{"id":902,"date":"2015-10-15T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/newpathways\/?page_id=902"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:11:40","slug":"mappenings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/newpathways\/mappenings\/","title":{"rendered":"MAPPENINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

[To\u00a0What is a Mappening? by Adam Whitehall<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MISSION<\/b><\/p>\n

By Adam Whitehall, Margaretta Jolly and Lyn Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Our creative director Adam Whitehall designed and facilitated a subversion of the traditional group walking tour of the town based on psychogeographic principles, naming it \u2018Mappenings\u2019<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At 11am on March 21st 2015<\/a><\/strong>, a group of walkers met at the agreed starting point in Lewes, East Sussex, on a bright sunny Spring Saturday morning outside a train station. For a comparative study, the group also met for a weekday night excursion on the evening of April 1st 2015<\/a><\/strong>, beginning in the saucepan aisle of Waitrose at 7pm.<\/p>\n

On one level, their mission was simple: split up into paired, or solo, wanderers and take a leisurely drift around town, re-grouping two hours later. Viewed from above, this was group dynamics as slow explosion; homage to something the town of Lewes was famous for: the firework.<\/p>\n

Walkers were given a local tourist map to mark their improvised routes and were required to adhere to one rule to encourage mindfulness to the possibility of a ‘group-mind’ activity: Every 20 minutes (DAY<\/a><\/strong>: 11.20am<\/a><\/strong>, 11.40am<\/a><\/strong>, 12.00pm<\/a><\/strong>, 12.20pm<\/a><\/strong> and finally 12.40pm<\/a><\/strong>, and NIGHT<\/a><\/strong>: 7.20pm<\/a><\/strong>, 7.40pm<\/a><\/strong>, 8.00pm<\/a><\/strong>, and 8.20pm<\/a><\/strong>), no matter where they found themselves or what they were doing, they were asked to pause upon their chosen paths and document that moment in any which way they desired: writing, photography, video, audio, or maybe each rendered in combination. These stilled points along their drifted routes were also marked up on their tourist maps.<\/p>\n

Contributors were asked to produce pieces comprised of their drifting and pauses; these in turn then formed the collective points on nine unique interactive maps: five individual maps<\/a> representing Saturday March 21st <\/a>and four <\/a>representing Wednesday April 1st<\/a>. Each map contains a pop-up box with an alphabetised listing of the walkers.<\/p>\n

March 21st<\/sup> 2015 – DAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ten\u00a0walkers contributed pieces perfect for the interactive maps<\/a><\/strong> from the day walk and the reader can easily follow each individually if they so wish:<\/p>\n

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  1. ROSS ADAMSON (Deciphering the algae bubbles on gravestones \u2013 video essay of photos, field recording and drift narration)<\/li>\n
  2. RACHEL COLE (Accidentally discovering the hidden Court \u2013 photos and thoughts)<\/li>\n
  3. ROBERT COOPER (Following the groundwater streams through Grange Gardens and beyond \u2013 poetry essay of video and\u00a0photography)<\/li>\n
  4. JANETTE FOWLER & ADAM WHITEHALL (Trespassing for flotsam and jetsam for art! \u2013 synchronised dual photography)<\/li>\n
  5. MATTHEW HOMER (Accidentally falling into old walking patterns: back to work! \u2013 video drift in photos, sounds, text)<\/li>\n
  6. MARK JOHNSON & LYDIA MARIA STORM (The day\u2019s international Mappeneers, walking Copenhagen in time with Lewes \u2013 photos and\u00a0text)<\/li>\n
  7. MARGARETTA JOLLY (A drift that compliments Margaretta\u2019s essay \u2018Mother Lewes\u2019 \u2013 photos & text)<\/li>\n
  8. JEREMY PAGE (Musings on the war memorial, coffee breaks and faraway daughters \u2013 poetical thoughts)<\/li>\n
  9. RACHEL TAVERNOR (Road Closed yet trees frame the Spring sky \u2013 photography)<\/li>\n
  10. BRUCE & PENNY WHITEHALL (Zardoz masks, road signs, classic cars, flea market poetry \u2013 poems, photos, musings)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    April 1st<\/sup> 2015 – NIGHT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Seven walkers contributed to the night walk<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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    1. ROSS ADAMSON (Video essay of photos, field recording and drift narration)<\/li>\n
    2. ROBERT COOPER (Poetry essay of video & photography)<\/li>\n
    3. JENNI CRESSWELL (Video essay of photos, field recording and drift narration)<\/li>\n
    4. JANETTE FOWLER & ADAM WHITEHALL (Improvised songs about whatever mappened to happen)<\/li>\n
    5. MATTHEW HOMER (Video drift in photos, sounds, text)<\/li>\n
    6. MARGARETTA JOLLY (Photos and thoughts)<\/li>\n
    7. JEREMY PAGE (Poetical thoughts)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      OTHER MAPPENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Several contributions were structured in such a way as to be tricky to include in the interactive map form and so were presented as submitted, mainly as photo-essays.<\/p>\n

      Tanya Shadrick<\/a><\/strong>, who finds sights that disrupt the town\u2019s ease and self-sufficiency (Lewes even has its own currency) while fly-tipping on Cockshut Lane, turns up traces of a young man\u2019s love-life in a dumped photograph. Wendy Maples and Abbie Stanton<\/a><\/strong>, in contrast, enjoy a dog-fl\u00e2neur<\/em> bringing together the reticent English, feeling at home in slowing time. Finally, there is a fantastic cut and paste collage of their April Fools drift by Nancy and Ben Carter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

      A further piece by Michael O’Brien<\/strong>, A Trilogy of Mappenings<\/a>\u00a0(the day, night and a 2nd day excursion) channeled the spirit and ironic narrative tone of the great psychogeographic ‘Robinson’\u00a0film trilogy by Patrick Keiller. Mr O wanders to the northernmost edges of the town, and gradually moves south, commenting on places and \u2018non-places\u2019, and on little known historical links such as the incarceration of \u00c9amon de Valera in Lewes prison in 1916.<\/p>\n

      Honourable mention and thanks should be extended to our further\u00a0fellow travellers and participants in the walks, including: Corinna Suricata, Trine Berry, Helen Cann, Joanne Whitehall and her daughter Izzy.<\/p>\n

      For more information on:<\/strong> What is a Mappening?<\/a> please wander\u00a0over here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      \"Mappenings<\/a><\/p>\n

      Links to\u00a011.20am March 21st 2015<\/a>;\u00a011.40am March 21st 2015<\/a>;\u00a012.00pm March 21st 2015<\/a>\u00a0;\u00a012.20pm March 21st 2015<\/a>;\u00a012.40pm March 21st 2015<\/a>;\u00a07.20pm April 1st 2015<\/a>;\u00a07.40pm April 1st 2015<\/a>\u00a0;\u00a08.00pm April 1st 2015<\/a>;\u00a08.20pm April 1st 2015<\/a>;\u00a0MAP NOTES by Wendy Maples and Abbie Stanton<\/a>;\u00a0THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD\u00a0by Tanya Shadrick<\/a>;\u00a0NIGHT MAP by Nancy & Ben Carter<\/a>;\u00a0A TRILOGY OF MAPPENINGS by Michael O’Brien<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

      And to the\u00a0Sitemappening<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

      \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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