[Synapse elist] mowing the lawn

[Rebecca Cunningham]

re mapping
(ah, i have been stalking this list since the beginning and have found very many things extremely interesting, but as my practice is predominantly low rent, have never felt competent in many of the technological streams to comment...but on mapping I have a question...)
 
ever since being trained as a classical clarinettist I became interested in muscle memory. when one was performing, often you wouldn't remember what you would be doing, but your body did. you body could perform while your mind was somewhere else. Although I no longer practice publically in this capacity, the interest remains.
 
i have since done performance work looking at the body and muscle memory; mapping the body in "Hidden: a history of personal violence" 
in this work, i cut off my clothes and wrote on my body particular memories that are stored or connected to that place on/in me. 
 
I was wondering if anyone on this list might be linked to particular studies in mapping the body with particular reference to muscle memory?
 
2c
 
all the best
bec
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> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:41:18 +0930> From: vickisowry at internode.on.net> To: elist at synapse.net.au> Subject: Re: [Synapse elist] mowing the lawn> > Simon, > > I recall the first 'Charles and Diana' visit to NZ with wee willie William..> The gardeners at Government House in Wellington spent some considerable> months beforehand mowing the main lawns into a pattern of (and now I can't> remember: a kiwi? profiles of the happy couple?)...> > >"Simeon Lockhart Nelson" <simeon at simeon-nelson.com> wrote:> > Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite things to do. When I was a> > child I mowed my family's large informal garden and would mow> > patterns > > and> >> The maps they submit make medieval cartography seem highly> >> empirically sophisticated by comparison! I find this strange in the> >> age of Google Earth when any of us can explore the most remote corner> >> of the earth with panoptic ease.> > It's not at all strange to me. But then I'm someone who spends most of her> time on Google Earth 'zoomed in'... ie. using it to see detail.> > Which makes the following much less surprising. Surely mapping done whilst> walking, with all the body memory that implies, stays with us for longer, at> a deeper level?> > >> the Inuit> >> have extraordinary mental maps. They can remember many miles of> >> complex coastline and carve a piece of wood to represent this with> >> almost the same level of accuracy as GPS mapping. They can do this by> >> by traveling on foot or sledge through the landscape once.> > Jeremy,> > >>> From: "jeremy wood" <jwood.net at gmail.com>> >>> From the recording and mapping of my daily GPS tracks since 2002 I have> >>> certainly changed the way I treat my journeys, it has even influenced> >>> the way I mow the lawn.> > Do you worry about becoming paranoid, knowing your every movement is being> recorded? > > > Vicki> > > _______________________________________________> elist mailing list> elist at synapse.net.au> http://lists.synapse.net.au/mailman/listinfo/elist
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