Psychogeography
Psychogeography can be loosely defined as playful and inventive strategies used for exploring places...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the surrounding landscape.
I'm looking for people who want to collaborate on psychogeographic mapping. for this project, flip a coin 25 times to determine your path. for every heads you flipped you will take a right after walking one block. for every tails you flipped you will take a left after walking one block. find a starting point and proceed to walk and map your new route which has been determined by your coin flipping. write down the names of the streets you turn on, the places you pass, and the things you observe as you walk. what do you smell, hear, and see that you might have missed if you had not taken this random route. post your mappings here and share your exploration with other members of create culture.
I'm looking for people who want to collaborate on psychogeographic mapping. for this project, flip a coin 25 times to determine your path. for every heads you flipped you will take a right after walking one block. for every tails you flipped you will take a left after walking one block. find a starting point and proceed to walk and map your new route which has been determined by your coin flipping. write down the names of the streets you turn on, the places you pass, and the things you observe as you walk. what do you smell, hear, and see that you might have missed if you had not taken this random route. post your mappings here and share your exploration with other members of create culture.
Tags: Psychogeography, artist, artists, culture
Replies to This Post
-
Permalink Reply by Amy on -
New York City - took the B train to the grand street station in chinatown and started at forsyth & grand.....
heads-right on forsyth watched some handball in the park-must be senior skipday all the highschool students are out enjoying the nice weather, no learning today...
tails-left on hester walked around the track in front of pace high school-nice track....
tails-left on elridge,
heads-right on grand
tails-left on allen,
tails-left on broome overwhelming urine smell,
tails-left eldridge stopped on the dumpling house for a nice meal of shrimp dumplings and honeydew bubble tea,
heads-right on grand,
heads-right on forsyth,
tails-left on broome watched some tai chi in the park and watched a bunch of people watch people doing tai chi in the park (tai chi groupies)....
tails-left on chryste,
heads-right on grand walked by a market with fish so fresh it was still flopping around taking their last gasps of air,
tails-left on bowery,
heads-right on hester,
tails-left on elizabeth,
tails-left on canal saw the aftermath of a yellow cab car crash with espiga de oro bakery truck,
tails-left on bowery,
heads-right on canal walked by the pawnbroker hotdog stand where you could get a hot dog for 92 cents, that's right 92, you can pawn something then pickup the hotdog special,
tails-left on chrystie past a place that makes neon signs....will have to get one made one of these days,
heads-right on hester,
tails-left on eldridge,
tails-left on grand,
heads-right on forsyth,
heads-right on broome past zheng yin buddhist temple where incense was being burned in honor or ancestors deceased,
tails-left on eldridge blissfully ate a chocolate banana puff from panade next to fuan gong temple of u.s.a. until i was showered with dirty water from above being used to clean the fire escape......loved my psychogeography date....
-
Permalink Reply by Linda Beck on -
heads-right on canal walked by the pawnbroker hotdog stand where you could get a hot dog for 92 cents, that's right 92, you can pawn something then pickup the hotdog special
A discovery worth the trip!
-
Permalink Reply by John Rouse on -
i know the beck's would appreciate this. i believe jeremy is made of hot dogs. something for the young buck to look forward to (unless he chooses the vegetarian path of course, in which case i'm sure he will enjoy replacing hot dogs in his diet with coal miner biscuits).
-
Permalink Reply by Linda Beck on
-
Who wouldn't replace processed meat with coal miner biscuits?? I mean really!
-
Permalink Reply by John Rouse on
-
Yes, I went on an excursion three weeks ago that I will be posting shortly.
-
Permalink Reply by Nico Daswani on -
let's do it. it's even more fun in the cold. maybe we can set a date and other culturalist@s can join in too...?
-
Permalink Reply by John Rouse on
-
Definitely, we should video tape this one......
-
Permalink Reply by John Rouse on
-
Friends were in town a couple weeks back and we took them on a death march forced psychogeography tour through Chinatown in the pouring rain....They were good sports and you know probably the first visitors to NYC that took a tour that finished at Mechanics Alley under the Manhattan Bridge. The same flipping of the coin method was used to determine which way we should go. Tails meant we were taking a left and heads meant we were taking a right. After taking the B train to Grand Street this is what happened....
Tails- left on Lafayette passed a cornucopia of hand bags for sale (Coco Chanel, Gucci, whatever you wanted low, low price)
Tails-left on walker past a bonzai stand
Heads-right on Centre street past the Siamese Connection
Tails-left on white street though the police parking lot towards whiskey tavern and the bails bonds men...turns out my wife's cousin's girlfriend's brothers own whiskey tavern. we hang out and watch police bring a couple people to the jail. then take off again into the pouring rain.
Heads-right through a park and past a soccer field. the rain is pounding us and psychogeography has taken me this way before. we will be hitting up a new area for the next entry.
Tails-overdue left past True Light Lutheran Church and Dr. Toothy's dentist office. we stop for pics for the out of towners.
Heads-right on mott st through Chatham Square and past the statue of Lin Ze Xu-he was pioneer in the fight against opium. i never ever would have seen or noticed this statue if not for psychogeography. in fact i missed it on two previous pscyho trips that took me through the square. more pics with our visitors...who wants to go to the empire state building anyways.
Heads-right on catherine street past hanging peking duck
Tails-left on henry past sweet spring and a "be stupid" sign (don't get it)
Heads-right-on market street everyone is very wet and a little miserable
Tails-another left
Tails-we find ourselves on mechanics alley under the Manhattan bridge. can't think of any other place i'd rather be.
-
Permalink Reply by Artislyfe on -
Hey John
I will try your experiment next week. It will be streets from West New York, NJ
-
Permalink Reply by John Rouse on
-
Love it man. Can't wait to read about what you discover.
-
Permalink Reply by Alejandra Nettel on -
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
I have many photos so I will be posting them little by little and the text will follow later. Enjoy! - Attachments:
-
-
China Town_Amsterdam_001.JPG, 100 KB -
China Town_Amsterdam_002.JPG, 134 KB
-
China Town_Amsterdam_003.JPG, 142 KB
-
Stay In Touch
Follow Create Culture
Get Started
© 2013 Created by Create Culture.
<