(Dis)enchanted Walking - Publications and Exhibition: walking and media arts a developing approach

Two public walking arts projects, Honouring Esther and Sweet Waters, developing a critical walking arts and media practice bringing past injustices into present consciousness generating contemporary social justice resonances.The live work offers an iteration of walking-with (Sundberg 2014) as a non-confrontational approach attending to obscured and reluctant heritage (Tomory 1997).<br><br>This item documents developing the walking/social media process. A documentary video record of the installation element of an exhibition showing work from <i>Honouring Esther</i> and <i>Sweet Waters</i> Publications exploring earl.y and continuing development of the creative practice as research process: reporting on a walking and social media workshop at the site of the 2012 Olympic Games in East London for the Living Maps Network, and most a recent publication following participation in a partnership programme with Huron College, Ontario exploring the theme of reluctant heritage and hidden history walking the spaces and silences of slave-ownership.<br><br>Citations for the included articles:<br><b>White, R (2016) 'Social media trails, mapping and mashing memories at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.' <i>Livingmaps Review</i>, 1 (1). ISSN 2398-0338<br></b><br><b>Reid-Maroney, N, Bell, A, Brooks, N, Otele, O and White, R (2019) 'From 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' to “Countering Colston”: slavery and memory in a transatlantic undergraduate research project.' <i>International Public History</i>, 2 (1). 020190006. ISSN 2567-1111</b><br>