Walking Through Uncertainty is a performative walking practice in Highgate Wood that explores attention, listening, and bodily attunement to changing environment conditions. Instead of wandering out of curiosity, the walk is shaped by active responsiveness to wind, shifting light, ground texture and live site sound, treating environmental cues, especially sound, as a guide for movement in an attempt to attunement, being a deep listening practice. Using a mounting device that free the hands, cameras remain attached to the body so they operate as an extension of the performer rather than a framing device. The work is presented as a three-view video installation on 8” Sony mini broadcast CRT monitors (4:3) with its own external speaker, keeping viewers close to the image and attentive to sound. Uncertainty is treated as a working condition that emerges through repeated negotiation between body and woodland environment.

This is practice-led research developed through repeated in-site walks, and camera-mount tests. The walk follows a set of rules by walking for 30 minutes with no fixed route, letting environmental cues, including sound, wind, light, ground texture, and interruptions, trigger changes in direction, keeping the cameras attached to body, repeating across different conditions so uncertainty can accumulate over time. Duration and repetition are used to let attunement build and to reveal patterns across walks. Three different positions of cameras are kept attached to the performer at arm, leg, and back level, being not to create a clearer perspective, but to detach the performer from composing a view, so the hand and gaze are no longer the point of perspective, and to keep attention on listening and adjustment. Each channel begins as a 30-minute walk and is edited down to 3 minutes. The shorter cut supports viewing across the three viewpoints and suits the CRT loop, making pattern of adjustment easier to notice.