We, The Group, listen to The Walker, who caries a phone into Groningen for a walk of about half an hour. The Walker becomes a mobile radio station transmitting sound to only one device: a phone that is left behind on the table in the workshop space… on speaker… This device performs both walker and city through spitting out a fragile monologue.The Walker and the city are present through sound, through the small, passive mobile phone laying on the table. Welcom to Lines Inscribed, a workshop on wandering and listening.
![160211Phone Workshop Lines Inscribed](https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/assets/uploads/2016/02/160211Phone-680x510.jpg)
![160209Listening The group is listening, via phone, to the person walking outside in the Workshop Lines Inscribed](https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/assets/uploads/2016/02/160209Listening.jpg)
We continue listening around the phone, like gathering around a fireplace… I suppose we all imagine the city that we listen in on. Some descriptions and sentences are warm and funny. Move us…
![160209Drawing Visual notes during Workshop Lines Inscribed](https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/assets/uploads/2016/02/160209Drawing.jpg)
Some of us make notes of what we hear…. what we imagine.
![160211Instructions Listening to the wanderer outside during Workshop Lines Inscribed](https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/assets/uploads/2016/02/160211Instructions.jpg)
![160209Arriving Workshop Lines Inscribed](https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/assets/uploads/2016/02/160209Arriving.jpg)
We experiment with giving scarce instructions to The Walker. We all take a turn being on a walk. But we take a photo of only one of us, returning.
This participating performance was carried out during three days on a row as part of a project-week at Minerva Academy Groningen, NL.
Thanks to: Ingrid, Aniek, Liona, Savan, Eva, Anneloes, Wietse, Wilco, Kees, Ilse, Calluna, Maud, Laura, Gheorghe, Petra, Ieva, Radu, Theus.