Wander, Score. with Claire Hind

a 2 part image. On the left a woman is lying down on the ground facing a wall with her arms outstretched. She is wearing a dark top and patterned trousers. The wall is made of patterned stone with a glass and metal top. City buildings are in the background. On the right a woman is lying with her face turned away in a rock pool on a beach. She is wearing a bright green dress with a fluffy white underskirt. There are rocks and cliffs in the background. — *She Walked,* 2021, Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind. Photos: Katie Wilson (l) and Amalie Iona (r)

In Spring 2022 Claire Hind and I undertook a Jedel Foundation visiting artist residency with Kansas City Art Institute, (KCAI) Missouri, based on our Ways to Wander books. Due to ongoing pandemic restrictions we created a remote residency from a base at Kestle Barton in Cornwall, connecting online each day with students in Kansas City. Students across the art school participated, including classes in Social Practice, Long Form Poetry, Film, Sculpture, Graphic Design and Data Visualisation.

We opened the project with a public lecture in KCAI’s New Perspectives series introduced by Professor Emeritus Karen McCoy, introducing our routes to walking art. We went on to lead a series of workshops with students, inviting them to follow scores from Ways to Wander, and writing scores of their own.

In Cornwall we walked everyday on the coast paths of the Lizard peninsula, following scores that students had generated, and meeting with students and faculty online each evening to see their work in progress and share images, sounds and texts from our experiments.

A woman with red hair wearing a green dress with a white fluffy under skirt draped over a red rock. A rockpool in the foreground with red, grey and white pebbles. Cliffs behind and — Claire Hind on Kennack Sands, photo Clare Qualmann, 2022

A woman wearing a colourful hat, blue clothes and a khaki back pack. tied to the backpack is a tangle of rope, string and beach debris. The beach is made of red pebbles with red and yellow patterned rocks behind. — Clare Qualmann with ‘tangle’ on Kennack Sands, photo Claire Hind, 2022

Claire made field recordings of the sounds she became drawn to, triggering words for performance text that related directly to her growing, sentient experience of wrapping her body around geological rock formations. Clare gathered found objects, made drawings and foraged wild food as material inspiration to performance making. These explorations culminated in a performance installation at CAST in Helston, titled Wander, Score. streamed live to KCAI.