neighbourhood on SUNDAY DECEMBER 2O AT NOON collecting donations for The Native Women’s Centre and socks hats mitts for The Good Shepherd Men's shelter and Mary's Place women's shelter.

You do the donating----we do the walking! But join us for a mid-winter walk too if you can---walk a block, 2 blocks-a mile---whatever you can----and we can walk and talk about all kinds of things!

]]><![CDATA[Transportation: Contemplate Campus on Foot]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/transportation-contemplate-campus-on-footJoin HPU Founding Member Sarah E. Truman on a sensory stroll through campus. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to different approaches to walking and contemplation including Chan Buddhist (jingxing) walking and the notion of the flâneur, and then set out on a stroll to appreciate autumn’s colours.

When: Wed., Oct. 22, 2014, 12–1:30 pm
Where: Reading Room (meeting point)
Cost: Free

This is part of Slow Down, a series of free workshops by Hart House designed to encourage you to dial down the hectic pace of everyday life and create space for mindfulness and balance. ]]><![CDATA[Itinerant Reading Group]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/itinerant-reading-groupJoin the HPU for an ongoing, go-along discussion of texts related to walking, space, place and creativity. Walking incites creativity in writing, so we think it should incite creativity in reading too!

Books we’re currently reading: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, An Attempt at Exhausting A Place in Paris by Georges Perec, Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson and The Critique Handbook by Kendall Buster and Paula Crawford.

Reading/Walking Dates:
Thursday September 18, 2014 (walking area: James Street to Bayfront Park)
Thursday September 25, 2014 (walking area: Kirkendall to Chedoke Golf Course)
Thursday October 9, 2014 (walking area: York to Cannon)
Thursday October 23, 2014 (walking area: Beasley)]]><![CDATA[Blizzardy Itinerant Reading Group: HPU doesn't fear cold!]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org/blog/blizzardy-itinerant-reading-group-hpu-doesnt-fear-coldJoin the HPU for an ongoing, go-along discussion of texts related to walking, space, place and creativity. Walking incites creativity in writing, so we think it should incite creativity in reading too!

Books we’re reading over winter 2015: Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf, Places of Learning by Ellizabeth Ellsworth, Walking and Mapping by Karen O'Rourke.

Reading/Walking Dates:
Thursday February 12, 2014 (walking area: Dundas City Centre)
Thursday February 26, 2014 (walking area: Cootes Paradise)
Thursday March 12, 2014 (walking area: Hamilton Cemetery)
Thursday March 26, 2014 (walking area: Concession Street and Mountain Brow)]]>