ART/INTERVENTIONS
The following art/interventions have been accepted by TRIP. Full details of when/where/how these will happen to follow (click here to download the provisional programme or here):
Frank Kickball Jesus presents 3-sided psychogeographical football:Kickball Jesus Arrives from the USA to share with us his divine message on the future of Psychogeography pitting the various International factions of Psychogeographers against one another in a tournament of American “Kickball” where they will either work out their differences on the kickball field and achieve a new enlightened soildarity or descend into a complete chaotic factured mess from which they will never return! Psychogeography will never be the same again!
Remains of a Future City by Parking Non Stop: Studio installation using processed field recordings, from Welsh art collective.
A Walk on the Wild Side: A “tanka” style poem/artwork in a gallery, and a walk, from David Haley of MIRIAD, MMU.
Manchester Mental Mapping Workshop: A foyer type installation which invites visitors to make their own mental map of the city - from Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit.
Poster project (awaiting title) Situationist inspired posters for display around the city.From John Rooney and Pam Shaw (Salford Uni)
Blackpool-Manchester: Installation from Nogo Voyages, an artistic travel agency based in France.
Finding Utopia In Manchester: Installation/performance/ fanzine from John McGurk, based in New York
A-Void: A walk/ performance from Graham Jeffery and David Pinder (London based)
Pansy Project: Walk and apartment-based installation - Paul Harfleet and Chris Buckley record locations of homophobia around the city.
Deep Topography: Nick Papadimitriuou curates a gallery-based garden shed which he uses as a storage vat of regional memory.
TEA: Installation from Manchester-based group who’ve done a lot of psychogeographical-inspired work over the past few years.
Identikit Manchester: Mark Rainey (who works at Urbis) leads a walk themed around corporate chain stores.
New Orleans in Manchester: US artist Brian Rosa curates photographs and interviews from the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Bury That Dog: A walk around haunted Manchester with Peter Portland.
Travelling Light: People use GPS-enabled mobile phones to track their journeys through the city - these are then projected in live installation. From Jen Southern, Jen Hamilton, Chris St Amand - all based in Canada.
The Abandoned Buildings Project: Photo-installtion from Manchester-based Jane Samuels.
Excerpts from the Stone Library: Poet Alyson Hallett reads from her pschogeographically-inspired latest collection, published by Peterloo Poets.
Manchester, Mythogeography and Mobile Machinoeki: Performer/writer Phil Smith presents his version of a Japanese “Walking station”, offering supplies, gifts, maps, rituals, etc., to the public.
