psychogeographic

oh yeah, this was a good idea to be part of this walk. so yesterday at 5pm we walked through the city center of nottingham with a group of approx. 20 people, using a different city map. it's quiete hard to explain how this maps works. it has a lot of lines on it and names of places are not really located on the right position.
but it was kind of funny to walk around the city with a group of people that had immense maps in their hands and draw from time to time 'meaningless' phrases on the asphalt.


we followed a given route on this card from the broadway cinema to the main station.
but it was more like that there were phrases given like 'in possesion of a barclays bank account card' and for the next stop 'owner of a vodaphone mobile phone contract'. the task then was to find a connection given on this map between these two location. a connection might be for example that you should be able to know your first and surname to open an bank account or to make a contract for your mobile phone.
there were more than one connection possible. we picked out one, and wrote it one the asphalt anywhere between this two places.
after two hours walking very slow i was frozen to the marrow. i like to exaggerate, but i really enjoyed this cappuccion at the main station in the end.

after this walk, the trampoline festival was about to start back at the broadway cinema with several screenings and art whatever exihibitions?
i really hate being on my own, so i was very glad that Jon took part in this walk too, and wanted to go to the trampoline festival afterwards.

so when we came back the cinema was very busy. and it seemed that nobody knows whats the timetable for the evening. so jon and i were like running from a to b over c to a and b again. down in the studio we where shortlt before takin part in an interactive project that draws neon coloured lines on the wall *smilez*
people get a mobile device, walk around the city for a bit, and on this wall in the studio a line appears almost in real-time and shows the route they are walking.
because of too many difficulties with the timetable respectively the different information we got from different people, we misses to take part in this interactive-neon-lines-drawing-project.

but we saw an interesting screening with four or five different 'shortmovies' oder rather 'documentations'. for example a guy trying to make pictures of a government building. the first guard allowed him to take pictures after having a little discussion for what purpose. a second guard forbid him to take any pictures from any street, sights, perspectives of this buildings.
this was kind of interesting. two people, working for the governement, having the same job but telling different things. the reason for this forbiddance was: the buildings are sensitive. nice!