Proximity and distance – a research/performance day as part of Nikki Tomlinson’s wider project. “Towards, is exploring how to – and whether to - develop a new outdoor/indoor performance initiative (project/event/festival/other) in the area between and including Eastbourne and Newhaven”. My offer was to engage together on a walking score drawing on an urban intervention by Allan Kaprow. Kaprow’s score invites making (temporary) meaning through purposeless, solo, walking, which is played out in an urban environment. I first worked with this score when I was considering the state of wandering. I was drawn to the intense attention it takes to navigate a path through the city when there is no specific destination and the only frame for decision-making is moving in one direction for 100 steps, then changing direction. Some years later I resurrected the score in a group context on cliffs in Cornwall. I was struck by the sense of commitment to some unfathomable law that was perceptible in bodies moving, often at great distance, in relation to land and sky, and the sense of these bodies as part of a much wider collective, bound by their individual attentiveness to a fundamentally useless task.