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contemporary urban academic? meets-Science’ project. So those
And then there was this colloquium forces were starting to come
about the sea … and that reminded together, and then I thought, okay,
me of how unbelievably rich the well, how about a water-pilgrimage
metaphor of water is … That was in relation to all of that … so I put
playing in the background too. And that to Dave, and in two-week’s
… something very pragmatic, but time, the thing was organised! …
also a major force: I had to write an The pilgrimage was … a u-shape …
annual report for the SARChI Chair intentionally. So, you start on a
in December, and … the Chair had very, very high note … opening out
not yet come into its own … in … but then you descend … into the
engagement. Being a thoroughly ‘gates of hell’ and you have to pass
academic philosopher, engagement through multiple ‘gates of hell’
was something I really didn’t know before you emerge again at the end
too much about … I met Belinda, ‘in heaven’ … One of the things that
fortuitously, in a yoga class … and struck me … is that jarring contrast
said ‘help!’ … Belinda put me in in all three of the pilgrimages
contact with Mark Duker … she between those moments of utter
thought that this project could form beauty, and then the trash in every
the third leg of [her] broader ‘Art- single crack and crevice, the
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