Theory:
‘Detournement, as in to detour, to hijack, to lead astray, to
appropriate … Detournement sifts through the material remnants of past and present
culture for materials whose untimeliness can be utilized against bourgeois
culture …’
(Mackenzie Wark)
So, Detournement: multimedia responses to the Derivee process of losing oneself in place and time through the
discovery of multiple meanings of place; Psychogeography
- imaginative relationships to space and place, looking for the liminal.
Potlatch: the collective production and sharing of creative responses.
Proposal:
A collective
rewriting of the official heritage of Stroud …
Collective
walking, recording, inventing and writing -
Reworking
psychogeography’s urban outlook,
By wandering
through both town and five valleys:
“ Imaginative reworking … otherworldly
sense of spirit of place,
the unexpected insights and juxtapositions
created by aimless drifting, the new ways of experiencing familiar
surroundings…”
In and around a mill town in the Cotswolds
…
Practice:
Possible Walks:
1. Any
seemingly mediocre, nondescript suburban red brick walk; for example, down Rodborough
Hill and into Stroud:
2. A walk along the Slad Brook to its edgelands in Stroud:
3. A Captain Swing walk from the Hog in Horsley:
4. A walk from the workhouse to Stroud cemetery and to the Ale House:
5. A walk from the Woolpack to Bull’s Cross and on to Sheepscombe:
6. A walk from Purgatory to Paradise:
7. A walk across Rodborough Fields to Rodborough Common
8. A walk from the Ram at Woodchester to Selsley Common:
9. A Randwick walk
10. A Painswick walk
11. A WW1 walk:
12. A Reverend Awdry Rodborough walk:
13. A
Home guard walk:
Posting
and link to follow in the future
14. A
Uley Walk:
15. A Slavery Walk:
16. A Brimpsfield walk
Posting
and link to follow in the future
17. A Nocturnal walk:
18. A Bike ride:
Future Proposal:
A collective walk and
re-imagining of Stroud’s heritage boards
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