I recently discovered some video art pieces I made at art school back in the 80s, in a catalogue on the web. Lux were kind enough to digitise these for me and I’ve loaded a couple on to YouTube.
On re-viewing one of these, ‘Redtown’, I realised that its mythologising of place and self was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘psychogeography’
Psychogeography in ‘Redtown’
Posted in Memory, tagged fireman jack, hove, psychogeography, redtown, zap club on July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Interlude: lightning stones
Posted in Memory, tagged alice-in-wonderland, chorley, flaneur, portslade, psychogeography, universal solvent on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Thursday’s child has far to go’, and (perhaps because I was indeed born on that day) so I have, with my nightly dreams of lostness, frequent work-related wanderings and this journey. One thing that puts me into pedestrian mode quite often is the fact that I don’t drive. Like the Passenger in the Iggy [...]
More Quixotic symmetry
Posted in Memory, tagged psychogeography, software, time, walkinghometo50 on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As well as some symmetries of place (travelling between piers, seas, and seaside towns) I’ve realised that there can be a symmetry of time to this journey. I left Brighton shortly before my 25th birthday, so if I arrive back for my 50th I will have symbolically concluded another 25 years – the second [...]