Interesting conversations this week about the potentials of walking art & other outdoor experiences as pedagogy in a covid world with colleagues who are not linked in to the arts world, so a thread on outdoor stuff in London might be useful? @AcademicChatter @EastLondonUCU 1/ 2/ first up @tamashatheatre and @agencyofconey 'We Are Shadows' currently running on brick lane (tix from rich mix, very cheap) is an audio walk/adventure touching on themes of migration, culture, displacement, gentrification & food.

Working in my studio today& unearthed these commemorative handkerchiefs from a residency @ the womens library in 2008/9 The border lists launderettes past& present in East London, the centre motif is drawn from archive collections of suffragette souvenirs& laundry instructions. The women's library collections are now held @LSELibrary & include some amazing suffragette ephemera including paper and cloth souvenir handkerchiefs.

Do you live in #Hackney E8 and have a fruit tree in your garden that you can't harvest, or can't use all the fruit from? #EastEndJam is expanding its physically distant foraging work to include home grown as well 🙂. Thread 1/ Basically we forage, prepare & preserve fruit, making jams, jellies & chutneys that are shared with the people who've worked on them, with excess distributed through local food banks. So far this summer we've made cherry & elderflower jam from Hackney marshes & London Fields 2/

For @bbcarts #CultureinQuarantine here's a thread on my collaboration with #ClaireHind #WaysToWanderTheGallery developed out of an @ahrcpress networks project, and was delivered with @Tate in 2017 #MuseumFromHome 1/5 'Ways to Wander the Gallery' built on work gathered together in the 2014 book 'Ways to Wander'; a collection of 54 suggestions, instructions, guidelines & ideas for going on a walk, written by members of the #WalkingArtistsNetwork #CultureinQuarantine #MuseumFromHome 2/5

The special edition of @theCSPA quarterly on WALKING that I have guest edited is available NOW! Featuring luscious content from @hedgesprite @BibiCalderaro @AmySharrocks & #SharynEgan #MaraaCollective #LuciaMonge @PlantonMovil you can buy a copy here: magcloud.com/browse/issue/1… @theCSPA @hedgesprite @BibiCalderaro @AmySharrocks @PlantonMovil @UEL_News @artsadm @ArtsDigitalUEL @risd . @hedgesprite's 'All in a Day's Walk' tells the story of the (near impossible) task of living for a month on food that was grown, processed & sold within a walkable distance from her home. This is a score that you can try yourself! and is a stark portrait of UK food production..

I'm about to start a rewalking of #walkwalkwalk's 2007 ' Chip Shop Tour of E8'. Can't way to see what's changed. @hilswalk will be simultaneously walking for chips in Prespes, Greece at #MadeOfWalking 1/ @hilswalk Stop one on the route #BroadwayFishBar is closed for refurbishment 😟. Worryingly the sign in the window says 'reopening April 2019'.

Found these laser etched tissues in my studio this morning, made in 2009 during a residency at the #womenslibrary. They combine laundry instructions with Victorian decorative motifs, inspired by commemorative napkins & hankies from the collection. @LSEnews @TheCassArt In case you were wondering 'handkerchiefs must be steeped separately from other articles and salt must be added to the water- one tablespoon to one quart of water. Mucous is soluble in salt solution'

1/ so far today I have withdrawn my labour by:
Not making breakfast*
Not getting the kids dressed*
Not emptying the dishwasher
Not clearing the table
Not loading the dishwasher
Not running the washing machine
*Partner has done these tasks
#westrike #womensstrike 2/ so far today I have not been able to withdraw my labour from:
Feeding my baby
Changing nappies
Taking the kids to school
#westrike #womensstrike