Guy Debord outlines the psychogeographic practice of the dérive in his essay ‘Theory of the Derive’ which was first published in 1956 and reprinted in the Situationist International in 1958. The dérive, as Debord explains, is a theoretically charged stroll, usually in urban environments. Debord gives us the curious and amusing line: ‘Wandering in open [...]
“One autumn evening in 2005, a friend and I lost patience waiting for a bus and on a whim decided to walk the bus’s route. Six hours later we’d drifted across London from Battersea to Chelsea, Victoria, Vauxhall, the west end into the small hours of the morning. Surprised at how fresh and energised we [...]
The Museum of the Moment is an Mp3 audio walk through Cardiff’s Victorian and Edwardian Arcades and across the cities under – development Hayes area. Each Mp3′ track consisted of a collage of clips and recordings which bought voices from Cardiff life into converstion with each other through their juxtposition. Each track related to a [...]
Patrick Keiller’s London (1994) offers a phychogeographic tour of the capital in 1992. The film sits somewhere between documentary and fiction, employing unseen characters: Robinson, and the unamed narrator who recounts thier travels and observations of the city. The film is structured as a series of derive-like excursions that navigate their way through social history, [...]
[murmur] is a non-profit, community-based, locative oral storytelling project: [murmur] in: Toronto Kenora Montréal Sudbury Vancouver Orange San Jose São Paulo Dublin Galway Edinburgh Geelong
Walk walk walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten is a participatory live art event, with a walk at its core. The project begins with an exploration of urban routine. Starting from the routes we take to and from work and home, part time jobs and friends houses, we established a methodology for [...]
Walk walk walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten is a participatory live art event, with a walk at its core. The project begins with an exploration of urban routine. Starting from the routes we take to and from work and home, part time jobs and friends houses, we established a methodology for the [...]
Landscape and walking provide the catalyst for Walking the Land’s creative activities. Based in the Gloucestershire countryside, Walking the Land comprises three lead artists, Richard and Tom Keating and Kel Portman. Each share a passion for the landscape, using artworks to bring landscape and environmental issues to a wider public audience. As painters, sculptors, photographers, [...]
Wrights & Sites is a group of artist- researchers with a special relationship to site, city/landscape and walking. Formed in UK, 1997, Wrights & Sites are four artist-researchers (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith andCathy Turner) whose work is focused on peoples’ relationships to places, cities, landscape and walking. We employ disrupted walking strategies as tools for playful debate, collaboration, [...]