Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
A DIRECTION OUT THERE. READWALKING (WITH) THOREAU, 2021
A DIRECTION OUT THERE. READWALKING (WITH) THOREAU, 2021
I speak the (non-walking) words one at a time as I encounter them, one leading me to the next as it completes it. The last may sometimes leave a trail.
Henry David Thoreau’s transcendental lecture/essay, after pruning, becomes conceptual poetry with an accompanying score for reading, walking, speaking, singing, playing. A reading path leads through Thoreau’s words, keeping a trace of the original text as the visible root of Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s rewilding; this mise en abyme reveals endless potential paths. Readwalking describes a simultaneous act of reading and walking: reading as walking, of walking as reading, of reading a text about walking, step by step, putting one foot in front of the other, each word calling the next, following one’s instinct or senses, as one is going along a reading path, as Thoreau writes, always going west, sauntering, readwalking as if one’s life depended on it…
‘Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s score lifts the materiality of the text out of its ordinary fusion with the flows of meaning and rumination. Read-walking Thoreau, even in one’s own mind, has the salutary effect of an acupuncture of the spacetime of reading. Constellations of ideas virtually glow around Thoreau’s grey-scaled text, beautifully illuminated from different angles by Vicky Smith and Michael Hampton’s essays.’ —> Cécile Malaspina
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and composer. Her practice emerges between text and performance, between the page and the body.
Her scores, publications, installations, performances, and workshops propose alternative ways of engaging with interior or exterior landscapes and each other. Her music and scores are distributed by Edition Wandelweiser. Recent publications include Reading (story of) O (uniformbooks, 2015) and a double CD, a direction out there (Edition Wandelweiser, 2021). Her works are held in collections including the V&A, London, the Poetry Library at Southbank Centre, London, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre des livres d’artistes (cdla), Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche.
There is a serious and considered review of this book here, and we could not be more pleased.
Henry David Thoreau’s transcendental lecture/essay, after pruning, becomes conceptual poetry with an accompanying score for reading, walking, speaking, singing, playing. A reading path leads through Thoreau’s words, keeping a trace of the original text as the visible root of Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s rewilding; this mise en abyme reveals endless potential paths. Readwalking describes a simultaneous act of reading and walking: reading as walking, of walking as reading, of reading a text about walking, step by step, putting one foot in front of the other, each word calling the next, following one’s instinct or senses, as one is going along a reading path, as Thoreau writes, always going west, sauntering, readwalking as if one’s life depended on it…
‘Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s score lifts the materiality of the text out of its ordinary fusion with the flows of meaning and rumination. Read-walking Thoreau, even in one’s own mind, has the salutary effect of an acupuncture of the spacetime of reading. Constellations of ideas virtually glow around Thoreau’s grey-scaled text, beautifully illuminated from different angles by Vicky Smith and Michael Hampton’s essays.’ —> Cécile Malaspina
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and composer. Her practice emerges between text and performance, between the page and the body.
Her scores, publications, installations, performances, and workshops propose alternative ways of engaging with interior or exterior landscapes and each other. Her music and scores are distributed by Edition Wandelweiser. Recent publications include Reading (story of) O (uniformbooks, 2015) and a double CD, a direction out there (Edition Wandelweiser, 2021). Her works are held in collections including the V&A, London, the Poetry Library at Southbank Centre, London, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre des livres d’artistes (cdla), Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche.
There is a serious and considered review of this book here, and we could not be more pleased.
92 pages
105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-910055-85-4
£10.00
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105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-910055-85-4
£10.00
Next Book ->