Walking in Air in Springfield Park & Walthamstow Marshes

2026, Fieldwork

Individual field work / reflective documentation / collective recollection in on and around Walthamstow Marches. 10/01/2026

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with James Davies, Will Montgomery, Artur Vidal and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

the bandstand in Springfield Park

We met locally at Artur’s home and walked together to the bandstand in Springfield Park on a very cold Saturday. After some discussion over lunch in a nearby café, we went our separate ways, some to the Marshes, others back to the bandstand.

Our prompts, chosen for optional orientation in our walks, were the following:

the most simple way is to walk a different path
(the second way is to give it another name)
James Davies, it is like toys but also like video taped in a mall (Pamenar Press, 2022)

Walking, eating, touching, listening, waiting, sounding… like an ecotone.
Artur Vidal, score extract, 2025

We met for a recollection later that afternoon back at Artur’s, and, after we had generated traces in response to our walking, again in early February.

Online recollection (04/02/2026)

Some traces of our fieldwork are available here.

Artur Vidal  website

James Davies website