Psychogeography

May News Briefs (City of West Hollywood, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016

(Source. City of West Hollywood, CA). Your Voice Matters! Register to Vote by May 23! The Presidential Primary is June 7! ... to 8 p.m ... to 4 p.m ... How does sprawl sound? Scholar/writer Karen Tongson and writer/performer Raquel Gutierrez explore the ways identities impact psychogeographies, and built environments are repurposed and transformed by LGBTQ people of color through music, performance, and art on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 7.30 p.m....

Test Card Live : 6 tickets

Edit Skiddle 28 Apr 2016

Texture in Manchester. Friday 29th April 2016. 7.00pm til 11.00pm. Minimum Age. 18. The aim of Test Card is to create a Community to explore the development of new software, technologies and techniques in the area of AV performance. Event Info. Venue.   Buy tickets securely ... Accepted ... 6 ... 6 ... Using psychogeography as a subject matter for the project, Sean explores space around the city by filming textural and architectural points of interest....

Bad vibes in Broadstairs and the dark side of Deal

Edit The Guardian 26 Apr 2016

David Seabrook’s work exploring sinister connections in Kent could be the start of something obsessive…. @msrachelcooke ... How to describe this uncommonly strange book? Published in 2002, it’s about Kent. I guess you’d call it psychogeography (emphasis on the word “psycho”), though this doesn’t begin to capture its intense interest, its uncanny spookiness, the way it ensnares you, turning your stomach, messing with your head ... Twitter ... ....

Book review: Guilty Thing: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey By Frances Wilson

Edit Scotsman 12 Apr 2016

Frances Wilson holds up a magic mirror to the infuriatingly brilliant author of The Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater, writes Stuart Kelly. Guilty Thing. A Life Of Thomas De Quincey By Frances Wilson . Bloomsbury, £20 ... With The Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater and its sequel Suspiria De Profundis he created not just addiction memoir but psychogeography, influencing Poe, Baudelaire, Stevenson, Aragon, Borges and Burroughs ... ....

Michael Buble, Andra Day, Ledisi and Jussie Smollett To Headline Kennedy Center Spring Gala, June 5, 2016 (John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016

(Source. John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) 5f9ac4b7-ea4b-4358-89bb-42be2d8291f7.pdf. Press Release. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. April 12, 2016 ... A Tribute to Marvin Gaye" ... Ein ... Contemporary Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin, whose multi-paned, dance-inspired glass art sculpture, Psychogeographies 61, is currently on display in the Kennedy Center's Hall of States, has been commissioned to design and produce the physical award....

Art Seen: March 23

Edit Otago Daily Times 23 Mar 2016

‘‘Provocations'', Nigel Brown (Milford Galleries). Provocations. A single word which sums up not just Nigel Brown's latest exhibition at Milford Galleries, but most of the artist's career ...  . ‘‘New Works'', John Toomer (The Artist's Room) ... Here, however, is where any similarity ends ... ... The works become memory traces, a psychogeography of the land, somehow imbued with the nature of the place where they lay until found ... ... ....

Why the Sea of Malcolm has lost its sparkle

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Mar 2016

I once had afternoon tea with Paul Keating, á deux on the verandah of Kirribilli House. Over crustless cucumber sandwiches, the PM outlined the art of political landscaping, as mentored by Jack Lang. Warming to his subject, Keating detailed the technics ... Perry's Print for a Politician (2005) extends the idea ... Advertisement. So how about a contemporary Australian psychogeography? ... ... ... ....

Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns review – Bob Dylan and the magic of Woodstock

Edit The Guardian 21 Feb 2016

How did a leafy bolthole north of New York become so central to rock lore?. In 1964, Bob Dylan wrote many of the songs on Bringing It All Back Home in a spartan “white room” he’d been loaned above the Café Espresso in Woodstock ... He writes early on in Small Town Talk that he believes in “a psychogeography that may be little more than romanticism but that enshrines something good about the people who have lived here” ... ....

The K Ohle: a comedy podcast to get lost in

Edit The Guardian 20 Feb 2016

Hosted by Kurt Braunohler and with some of America’s best comics making guest appearances, this multi-format podcast is bizarre, confusing and funny. Kurt Braunohler has been kidnapping people for three years now ... But kidnapping comedians is not Braunohler’s only interest ... The idea for this facet of the show came from Braunohler’s days running around the streets of New York City in the early 2000s as part of the Psychogeography Project....

How do you teach psychogeography?

Edit New Statesman 03 Feb 2016

The idea is that the students undertake their own version of a dérive – the aimless drift through the city that is the raison d’être of seriously flippant flâneurs – and document it in any way they please. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. The academic requirement for the psychogeography module that I teach at Brunel University London is in two parts ... I tell them ... Getty ....

In this week's magazine | Should Labour split?

Edit New Statesman 27 Jan 2016

A first look at this week's issue. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. 29 January - 4 February issue. Should Labour Split?. Cover story. Should Labour split?. Thirty-five years on from the Limehouse Declaration, we ask politicians past and present whether Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents should stay or go ... Neil Kinnock ... **** ... ... [. ... Will Self’s psychogeography students run wild in London....

Literary travel: around the world in 10 must-read books

Edit The Guardian 12 Jan 2016

Ann Morgan spent a year reading a book from every country in the world – 196 in total. Here she picks 10 favourites that vividly evoke the regions they describe ... In 2012, I embarked on an eccentric project ... Sometimes I opted for national favourites ... Here are 10 of my favourites ... Psychogeography has a significant role to play in this lively collection of short stories, in which colonial history haunts the landscape of present-day Grenada ... ....

Art seen: December 17

Edit Otago Daily Times 16 Dec 2015

‘‘Photosynthesis'', Becky Cameron (Mint Gallery). A period spent tramping in the New Zealand bush provided the inspiration for an exhibition by Becky Cameron. The work is predominantly painted, although there are mixed media elements to some pieces ...   ... Jae Hoon Lee's exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘‘Stranger in Strange Land'', is a psychogeography. a psychology of journeys, and of the outsider looking in ... ... ....