Mudlark Walks: Flotsam Talismans is an immersive performance, interactive workshop, and ritual for renewal along the foreshore of the river Thames at low tide. Join live artist and amateur mudlark Sebastian H-W on a site-specific participatory audio tour to make an amulet, charm or talisman for luck, courage and protection, from the flotsam and jetsam washed ashore, as we think about personal, local and environmental tides, shifts and changes within and around us.
Audiences are invited to join Sebastian as fellow mudlarks, to walk, find and discover found objects, materials and tools washed up along the exposed beaches of the Thames foreshore at low tide. Through audio instructions, Sebastian invites the tour group to work alone and together to make an amulet, charm or talisman for luck, courage, and protection to keep, return or give away, to the river, the artist, or a stranger.
Exploring the unusual, untold and hidden histories and imagined futures of the river Thames, we’ll walk through the rise and fall of the Mudlarks, through to present day problematics of plastic pollution and climate change, and beyond into sci-fi visions of London yet to come. Mudlark Walks: Flotsam Talismans seeks to uncover how we think and feel the embodied changes around shifts and tides, both local and global, personal and political, big and small, that affect us as collectives and individuals.
This is a work-in-progress performance, with a view to be developed in 2019/20. Feedback, comment, and suggestions are most welcomed; please ask for a feedback form, email the artist (contact[at]sebatsianhw.info) or stick around after the performance to have a light informal discussion with the artist in person.
Follow the process towards making the performance via social media by searching #MudlarkWalks #FlotsamTalismans on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Google.
Mudlark Walks: Flotsam Talismans is kindly supported by Totally Thames Festival 2018, Totally Thames Trust, Seasons for Change 2018, DCA S.T.R.E.A.M and Soundart Radio Totnes.
Drop-in Talisman Workshops
Sunday 9th September 2018
12pm to 6pm
(at a Secret Location along the River Dart foreshore)
If you're not based in or able to get to London in early September, then why not take a trip down to the South-West and join me in the beautiful valleys of Dartington, south Devon where I'll be presenting a special one-off drop-in interactive workshop inspired by the performance as part of Dartington College of Arts Reunion S.T.R.E.A.M - A Series of Transdisciplinary Rituals and Experiments in Art and Music.
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A DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS ALUMNI REUNION:
"a Series of Transdisciplinary Rituals & Experiments in Art & Music"
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th September 2018
Participate, attend and tune-in for a three-day festival of concourse and discourse celebrating the human-scaled, contemporary arts education of Dartington College of Arts since 1961.
For more information about the programme visit: www.soundartradio.org.uk/stream
Please note: once the early bird quota is gone prices may increase. First come first serve.
Accommodation overview:
S.T.R.E.A.M. aims to make the festival as accessible as possible to all participants, so we offer a wide variety of pricing options. The prices shown reflect charges once subsidies, possible through the support of the Dartington Hall Trust, have been applied to the various accommodation areas.
You can book family-friendly camping with Camp Dartington. https://www.dartington.org/visit/camp/
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