In my work I focus on the relationship between a landscape, its inhabitants and the way people (and animals) navigate, penetrate and occupy space.
The Last Hole Is A Short Par 4 is a locative media project about the members of the Cupar Golf Club and the way they interact with the local landscape.
Cupar Golf Course was founded in 1855 and is allegedly one of the oldest 9 hole golf courses in the world. The project has two parts. The first is a series of prints capturing the physical manifestation of playing the course. Volunteers from among the club members will play the course with a GPS logging device in their pocket. With the data recordings from the devices, I will make prints showing their journey in time and location. The prints will form an exhibition.
The second part of the investigation will consist of interviews with local members of the golf club and their stories about their fascination for golf, the way they experience landscape, and the way they approach each hole they play on the course. An audio journey from hole to hole will be created from those interviews, which can be downloaded as a podcast or picked up at the clubhouse and listened to. I will also display extracts from the transcripted interviews.
Personal notes, sketches, photographs, portraits, the GPS prints, and full transcripts of the interviews will also be available to view.
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THE GOLF TAVERN, 11 SOUTH ROAD, CUPAR
SPACES AND PLACES: THE PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPE IN GOLF
A TALK BY PAUL MILLER, THE GOLF TAVERN, 11 SOUTH ROAD, CUPAR. SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER, 4PM
The importance of place in the sports experience matters more in golf than in any other sport. Within this presentation, Paul Miller, lecturer in Golf management and Greenkeeping at Elmwood College in Cupar will explore the sense of place in golf, illustrating with examples both familiar and exotic. Questions and discussion will be welcomed. The talk is part of Holger Mohaupt's locative media project at the Golf Tavern for the 2009 Cupar Arts Festival