A few months ago I came back to Sydney after almost 20 years away. To get my bearings, I instinctively started to read and walk a lot, and I was soon contemplating the relationship between these two different ways of acquiring knowledge. I wondered,

This very small and somewhat whimsical thought snowballed and became linked to all kinds of questions about solitude and conversation, about movement and stillness, about cities and urban planning, about nomadic cultures, migration, written and oral knowledge, and power. I have been translating and interpreting for years, and I was already full of questions about language and how it moves through us, how it is fixed and transmitted and acts upon us and the world.

So, bringing it back to a more manageable scale, I am going to "take texts for a walk", talk to people, do experiments, take notes, and see what happens.

I will resist the metaphor of reading landscapes, and ideas about walking as writing, and simply stick to reading or listening to authored texts while walking.
some basic questions with which to start the residency:

* How do you walk and read?
* What happens when you do?
* Have other people thought about this?
* What should I read? Are some texts more "walkable"?
* Does listening while walking work the same way?
* Where should I walk?
* How can I test my hypotheses?

Am I a walker or a reader and how can these two modes of being be reconciled?