Walking Into Art: Challenging Traditional Artistic Ideas

Artist, Richard Long was thrown out of art school for the experimental nature of his work, and yet, in 1989, he won the Turner Prize? !  Long uses walking in the landscape as the medium of time and distance in his work.    The photographs of his maps, sculptures and text, act as records of his travels. He's walked as far as Japan, Alaska, Nepal and Iceland in the pursuit of his creative practice. I only went as far as Hanley: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery to view his art, but it was well worth the visit.  The exhibition is in The Artist Room until 2nd March.

Creative Writing & Dance relationships

Lecturer in dance, Rachel Rimmer, and I, have been collaborating for some time now.  There are a number of similar lines of enquiry within our practices.  We meet in the dance studio at MMU Cheshire where we work, and explore creative writing/dance relationships.  As a result, Rachel has written an article and I have produced a word/text score in response to her dance improvisation.  The research has been accepted by choreograph.net online journal; the 'raw thinking' page is the space where we share our writing.  For anyone interested, the links are:

http://choreograph.net/articles/lead-article-the-speaking-body-in-space-documenting-the-dancing-moment

http://choreograph.ne/raw/to-create-the-path-of-dance-improvisation-and-wordtext-score