A Silent Walk 2024 (26 Nov 2023 10:00 - 11:30)
multi screen moving image
10:21 min.
with a performance by Angeline Morrison in the Peace Garden, Plymouth Hoe.
commissioned by Radical Ecology and Plymouth Culture
produced by Cine Sisters SW
screened 19th October 2024 at Karst Gallery, Plymouth
for the event After the Riots
A Silent Walk is a 6-screen experimental moving image work by Antonina Szram, produced by CineSisters SW and commissioned by Radical Ecology and Plymouth Culture.
The film draws on the artist’s experiences and feelings leading up to the performance of A Silent Walk on 26th November 2023 10:00 - 11:30, which followed a route designed by members of the Open City Night School and ended at the Peace Garden on Plymouth Hoe, where the weekend’s Open City's Black Atlantic proceedings were drawn to a close.
The methods used refer to practices by Dr Sana Murrani (Plymouth University) and Pauline Oliveros Center of Deep Listening, channeled through workshops which took place in the run up to the silent walk performance.
There is a focus on movement and stillness, on direction and time distortion, and on the alchemy of how images and sound emerge whilst sensing with the subject matter.
Radical Ecology and members of Open City Night School lead a silent walk from the Mayflower Steps on Plymouth Barbican to the Peace Garden on Plymouth Hoe, as a performance of non-violent and decolonial civic intention.
This public performance was open for all to join and was the culmination of Open City Night School, a participatory space held by Radical Ecology at KARST gallery throughout the duration of the Against Apartheid exhibition in 2023. Plymothians were invited to consider methodologies including alternative mapping and deep listening as tactics for deconstructing standard civic narratives and forging new collectivities.
How might we walk together in spite of difference? How might we acknowledge the diversity of histories that come together in every moment of public life and work collectively towards a just and sustainable planetary future?
A Silent Walk was preceded by a deep listening meditation conducted by Ximena Alarcon from the Center for Deep Listening and concluded with a performance by Angeline Morrison in the Peace Garden, Plymouth Hoe.
A Silent Walk was part of the Black Atlantic weekend within Open City - a season of decolonial art and public programming organised by Radical Ecology through autumn 2023 with partners across South-West England and in the context of the exhibition Against Apartheid at KARST.