There Are No Firm Rules - Platform Residency - The Walk - Red

A 3 Day walk

Stoke-on-Trent to Sheffield

26th to 28th July, 2016

56 miles ( plus 14 country miles (approx.)) 

 

Cutting Through

 

 

 

There Are No Firm Rules - Platform Residency - The Walk - Blue

The Walk
Blue

There Are No Firm Rules - Platform Residency - The Walk - Found

A 3 Day walk

Stoke-on-Trent to Sheffield

Day 2

27th July, 2016

Longnor to Blackwell

8.3 miles ( 14 country miles (approx.))

Found Food

A Walk

In response to Andrew Bracey and Steve Dutton for their blog Midpointness

There Are No Firm Rules - Platform Residency - The Walk - Planning

Planning

A Walk 

Journey: Stoke-on-Trent to Sheffield
Land Type: Urban-Rural-Urban
Walk Type: A to B

Distance - by Road: 46.8 miles
Duration (approx): 15 hours 18 minutes (constant)
Accommodation: none
Distance - as the crow flies: 38.9 miles
Duration (approx): 56 hours (with frequent stops)
Accommodation: built shelter, tent, public house (flexible)

A Slow Process Day

Location: a terrace house, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Instructors: Sally Pointer & Gareth Riseborough
Processes: milling, twining, cording, needlemaking, weaving, netting, tooling, piping.
Materials: Spelt, Sandstone Saddle Quern, Basalt Rubber, Sourdough, Hemp, Flax, Deer Tendon, Deer Antler, Flintstone, Leather, Pigeon Bone

Stripped 
Back
Slowed 
Down
Basic
Processes

milling

twining - flora

twining - fauna

needling

weaving

netting

tooling

piping

There Are No Firm Rules - pre residency exhibition

Ahead of the residency, starting at SITE Gallery in Sheffield on 26th July, we installed a presentation of the findings from the R&D phase of the project, acting as an impetus for visitors to engage ahead of residency activity. The installation runs for 2 weeks.




Materials

• Barrel Drums, blue x 2
• Parachute
• Large Format Prints, blue-back billboard paper, digital/c-type x 2
• Dreamcatcher, red/yellow para-cord, Camping Pans, screw-in eyes
• Woodburning stove, tin cans, instructions
• 500 -piece jigsaw, nature scene
• Plinths x 4
• Wren's Nest, found
• Vice, Walnut
• Firelighting Kits x 2 ( manmade / natural)
• Tree Section, found
• Aluminium Drum, found
• Tool Bucket, assorted tools, archaic
• How To Sew, Ladybird book
• Small prints x 5
• Assorted collected natural ephemera - stones, cones, nuts, berries, leaves