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Tag Archives: psychogeography
On the Coffin Road
We approach the village from the North by the coffin road known as Windylaw. A sign indicates that this path was used for many centuries by people to carry their dead to Rosyth Church. Sometimes they would come from as … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Psychogeography, Symbol
Tagged Age of Entropy, Alan Reid, church, Coffin Road, Fife, Fringes of Fife, George Monbiot, Goliath, Grangemouth, gravestones, graveyard, House of the Binns, Inchcolm Abbey, John Geddie, Kidnapped, Limekilns, Liminal City, Longannet Power Station, Medusa, Pogles Wood, psychogeography, RCHMS, resurrectionists, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Wyatt, Rosyth, Rosyth Dockyard, Shipbuilding, Tam Dalyell, Windylaw
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Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest
Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal smudge bleeds into sun saturated blue. The universe … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, Sounds of Spaces and Places
Tagged Banquo, Big Black Cat Sightings, Bordie Moor, Boundaries, Charles Olson, Culross, Devilla Forest, Drystane Dyke, Fife, Fife Psychogeography, Kincardine, Macbeth, Meith Stone, Owl, psychogeography, Scots Pine, Spectral Tees, Standard Stone, Terminalia, Walter Benjamin, Witches
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The Wilderness Does Exist – A Field Trip
How could we not be intrigued? Casting an eye over some local maps from the late 1800s. Stumble and trip. The Wilderness. An actual place on the map. The delineated form resembles a long-front-legged cartoon fox. We resist the urge … Continue reading
Ephemera – Dunfermline Linen Co.
Restored ghost sign in New Row Dunfermline. Does this now make it a sign haunted by a ghost sign? Now Playing: Triosk – Moment Returns
Posted in Ephemera - Signs and Signifiers, Psychogeography
Tagged Dunfermline, Dunfermline Linen Co., Fife, Ghost Sign, New Row, psychogeography
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Into the Void – A Field Trip
It is often the shortest journey, undertaken with least expectation, that offers up an excess of possibility beyond what we expect to see. It’s always worth exploring the other side of the barbed wire fence. Never keep to the path. … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Psychogeography
Tagged abandoned house, abandoned jetty, abandoned pier, Aragon, Burntisland, cubist, Cup and Ring, Dalgety Bay, Fife, Fife Coastal Path, fly tipping, Inverkeithing, Letham Hill, Paris Peasant, Prestonhill, psychogeography, Quarry, Richard Serra, rock giant, Spinner, The Binn, The Void, The Zone, wildness
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A Saunter through Summerhall
Buildings loom over us and persist beyond us. They have the perfect memory of materiality Longevity has no chance without a serious structure Stewart Brand – How Buildings Learn We finally got the chance to have a good investigative wander … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Psychogeography
Tagged 7x7, Archie Shepp, Audrey Hepburn, David Michalek, Eadweard Muybridge, East Weymss, Edinburgh, Fewer Laws, Fife, Figure Studies and Slow Dancing., George Wyllie, Guy Debord, How Buildings Learn, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jean Pierre Muller, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jimmy Boyle, Joseph Beuys, Kassin, Les Reveries du Promeneneur Solitaire, MacDuff Earls of Fife, Malcolm McLaren, Marina Abramovich, Moondog, More Examples, Morton Feldman, Mulatu Astatke, Neil Armstrong, Nile Rodgers, Patti Smith, Phenotype Genotype (PhG), psychogeography, Ravenscraig Castle, Richard Demarco, Robert Kuśmirowski, Robert Wyatt, Robin Gillanders, Sean O'Hagan, Stewart Brand, Summerhall, Tadeusz Kantor, Terry Riley, The Philosopher's Garden Redux, Vivienne Westwood, William English
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This Land…
◊ This land these rocks and stones vessels of deep time being before being inscribed in landscape before being named and claimed as landscape. This land a made place a place … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Happenstance, Poetry, Psychogeography, Symbol
Tagged Isle of Arran, Liminal, Machrie Moor, poetry, psychogeography
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Berlin dérive – Tiergarten
Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Walter Benjamin awaken, to the spooling thread of a … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Poetry, Psychogeography, Uncategorized
Tagged Bauhaus, Ku'damm, Landwehr Canal, poetry, psychogeography, Rosa Luxemburg, S-Bahn, Tiergarten, Walter Benjamin
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Rosyth Edgelands Dérive
We are in dangerous territory, walking westward out of the town of Rosyth, along the A985, one of ‘Britain’s killer roads’. This arterial incision into the connective tissue of the Rosyth edgelands is to fully engage with the disruptive polarities … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Psychogeography, Symbol, Uncategorized
Tagged aircraft carriers, allotments, Coffin Road, dérive, edgelands, Fife, Gagarin Way, nuclear submarines, psychogeography, Rosyth, Rosyth Dockyard
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