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Windsor Armouries

Please join IN/TERMINUS and the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit for a participatory Strata-Walk in downtown Windsor, as part of the Triennial of Contemporary Art
Meet at the Art Gallery of Windsor.

The metaphor that downtowns have a “heart” or “soul” lends emotional weight to the dense historical and cultural layers that define city life. Our collaboration combines stratigraphic cartography with the military practice of reconnaissance, enquiring into the relationship between the historic military presence in Windsor’s urban centre and current locations of its “heart and soul.” Windsor’s Armouries represent a late 19th/early 20th century civic structure that traditionally occupied the “heart” of the city, representing a form of fortification and security that has lost relevance. Starting from the Armouries (soon the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts), our participatory “strata walks” map ways in which traditional forms of security and surveillance have shifted, disappeared, or morphed into new contexts.

This project was written up in Canadian Art! 

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McGill AHCS Speaker Series

Speaker Series – Hamilton Perambulatory Unit: “Walking thinking making mapping: mobile research with the HPU”

The Hamilton Perambulatory Unit invites you to a performative talk about practices of engaging with urban space, using some of the methods we have devised from our research. From Baudelaire and Benjamin to the Situationists and Fluxus, the city has long been fertile ground for creative practices. The HPU conducts public walks as creative propositions towards understanding the city and the self in relation to place. Our methodologies include stratigraphic cartography, locative media experimentation, sensory synesthesia poetry-writing, and found material sculpture-making. During this talk, HPU will give a summary of our past collaborations as well as conduct a short on-the-spot research project with the audience.

Department of Art History and Communication Studies Speaker Series
McGill University
Arts Building W-215, 853 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5

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Residency: WalkingLab

The HPU is in summer residency at WalkingLab, OISE (University of Toronto)!

In 2016, the HPU spent three months in residence with WalkingLab in order to further research and expand our methodologies, specifically our “Strata-Walk” technique that urge you to identify the different layers of strata that make up place as a way of provoking your attention, and can be adapted to any method of mobility. As participatory workshops, the Strata-Walks function as public pedagogy and relational art, where the emphasis is on the inter-relationships between people and environments, and the creative element does not lie in the making of an object, but in an event. The prompts can be used in groups or by a solo walker. As a method, it focuses on sharpening the mind’s attention to place, as well as the body’s. 

WalkingLab is an active laboratory for research and development on walking methodologies. It aims to generate a diverse range of walking research related to civic engagement and critical public pedagogy, experiment with different media and mobile technologies, and compose an anarchive that attends to the live, temporal and performative nature of walking research. http://walkinglab.org/residency/

Read our contributions to the WalkingLab blog, as those of other residents, here!