Ambulation
Bridgette Ashton has been commissioned to produce a new walking map for the city of Plymouth for the exhibition 'Ambulation' at Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, Devon.
The map (titled 'Pedestrian Plymouth - a Guide to Aimless Wandering") encourages the participant to go wandering and meandering around the city, highlighting a large number of incidental (but nonetheless interesting) elements which may be unimportant from a historical, architectural or tourist point of view but when presented together, make up a network that will prompt a desire to look into the significance of the particular place or thing.
Ambulation brings together specially commissioned and past works by artists and architects who use walking as an artistic practice. These artists all use the idea to explore walking as a practice, from looking at the historical contexts of the city, to the symbolic potentials that are held within an everyday object, and the idea that walking should be an aimless affair.
Participating artists include: ad:HOC, Bridgette Ashton, Tim Brennan, Simon Persighetti and Tony Whitehead, Phil Smith and Polly Macpherson, Architecture Centre Devon and Cornwall.
Ambulation has been produced by Mark A James as part of the PVAC associate scheme. Mark is a young independent curator based in the South West of England.
Ambulation, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, Devon:
14 August – 10 October 2010