Pat Perry recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt that asks participants to snap images of the mundane and quirky. Source: Play ‘Liminal Bingo,’ Pat Perry’s Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal

I had the pleasure of presenting at WALKING – Thinking in Motion, “A transdisciplinary symposium on walking as an artistic practice, spatial experience, and epistemic method in the spirit of Lucius Burckhardt”, by the Swiss Institute for Land and Environmental Art.  Being based in Brazil, I couldn’t justify the time or cost to hop across …

“Unravelling” – an experimental walk using drawings to guide walkers of Bang Rak, Bangkok (TH). A treasure hunt and choose your own adventure story experience. 2 walks, 2 unconventional maps and 2 starting points in Bang Rak. Non-digital mapping devices were given to participants to encourage a slowing down to “uncover” the area. “Unravelling” encouraged the walker to wind down by not using mobile devices, …

Dear loiterers Its First Sunday this Sunday and so time for us to wander together once again. The LRM will be gathering on Sunday June 1st at 2pm outside The Peoples History Museum, corner of Left Bank and Bridge Street M3 3ER.  We will go for a comm...

Dear Loiterers  Its First Sunday, this Sunday – and blimey, its September already! We will meet for a wander at 2pm this Sunday 1st September outside Whitworth Art Gallery. It’s somewhat ridiculous but we have never actually started there before – o...

‘Situationists’ believe the physical spaces around us, and how we interact with them, has a significant impact on how we feel. Source: The art of ‘getting lost’: how re-discovering your city can be an antidote to capitalism

As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My eighth interview in […]

Dear friends, lovers and loiterers It’s First Sunday, this Sunday, and so time for another wonderful wander together… except not quite. Occasionally we do indulge in a little time slippage, and a few folk have been asking for an evening derive or a...

Olle Helin [Malmö, Sweden] “Colour charts” (2020-2022) found pigments on aquarelle paper “The Colour charts is an ongoing series of paintings, and a product of a fairly simple work method: I go out on the streets with a watercolor pad, a paint brush and some water. The paper is small enough to be held with […]

The empty plinth re:Spindle On the 18th December 2021 InspiralLondon returned to the centre of the Trail, its beginning, curating […]

Dear friends and fellow loiterers Thanks so much to everyone who took part in last month’s wander, whether you were with us on the streets or online it felt very special. Its First Sunday again this Sunday and so we shall be gathering again for a deri...

Art historian Lori Waxman’s Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus, is an important book about three avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century in which walking played a central role. Part I, “Surrealism’s Ambulatory Dreams,” begins, though, with the Dadaists, on a rainy afternoon in April 1921, … Continue reading Lori Waxman, Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus →

A report of the 2nd KISS Microfest, a dérive and performance event organized by the Kunming International Situationist Society. Source: KISS II Microfest: Psychogeography in Kunming – WenLan

First Sunday This Sunday and we will be starting 2pm 2nd February in All Saints Park, Oxford Road, because I realise with some surprise we have never actually started there before. Our wanders will be guided using an undated version of an old favourite derive prompt. As ever all are welcome and its free to come and play with us. The walk will be at a pace, and direction, decided by participants and will probably head off in different directions.... It will last around 2 hours, please be punctual because we don't know where we will go and so you may not find us. I'll be near the stone circle in the middle of the park. If you have any questions or comments or need more information please don't hesitate to get in touch by commenting on the facebook page, emailing mlrose@thelrm.org or tweeting @thelrm

Anti-dérive, Copenhagen, DenmarkThe dérive, or drift, is a kind of urban walk in which the walker aimlessly wanders the city, following no map, visiting off-limits spaces, getting to know the hidden, unseen, and neglected parts of the city.*  With only one day in Copenhagen my walk was the exact opposite.  I followed a tourist map's self-guided walking tour though the most scenic and well-known parts of the old centre of town. The dotted line on the map took me past canal [...]

Hi everyone Aprils derive is today, 11th April, meeting 6pm at the Fairfield St entrance to Piccadilly Station. Apologies for the late notice, as explained I cant always access this site. To keep up to date please check @thelrm or facebook the loitere...

First Sunday this Sunday and so time for a wander.... I've had a few requests for one of our occasional weeknight loiters as a some folk struggle with Sundays. There's also been several suggestions to explore places we haven't been to before and so the two combine to create March's event. We will be venturing into the Arndale Centre chasm although as ever we will not be shopping (and depending on the spirit of the derive we may not stay under cover for long). Please join us 6pm, Wednesday 6th March outside The Hidden Corner in the Arndale Centre (upper level near escalators to the food court: it isnt that well hidden). if you are missing your fix today, or want to join at a distance, here's how you can join in at a time and place that suits your desire and needs: Let your wander be guided by instinct and sense: follow your heart and your gut. If you do get stuck at a crossroads or junction stop for a while, observe, absorb and then move on – or if you are still unsure follow a non-human animal. As was walk ponder one or both of these: Look for boundaries and borders. Who is being kept out or in? Follow food: smells, litter, signs. How do we consume the city and how does it consume us? Please remember to take care and show respect both to yourself and others. Rest when you need to, stop when you wish. Please don’t spend any money for the duration of your derive I would love it if you shared your adventures and any fieldnotes in some way – on our facebook group “the loiterers resistance movement” twitter (@thelrm) as a comment on the website www.thelrm.org or you can email mlrose@thelrm.org or text/ whatsapp 07974929589 I wish you wonderful wanders. Please also do take note of those contact details, on occasion access to this site is limited but I am always happy to get questions, comments or ideas via any of the above. with love and golden apples Morag x

In his essay “Walking Through Ruins,” part of the Ways of Walking anthology, cultural geographer Tim Edensor writes about the failure of linear narratives to adequately convey the experience of walking. “Stories that are fragmented, non-linear, impressionistic and contingent are better suited than traditional linear narratives to the experience of walking in ruins,” Edensor contends […]

This post is tiresomely long: you may care to jump ahead to a point of interest [sic]. Images will be clearer if clicked upon. IntroductionThe Welsh in HuddersfieldRegistrationWhat is Psychogeography?Boundary no boundaryNew slices through old placesTh...

I was running late to meet Bill and stuck underground. As I hurried out of the station, worried that he might have given up on me, I spotted him at a distance. Though I had never met him before, there was something about the way he was standing; it was the look of someone waiting to walk. […]