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Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

Updated: Mar 24

Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a London based academic, artist, composer and improviser

interested in the materiality and musicality of language. She is Reader in Fine Art and

Relational Practices and director of bookRoom at UCA Farnham.


Her practice and research evolve across multiple interconnected work zones – conceptual

writing, performance, new musical composition, artist-publishing, curating (here.here concert

series, Cosy Nook). Her music and scores are distributed by Wandelweiser editions. Latest releases include Walking in Air, Performance Research ‘On Air’, with Will Montgomery (Sept 2022) - The Way We Blend Podcast (July 2022) - Walking in Air in Thornton Heath, Le centre des livres d’artistes (2021) - Photobooks &, Matt Johnston, edited by E. Waeckerlé (Onomatopee, 2021) - A Direction Out There: Readwalking (with) Thoreau (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, Edition Wandelweiser, 2021).


https://ewaeckerle.com/

https://ewaeckerle.bandcamp.com/

https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/emmanuelle-waeckerle/

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Walking in Air in Ditchling


lodge hill



Saturday 28th May 2022, 11.30 am.


Lambing is a critical time in the farming year beware ponds deep water (opening and closing gate) caution

deep water

walking in air uphill to lodge hill CAUTION DEEP WATER lambing season

(slightly out of breath)

walking in air

on unfamiliar ground (out of breath) breathless

one step at a time

gentle breeze soft grassy ground

two small planes high up in the sky cloudy with

speckles of blue two small planes chasing each other

I am walking in air

between earth and sky my breath the air my breath of air joining

one to the other

following a small path grassy path at the top of lodge hill on a small plateau a small path

made step by step by those walking it

breath by breath by those breathing it groundless ground

boundless ground invisible silent endless

boundless groundless air I am walking in walking through walking with

arresting view of the downs green grounded downs against cloudy sky speckles of blue moving slowly

gentle breeze brushing against the skin of my arms my face

I am walking in air step by step breath by breath thinking about the walking and the air I am walking in

speaking about walking on dry grass and the air

I am walking in step follows breath follows

step follows breath follows step

follows the grassy path circling around the barrow at the top of lodge hill a circular path

endless path

no beginning no end

like the air I am walking in breathing in breathing at breathing out breath follows step

grounded ground for my feet groundless boundless invisible ground for my thoughts for my lungs

.

freshly cut grass crisp

under the sole of my feet as I am walking in air on the barrow at the top of lodge hill big open sky

gentle breeze

I am walking in air murmuring as it brushes my ears


I am walking in air

tracing a path

step by step breath by breath

a continuous path

crossing itself in between two little mounds of dry grass

that I have positioned at about twenty steps

normal walking steps from each other as I am walking in air circling step by step the first little mound and crossing to the other side

in diagonal so that I can circle the other mount

from an opposite direction and crossing the line joining them again

so that I can circle the other mount of grass from left to right

until my steps take me across the line the straight line that joins them

so that I am now circling the other mount from left to right until I am

crossing again and again and again the straight line that joins the two mounds

of grass so that I can circle each one in turn before crossing the line that

joins them directly thus creating a path without beginning nor end

walking in air on an endless path

that I created between two small mounds of dry grass

by repeatedly crossing the line the straight line that joins them doing so

after circling each one

my feet following this continuous path between two grassy points breath following

steps eyes following steps

scanning the trees the bushes the blackbird flying past the small plane high in the sky more trees bigger trees

the south downs in the distance more trees