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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY (noun): "A whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."

  • Artist, Robert Ladislas Derr uses die rolls and cameras to map his walk through cities worldwide

    Chance, psychogeographical walk performances through cities with the direction determined by viewers’ die rolls. The die indicates that Derr move forward, backward, right, left, spin, and stand in place. He accepts thirty die rolls and then proceeds on the walk wearing four video cameras. When spin or stand in place are the command, he completes each for one minute. The directional commands take him to the next intersection. After walking with the video cameras, Derr returns to each intersection encountered and photographs the four views, creating a photographic cartography as well. The final videos are exhibited in an immersive four-channel video installation.

    Tagged: art robert ladislas derr Psychogeography dérive chance play urban exploration space place installation video performance interactivity

    Posted on March 5, 2012 with 3 notes

  • Meanderings may seem fairly leisurely and not the least bit political, they propose the radical idea that ways of being in physical space (particularly in the cities) are political acts. The confluence of the détourne and the dérive manages to territorialize the visual. The spectacle is a territory. The city is a spectacle. Both tactics, dérive and détourne, take trespassing as their essential character. They must cross into the territory of others, whether these are the advertisements of Nike or the orderly storefronts of Paris, to produce new meanings.

    Nato Thompson (“The Interventionists”)

    Tagged: quote nato thompson the interventionists Psychogeography dérive détournement space place the spectacle

    Posted on February 25, 2012 with 2 notes

  • passing-strangers:

GRANTHAMAll I know of this place is, well, nothing. I’ve passed through here a few times. All I have is an impression of the place based on what can be seen from this train, and that’s only very vague of course.Will I ever know more of this place? Will this place ever hold any significance for me? Who knows …

    passing-strangers:

    GRANTHAM
    All I know of this place is, well, nothing. I’ve passed through here a few times. All I have is an impression of the place based on what can be seen from this train, and that’s only very vague of course.
    Will I ever know more of this place? Will this place ever hold any significance for me? Who knows …

    Tagged: space place Psychogeography documentation

    Posted on January 29, 2012 via ANYTHING GOES WHERE NO-ONE KNOWS YOUR NAME with 7 notes

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