WALK: Lone Hawthorn Vision Hack: work-in-progress demo and radical noticing walkshop led by Outshift’s Rachel Henson
Monday 4th May, 14:30– 18.30, Holne Moor
Experience a strange new world that blends reality with fiction and help create a new artwork for Dartmoor called “Portals” with Rachel Henson. Rachel is an artist working with new interactive technologies and illusions to change the way we see our natural environment.
Join her on a radical noticing walk to find a lone Dartmoor hawthorn on Holne Moor that grows at the top of a watercourse once streamed for tin, a lookout post for cuckoos, bark smoothed by ponies, followed by a demonstration of her unique combination of art and technology at the tree.
“You put me in a magical place somewhere between reality, your fiction and my imagination. I loved the fact that I had to ‘walk’ to move and ‘do’ in order to discover the story.” Walk participant
“Portals” is a unique binocular vision hack, designed as a slow-looking alternative to augmented reality, that will reveal the tree’s human and more-than-human dalliances through small portals set into the landscape. These display video in real-world dimensions filmed from the exact vantage of the viewer. With both eyes open, one looking through the portal, the other open on the surroundings, the live and filmed worlds merge in a way that shifts and changes, a function of our two-eyed vision.
Rachel will continue filming the tree’s interactions with animals, birds, and weather over this year with a final installation of the work to be shown in May 2027.
Rachel will be kindly supported by artist and Dartmoor guide Kay Pearson.
Find out more about the project at: OUTSHIFT
TICKETS: Price: £9
KEY INFORMATION BELOW
Images: courtesy Rachel Hensen
Meeting Place: Car park Holne Moor Gate, 50.515034, -3.838280
What3words: jumpy.margin.workroom
Time: 14:30. Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time. The walk will start promptly at 14:30.
Length: 4 hours.
Terrain: Moderate walking – some uphill climbs and uneven terrain.
Suitable for people with reasonable fitness and mobility levels who are over the age of 10 years old.
Dogs are not permitted on this walk.
Note – we’re highly unlikely to have phone reception at this location.