Vade mecum project 2006
Vade mecum (Walking Perth) Project 9 October to 17 December
Vade Mecum was a studio project at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. It was an open invitation for people interested in walking and locative media to meet and put their ideas and inclinations into practice. The aim was to develop a series of ten walks over the ten weeks of the residency.
Day |
Date |
Time |
Walk |
Saturday | 28 October | 2 pm | First meeting and short walk: A demonstration of OziExplorer and OziPhotoTool GPS/GIS software. This system allows you to plot spatially the location of photos on a digital map |
Sunday | 12 November | 4 pm | A walk for the sky. A sound art walk. Please bring a camera |
Sunday | 19 November | 4 pm | From A to Z Finding an alphabet for Perth. Please bring a camera |
Sunday | 26 November | 4 pm | Catchment. A walk as the Swan-Avon |
Sunday | 3 December | 4 pm | Overheard. A short sound art walk about conversations, shortcuts and roadworks. |
Wednesday | 6 December | 6 pm | Approaching the bat world. A sound art walk |
Thursday to Sunday | 7 – 17 December | 11 am to 6 pm | Open studio at PICA |
Saturday | 9 December | 4 pm | City Spine |
Sunday | 10 December | 9pm | Bat walk using an sonic bat detector. This walk starts at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Carpark, Kings Park |
Saturday | 16 December | 2 pm | “It’s All a Mistake” — A Victorian melodrama in the Queens Gardens, Perth |
Sunday | 17 December | 4 pm | Pilgrimage by Gregory Pryor |
(see images here)