The writing ‘Court Circular SE11’ is realised in form and tone as a letter-form dialogue drawn from a more extensive email correspondence between RCA colleagues Corinne Noble and Simon King (who walk and work together collaboratively as N&K). The written exchange took place over five weeks between April and May 2020 following an invitation to create a place-responsive public walk in relation to Lambeth County Court, a decommissioned civil court building in Cleaver Square, Kennington south London. This period of restricted social gatherings, an edict of the first UK government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown, required Noble and King to resolve fundamental questions including how to make socially engaged work in isolation from others and whether working remotely and walking singly can be an effective substitute for walking together.

In respect of its place responsiveness, the text is structured performatively as an inquiry around a legal glossary – ‘INVITATION’, ‘DISPOSITION’, ‘GROUNDS’, ‘PURSUANCE’, ‘EVIDENCE’, ‘DISCOVERY’, ‘OBLIGATION’, and ‘ADJOURNMENT’ As part of ‘On Holding’ the post-lockdown group show in June 2021, the writing here originally took the form of an installation piece that complemented the themes within the final walk.