Power walk is a sprawling collaborative project by Eleanor Davis and Bram Arnold encompassing music, written work, film, installation, performance and walking. Through a series of simultaneous explorations undertaken whilst walking El and Bram will explore this most social ecology that is the demand for power. Begun as a 3 day walk the project has become an exploration of the multifarious connotations of power that are experienced by individuals. This blog is their diary of the project.

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Definition.

Power /pow’er or poer/ n the skill, physical ability, opportunity or authority to do something; strength ore energy; force or effectiveness; an individual faculty or skill; capacity for producing an effect; the moving force of anything; control or influence exercised over others; right to command, authority; political control; rule; governing office; permission to act; a paper giving authority to act; potentiality; a person or group wielding authority or strong influence; that in which such authority or influence resides; a state influential in international affairs; (a state having) military strength of a specified kind; a great deal(inf); an armed force (archaic); (often in pl) a spiritual agent; a being of the sixth order of the celestial hierarchy (medieval theology); a great deal or great many (now dialect or inf); a mark of subjection (Bible, 1 Corinthians 11.10; New English Bible ‘a sign of authority’); the sound value of a letter; the rate at which a system absorbs energy from, or passes energy into, another system esp the rate of doing mechanical work, measured in watts or other unit of work done per unit of time (mech, phys etc); any of the forms of energy, or any of these as the driving force of a machine etc; mechanical or electrical energy as distinct from manual effort. * adj concerned with power; (of eg a tool) worked, or assisted in working, by mechanical or electrical power; motor driven; involving a high degree of physical strength and skill (esp sport, as in power tennis) * vt (often with up) to equip with mechanical or electrical power. * vi and vt (inf) to move or propel with great force, energy or speed.

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

very, very sunny sunset.


its a pipeline, its a pylon's shadow, its an organic field, its called trespassing, its nearly sunset and isn't it lovely. power. walk. power. walk. power. walk. power. walk. power?

Here she is...


So yes, after a very brief period of timidity we got quite used to putting our wee stencil here there and everywhere around the route of our power walk for tomorrow evening! Initially we had thought we would just do one every 100 metres or so, but erm, then we did two side by side alarmingly near my house and the rest is history.

Trespassing...

So recently we've been indulging our inner child's and playing around on building sites. We've also taken to the arts of graffiti too! Breaking rules is an addictive business and we're starting to find ourselves doing it all over the place. Spent the first sunny evening in a long time driving around looking for interesting bits of pipe, found some in deep trenches, some surrounded by workmen and still others piled up in fields with organic signs in. It didn't seem as easy to do in bright sunlight as it was in the rain, one felt very exposed in the middle of a field that doesn't belong to you surrounded by signs that proclaim the presence of dogs patrolling 24 hours a day and various danger signs. Which all made taking out the violins and ukeleles' a lot more fun, and scary at the same time. I get very nervous, El seems to rather enjoy it, she particularly enjoyed the spray paint.... photos soon enough.