15 May would have been the first day of Od Arts Festival: Alone with Everybody. There would be a flurry of activity in the streets, fields, eateries and village halls around East and West Coker. People would have walked, talked, dined, danced and made things together. Though we can’t celebrate our togetherness in person at the moment, we’d love to share a few taster morsels from our programme – things you can watch, read and listen to at home.
ON CARE
THE WALKING READING GROUP
Readings for a walking group
The Walking Reading Group (TWRG) have selected short texts which consider the loneliness of digital hyper-connectivity, rural remoteness and artists’ experiences of solitude. Intended to lead to a series of intimate exchanges over a two hour walk during the festival, TWRG have offered to share their selections with you now. Please sign up via Eventbrite for FREE or email to receive a pdf of the selected texts or an audio recording read aloud by OSR Projects director, Rowan Lear. We hope that if you can, join us for a walk and talk in the Somerset landscape when the festival is reconvened.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The Walking Reading Group facilitates the exchange of knowledge in an intimate and dynamic way, by discussing texts while walking together. TWRG is run by Lydia Ashman and Ania Bas.
BIBLIOTHERAPY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE
(Mixtape Version)
BRAM THOMAS ARNOLD
Listen in to a mixtape journey through place, time and subjectivity. A wake for the geological period we may or may not be living in.
Recorded originally as part of Bram’s six part radio series Trail Mix(ED) on Resonance FM.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist who started with walking and kept going, into performance, installation, broadcasting and bibliotherapy.