WALKING TOGETHER APART - ANNA WALKER, JO MILNE AND SARAH BILD

How can we share both the presence and absence walking across three landscapes in different parts of the world?

Walking Together/Apart is an inquiry—a performative gesture, a method of thinking, a mode of discovery. A central question within our shared practice is its dissemination and documentation. Meeting regularly and irregurlalry online each of us brings a distinct focus—an individual intention that feeds into our individual research and this shared exploration. Through daily walking, we cultivate a sense of place and connection, an embodied experience of moving through the world. Though our walks differ in purpose and rhythm, in how we mark time and distance, we are all still moving. 

1. Anna (Buckinghamshire) is drawn to the way we walk in different directions—how we navigate terrain and embody it. What are our points of departure, our arrivals? How do our landscapes shape us, and how do we shape them? What traces do we leave beh
2. Sarah (Montreal, Canada) seeks to uncover the relationship between walking and thinking—the movement of thought, the fluidity of ideas as they shift between past and present. How does walking create space for new thoughts to emerge?
3. Jo (Hostafrancs, Catalunya) walks in time—an exploration of duration. Walking her grief, her loss.
   

Anna Walker, Collage, 2025

Sarah Bild, Drawing, 2025

Jo Milne ,Drawing 2025

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ARE Journal is a selection of essays, workshop notes, and collective writings. It emerged from many conversations, initially with Lucia Farinati, and thereafter between   Davina Kirkpatrick, Jo Milne, and Anna Walker. Yet, it is not only these dialogues, and the submissions from participating artists/researchers that shaped it. We also want to acknowledge the role of technology. Since its inception, technology has been an integral part of ARE's research. Zoom meetings, video recordings, and digital transmissions have mediated our interactions. Technology has not only shaped how we collaborate but also how we think and create work, how we communicate, and how we archive our work. ARE's journal is an evolving trace, resisting closure, remaining open. It extends an invitation to ongoing dialogue, to movement and making, to research and thought. Rather than a fixed archive, it forms an alternative set of relational experiences. The knowledge it holds is not static but networked, collaborative, and always in process.

A copy of the journal can be purchased via the contact form, or at Foyles Book Store.

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Negotiating Belonging; Photographs, text, scultpures, video and sound.

September 2023 - December 2025 (ongoing)

For the past couple of years, I have been consciously walking the same pathway across fields, ponds, and copses. I have amassed hundreds of photographs, videos and sound recordings, as well as written texts: thoughts, stories and ecological research. The practice of walking the same path repeatedly creates a space where I become the ecosystem I am observing, integrating its rhythms and changes. Water defines where I walk, as ponds expand, and streams become brooks.

Negotiating Belonging, is a converstaion with water, with the land that it swamps, and the animals, birds, insects, trees, et al. that interact with the changing weather patterns. It is about my relationship with the place as it is about the place itself.

12th October 2023, 19.12

23rd October 2023, 17.30pm