WALKS 1–4 (Studio/Stage: Entangling private and public creative spaces through interdisciplinary composition - Portfolio)

Video works (2020–2021), 4 minutes (four 1-minute videos connected into a single work)Individual looping videos shared on Instagram:WALK 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQIlz5eALmR/WALK 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQI1uX1grr4/WALK 3: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJEG6xAW0N/WALK 4: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJT6Xpg7mDWALKS 1–4 is a set of short video pieces created from documentation of local walks by three members of the Kaths Kaff collective – Jon England, Katie Hanning and me (Caitlin Rowley).In late March 2020, shortly after the start of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown, Hanning proposed that we use our government-mandated one-hour walks as a prompt for creative responses. This resulted in a great mass of documentation created by the three of us, which took the form of videos, photographs, field recordings, drawings and other media, all capturing different aspects of our daily walks in Somerset, Bristol, and Gravesend in Kent. Acting on a suggestion that emerged out of the group’s discussion early in the project, I brought these responses together to create WALKS 1–4, combining documentation and input from all three artists. Every element of these short video works uses a form of documentation from the initial project. Some elements from the project were used directly, as with the four videos showing pavement, a boat, a brick wall and vegetation blurred by the walker’s motion, and a squirrel leaping from tree to tree; others were reinterpretations of documentation contributed by one of the other artists. These reinterpretations include the animated frame that reveals the underlying videos, which I created as a digital translation of a technique England was using to document some of his walks with pen and paper, or my graphic score for the synthesiser part, which I based on frames from a night-time video contributed by Hanning. The result is a set of short, interlinked videos, designed to be shared both as 1-minute looping uploads on Instagram and as a connected set on other online channels such as YouTube.WALKS 1–4 was followed by two more sets (5–8 and 9–12), which were commissioned by Electric Medway Festival in 2021 but which are not included in this portfolio.Videos © 2021 Kaths Kaff

视频作品（2020—2021年），总时长4分钟，由四段1分钟的视频拼接为单一完整作品。
在Instagram平台发布的独立循环视频如下：
WALK 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQIlz5eALmR/
WALK 2: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQI1uX1grr4/
WALK 3: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJEG6xAW0N/
WALK 4: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJT6Xpg7mD

WALKS 1–4 是由Kaths Kaff艺术集体的三名成员——乔恩·英格兰（Jon England）、凯蒂·汉宁（Katie Hanning）与本人凯特琳·罗利（Caitlin Rowley）——的本地徒步记录创作而成的短片合集。

2020年3月末，英国首次COVID-19（新冠病毒）封控措施启动不久后，汉宁提议我们以政府规定的一小时户外徒步为契机开展创作。由此三人产出了大量记录素材，涵盖视频、照片、实地录音、手绘及其他媒介，全方位记录了我们在萨默塞特、布里斯托尔与肯特郡格雷夫森德的日常徒步见闻。

受项目初期团队讨论中萌生的一个想法启发，我将三人的创作素材整合为《WALKS 1–4》，融合了三位艺术家的记录内容与创作投入。该短片合集的所有元素均源自初始项目的记录素材：部分素材被直接使用，比如四段分别记录人行道、船只、砖墙与因步行者移动产生动态模糊的植被，以及一只松鼠在树木间跳跃的视频；其余素材则由另外两位艺术家的记录内容经再创作而成，包括我将英格兰用于纸笔徒步记录的手法数字化转译后制作的、可展现底层原始视频的动画帧，以及我基于汉宁提供的夜间视频帧创作的合成器配乐图形谱。

最终呈现的是一组短小且相互关联的视频，既可以作为1分钟循环短片上传至Instagram，也可作为完整合集在YouTube等其他在线平台发布。

《WALKS 1–4》之后还有另外两组作品（5–8与9–12），这两组作品由Electric Medway Festival（梅德韦电子艺术节）于2021年委托创作，但未纳入本作品集。

视频 © 2021 Kaths Kaff