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Urban exploration in Budapest

21 May, 2023

This coming week, Andrew, Geert, and myself come together for the second WLC summit. After the first meet-up, two years ago, in Eindhoven, in The Netherlands, we will put our heads together to strategise and decide on how to take over the world, in the capital of Budapest. If you're around, come and say 'hi'.

We're also taking the opportunity to, together with Placcc, host a two-day workshop on urban exploration. We have a guest speaker who will walk us through the history of the suburb of Erzsébetváros, locally known as 'Csikágó', Chicago. And we'll dive into the tyranny of the corporate map, Situationism, and how to explore the city on your own terms.

Read up on the event here. Perhaps we will see you there.

To stay in the anti-capitalist mood, which incidentally is the best mood to be in, for our next café on May 30, Bob Parks returns as our café guest, where we will discuss, amongst other things, the conceit of modernism.

Then, you might recall I went on this wander through Europe, for a residency in the north of Sweden, hosted by Northern Sustainable Futures. My time is up, and I'm leaving on a long trip to Budapest today.
The main piece which I put together for In which I go for a walk is designed for projection on the walls of a traveling shipping container. But, the piece is web-based, meaning you can get a good impression of the end result, simply in your browser, by going here. You'll experience a mosaic of videos and images in which you can find me walking from my home, in Brazil, through a dozen, or so, countries, to northern Sweden, and back.

I'm leaving for Budapest. First stop: Östersund. Keep walking!

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Together with Dérive app and Placcc, we're hosting a two-day urban exploration workshop in Budapest, on May 25 and 26.

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A dynamic video piece where I walk from my home in Brazil, to a small town in the north of Sweden, and back. Keep reading
A geographic system of triangles and circles doubling in size is created in the Bonneville Salt Flats to record the arch of the sunset on the summer solstice. It took four days of labor to draw the diagram, and one day to draw the arch of the solstice. All labor was done by the artist and the recording was done wi... Keep reading

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2023-05-21 15:30 UTC · Online
The WRITE ABOUT TREES showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the Urban Tree Festival writing competition, and includes readings of their poetry and pr... Keep reading
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25 - 26 May, 2023 UTC · Budapest, Erzsébetváros, Hungary
On May 25 and 26, together with Dérive app and Placcc, we’re hosting an urban exploration workshop in Budapest. The workshop will focus on the part of the suburb of... Keep reading
2023-05-25 18:00 UTC · British Library, Euston Road, London, UK
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Together with Dérive app and Placcc, we're hosting a two-day urban exploration workshop in Budapest, on May 25 and 26. Keep reading
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Spanish Banks BeachThe tidal flats, crows, eagles, and dogs made for a wonderful walk in the early morning.Location: Vancouver, BCLength: 3 kmCompanions: noneDate: ... Keep reading
This is part of the work I’m putting together for my residency in Moskosel, in northern Sweden. I wanted to use the opportunity of my residency, which was to consid... Keep reading

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GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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