TRIP Programme

(Provisional programme – subject to change)

TRIP 2008

Thursday June 19th: Day 1

Event

Time Details

Registration (Coffee and Tea)

9-11am

Papers (Parallel

sessions)

11-12.30 Deleuze

Chris L. Smith Other territories: Other animals A.A.S and Webster Gotts (co-authored by Stuart Tait, Ana Benloch, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts) Ludogeographic project Anna Powell Psychogeography and Deleuze in Hollywood History Darien Jane Rozentals and Robert Knifton Ruinous recollections: Artistic drifts across post-industrial Manchester John Rogers The way of the topographical rambler: A protopsychogeographical manifesto Mark Rainey The Urban Spectacle Diversions

Davide Towards metaphysical geography Caroline Vains Dissonant shopping: Pyschogeography, drift and consumption Andrew Stuck Romantic Narratives of urban places

Lunch 12.30-2pm

Art/Interventions From 2pm (exact times tbc)

Identikit Manchester: Mark Rainey (who works at Urbis) leads a walk themed around corporate chain stores. 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.

A Walk on the Wild Side: An urban nature walk, from David Haley of MIRIAD, MMU.

Reception From 6pm URBIS – with Disco Operating System performing live

Keynote Address 7pm Alastair Bonnett: Psychogeography and the Politics of Nostalgia


Friday June 20th: Day 2

Event

Time Details

Papers (Parallel

sessions)

9-10.30am Apocalypse

Simone Hancox Neosituationism: The implications of regeneration for 21st Century Practitioners Alex Bridger Situationism, psychogeography and the study of place: ‘Radicalising’ psychological research methods Morag Rose Squats, Social Centres and Spectacles: Building Alternative Spaces in Post Bomb Manchester Folklore Carl Lavery Walking blues: Lost in the zone John Adams, Matthew Hyde and Peter Portland M60 Motorway drift and Trafford Centre

Coffee and Tea 10.30-11

Papers (Parallel

sessions)

11-12.30 Psychogeography Traditions

Steve Hanson Mind the gap: Psychogeography as an expanded tradition Gavin McDonald From drift to trace? Problems in mapping locative arts on to the work of the Situationist International Christina Ray No title yet Poetry Rachel Ravey Ecocriticism Faith Lawrence Let’s get lost: The poetry of urban spaces Alyson Hallett The Stone Library Technology

Peter Dickens and James Ormrod Exploring cosmopolitanism Christian Nold No title yet Ryan Griffis For an art against the cartography of everyday life

Lunch 12.30-2pm

Art/Interventions From 2pm

(exact times

tbc)

Bury That Dog: A walk around haunted Manchester with Peter Portland.

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. Pansy Project: Walk and apartment-based installation - Paul Harfleet records locations where he has experienced homophobia around the

city. Salford University based. Excerpts from the Stone Library: Poet Alyson Hallett reads from her pschogeographically-inspired latest collection, published by

Peterloo Poets. Identikit Manchester: Mark Rainey leads a seminar to discuss issues from the Identikit walk.


Saturday June 21st: Day 3

Event

Time Details

Papers (Parallel

sessions)

9-10.30am Art

Dr Nicolas Whybrow www: Walking with Wentworth: London to Munster 07 Simon Piasecki No title yet Johanne Ejbye-Ernst Turning site specific Identity David Wilkinson Psychogeography, urban space and the commodification of gay identity Maureen Ward The Pansy Project Jason Groves Turf Wars: A natural history of vacant lots

Coffee and Tea 10.30-11

Papers (Parallel

sessions)

11-12.30 Cities

Wael Salah Fahmi Flaneur’s transit narratives Tomoko Ichitani Responding to Hiroshima: Atomic Bomb Literature Peter Connolly Vertical and horizontal: Consummate Partners in the Slideways journey through York’s Urban Space Walk

David Haley Manchester on sea: Art as foresight John Davies Walking the M62 Dav Devalle Munich Memorial Lecture, Manchester Martyrs, Death and Place, Death and Identity

Lunch 12.30- 1.30pm

Art/Interventions 1.30pm-3pm (exact times

tbc)

Manchester Mental Mapping Workshop: A foyer type installation which invites visitors to make their own mental map of the city - from Nottingham Psychogeographical Unit.

Frank Kickball Jesus presents 3-sided psychogeographical football: US v UK psychogeographers in a match played under the Mancunian way.

A Walk on the Wild Side: An urban nature walk, from David Haley of MIRIAD, MMU.

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.

Panel/Seminar

Session

3pm – 4.30pm David Pinder and Graham Jeffery A-Void (more details to follow).

Final Event From 6pm TBC


EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

For the duration of the event – exact locations tbc

Remains of a Future City by Parking Non Stop: Studio installation using processed field recordings, from Welsh art collective.

Blackpool-Manchester: Installation from Nogo Voyages, an artistic travel agency based in France.

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.

New Orleans in Manchester: US artist Brian Rosa curates photographs and interviews from the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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.

Finding Utopia In Manchester: Installation/performance/ fanzine from John McGurk, based in New York

Poster project (awaiting title) Situationist inspired posters for display around the city.From John Rooney and Pam Shaw (Salford Uni)

Documents

TRIP Programme