Walking represents a core methodology for exploring and attending to landscape. My current PhD research focuses on walking with and of the landscape as part of wider multispecies multiplicities. Influenced by psychogeography and contemporary artistic walking and counter-cartographic practices, Deep Canine Topography seeks to investigate how walking with a canine companion alters, enhances, reveals new ways of seeing, hearing, smelling, sensing the spaces we traverse together, folding and unfolding, knowing and un-knowing through our shared multi-species geographies, drawing on Erin Manning’s and Brian Massumi’s work on movement, sensing and affect. Also informed by Donna Haraway’s writings on multiplicities entanglements, Jacob von Uexkull’s phenomenology, how different species sense, read, and construct our lifeworld’s, and Ron Broglio’s Surface Encounters, how we move beyond representations of the more-than-human and engage in artistic collaborations, Deep Canine Topography explores the act of walking as co-authored, multispecies world making through which a human-canine hybrid counter-cartography is revealed/created.
