Drifting
Highlights
Ghost Walker
Ghost Walker: An Impossible Walk Through Mexico City's History explores a vanished street using historic maps and Google overlays. Inspired by dérive and Collective Actions techniques, the project traces 150 years of urban change, absence, and memory through a participatory artistic walk.
Walking 9-5 Series
Danica Phelps’ Walking 9–5 turns the eight-hour workday into a walking measure. She walks eight hours daily, documenting routes and daily expenses through drawings. Each work records money spent/earned, and sold pieces are replaced by traced copies with sale details.
Drift
Drift is a site-specific GPS-based sound installation exploring wandering, disorientation, and the limits of GPS. Visitors traverse a shifting 2 km² space of sand, sea, and interactive sounds, where footsteps, spoken word, and tides create a playful, unpredictable experience of place.
Drifting – voices from the hidden history of the Thames
Cultural historian Toby Butler created a float out of driftwood and flotsam, then spent weeks following the float along the river, guided by the current. Wherever the float collided with the bank, he looked for someone to interview about their life and their relationship with the Thames.
Walking pieces
Percursos-experiência: propostas para rever a cidade
The audio-paper discusses the 2019 performative project "Three routes and a detour towards the same end," developed during the "Dramaturgies of the Everyday" research at the University of Porto. The project consists of four guided walks through Porto’s Bonfim district, using distinct approaches to explore urban fictionality, narrative time, and subjective experience within everyday routes.
Articles elsewhere
First First Sunday of 2022
Hello dear loiterers I promised more details about the First First Sunday of 2022 didn’t I? The truth is apart from the starting point I don’t know where we will go or what we will discover because that is the joy and strength of the derive. We wande...
Textually Active: Beating The Bounds
Driftingspace led a walk that responded to artists’ work in the four venues displaying the Walk On exhibition in Plymouth. This was the first ambulatory event for Textually Active as we wandered parts of the city plan, playing on artistic ideas of walking arts practice. It included all, none, or some of the following: Establishing desire lines Making the bounds Pointing […]
Tour de France – Holme Moss
The Tour de France got me thinking about the idea of professional cyclists trying to get from a to b as quickly as possibly in order to be the fastest cyclist. It’s not really a ‘psychogeographical’ endeavour but there are numerous ways that it could be…both for the cyclists and the spectators… In line with […]
Sally Hall for Driftingspace: Karst Short Residency
driftingspace will be undertaking a short residency at Karst in April which will culminate in a Textually Active event at the end of the residency. During the residency we will be generating individual enquiries and explorations of the space/site as ...
