This is not a manifesto.
Groundwork Residency
Tracing the Pathway at Milton Keynes Arts Center.
May 2015
Beatrice Jarvis. In collaboration with Dr Bob Jarvis
This is an exploration my current strands of research around MK, exploring the city as site of memory and archive.
For more information about this project please see:
miltonkeynesartscentre.org/groundwork/
This is an exploration of sites of MK in the personal geography of my father, Dr Jarvis.
A full interview can be heard here soundcloud.com/beatrice-jarvis/bob-jarvis-talks-to-beatrice-jarvis-about-mk
” Into the silence, which was also at times a roar, of my thoughts and questions forever returning to myself to search there for an explanation for my life and its purpose, into this concentrated tiny hub of dense silent noise.
The field that you are standing before appears to have the same proportions as your own life.”
I asked the city to dance with me on a tuesday afternoon.
How can I walk there
In this intensive eight day residency working with memory, cultural history, movement mapping, writing, exploring and finding ways to understand place through oral history, collected narrative and embodied urban mapping.
The Duet of the Body in the City.
( are we dancing yet)
Collaborative and unbuilt studies towards unknown utopian geographies of Milton Keynes.
I would like to thank you Ashleigh Griffith, Cara Davies and Aaron James and Groundwork: Tracing the Pathway Project. Thanks also to Deirdre and Mike at Fulwell Court, and all at MK Arts Centre for all the support.
Urban re:passages 