Time/Place.

When I was a small girl I was lucky enough to be brought up on a farm in Somerset, open fields were my own personal time and place. I used to go field walking with my Jack Russel Kandy, and we walk for what seemed miles looking for bits and pieces on the ground you could find all sorts of things for example, once I found a rusty pair of round victorian glasses with the glass still in, and this would send me off into another world because I would wonder what kind of person wore these. The open field can be like a time capsule in itself, and for me would be a valuable learning tool through my findings as an educational experience.

Janet Cardiff - The Missing Voice (1999)

Janet Cardiff uses maps of London to create her own tours which are a narrative through time and space. Maps are not used just for getting to a final destination but we use maps to navigate through spaces we are not familiar with. What happens in our mind while we are navigating through that space?

Janet Cardiff tries to relate to the listener a stream of consciousness scenarios that she invents in her mind while she walks through the streets. Starting at Whitechapel Library, visitors were given a Discman. You would leave the building and find yourself transported in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what’s imagined begin…?

ALSO CHECK OUT:

Richard Wentworth An area of outstanding unnatural beauty (2002)

AND:

Scanner (aka Robin Rimbauld) Surface noise (1998) - He lay the sheet music to 'London Bridge is falling down' over a map of the city. At the points where notes from the music fell across the map, Scanner took photos with a digital camera and recorded the sound that was happening at that point too, creating a 'soundtrack to a living city'.

mis-GUIDE

mis-GUIDE
On the subject of having to follow defined paths around places we visit I thought this would be relevant.
The idea, instead of setting out a set route from which to experience place, is to give starting points/ideas from which people can get off the routine path and see even familiar sights from a different perspective. Take a peak, break the boredom.

Click Here To Learn About Christian Nold's Bio-Mapping Project

Google Earth, GPS and biometric tracking is all you need...


Christian Nold: Greenwich Emotion Map, BioMapping.net 22.08.07
Suggested Reading: Coverley, M (2006) Psychogeography, Herts: Pocket Essentials