Walking the wateryscape: Exploring the liminal. (1st December 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Keating, Richard; Portman, Kel; Robertson, Iain
• Is Part Of: Journal of arts and communities. Volume 4:Number 1/2(2012)
• Page Start: 10
• Page End: 31
• Publication Date: 2012-12-01
• Subjects: Community arts projects -- Periodicals; Art and society -- Periodicals; Artists and community -- Periodicals; 306.4705
• DOI: 10.1386/jaac.4.1-2.10_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1936

Abstract

At the heart of this article is a piece of participatory research around art walking practice. Presented as a pair on interleaved trialogues, the aim is to capture the experience of participation and the array of interactions, debates and perspectives uncovered whilst walking the wateryscape and subsequently. Undertaken as a piece of performative and transversal writing, the aim here is to open up, but refuse to resolve, questions of ways of representing the wet, of emotional and communal resilience and of the position of an art walking practice in representing marginalized and watery, human and non-human voices. In resisting closure and in foregrounding the 'always in the making' nature of walking practice (growing knowledge by following a path), the article faces the unresolved future of a people yet to come. The assertion is that walking the liminal is both an unsettling and unsettled practice that is only emphasized when the walk is performed in the wateryscape.