Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8YXZTlwTAU

City without clothes

Jana Morgan
Describes her work as exploring memory and other mental and linguistic constructs as they mediate the body's interaction with place.

Los Angeles Aerial # 3
Psychogeography of the crazy quilt (in the fashion of Jackson Pollock) 3' x 4' piece is a collage of vintage fabrics, men's neckties and painted / dyed fabrics, machine and hand stitching.

City Without Clothes (potentials of paradise)

work in progress-velvet, velour and fleece.

Morgan describes this piece as, "a work-in-progress, a sort of map to nowhere (as in utopia)," one from a series of aerial-psychogeography studies. She describes it as personal, in that it's potentially everywhere she ever imagined living, but has never visited. It articulates possibilities and parallel lives that may yet be lived.

Note the link in title to, Guy Debord's 1957 map, 'The Naked City'.
I love this work.
posted by-Mary Allardyce

Chiho Aoshim.

ok now this is the most amazeing thing ever!! Well ok (maybe not..) but i think so!! well this is outside the white cube'ish'.. as its in a tube station... so yes ive shared a wonderfull artist with you all!

Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup

Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup, Search, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1993

Guy Debord

Guy Debord, The Naked City, 1957

Become dérivers

“the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.”

Internationale Situationniste #2, (1958), Theory of the Dérive [Internet] Available from: < http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/314> [Accessed 3 February 2009]

“psychogeography [:] The study of the precise effects of geographical setting, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual.”

Internationale Situationniste #1, (1958), Definitions [Internet] Available from: < http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/7> [Accessed 3 February 2009]

Become dérivers.

Form groups of two to three people to conduct psychogeographical observation and collection of data (images, texts, objects, etc). Conduct your dérive over deliberately pre-arranged periods of a few hours at a time. Avoid the later hours of the night. Agree a meeting place as a point of departure. Modes of movement other than walking may be employed but only as long as a principle of random direction remains within your control (getting on or off buses spontaneously, riding a bicycle, etc.).

The aim is to see the city anew, and to (re-) discover locations to which you might address the creation of new work as form of intervention. We hope this will lead to collective research into the city of York, as we will be able to cross-refer the observations and data emerging from differing dérive methods. You could consider letting a dog take you for a walk, walking blindfolded with a friend, use a map of another place to try to get around, toss coins, follow smells or sounds at whim, turning first left, second right and second right again repeatedly etc….

Consider ways of documenting/mapping each dérive before and while walking. Marking a route with a piece of string, photographing and sequencing images, textually or graphically representing your dérive are initial ideas. Record material for these documents/maps for presentation next week and upload on this blog now.

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Welcome to Outside the White Cube

Outside the White Cube is a project by artists at York St John University who are investigating a range of locations in, and possibly around, the city of York between February-May 2009. We aim to create new work through interaction with off-campus settings and mount a group exhibition of material and works emerging from this enquiry in May. Our initial starting points relate to observation; passages through the environment; identification of settings; mapping; placement / displacement; other creative and critical strategies for generating, moulding and composing material. We are also concerned with image, event and meaning creation in relation to those particular tensions present in the reciprocal interaction of 'art' and 'site'. We hope to use this blog to share images, texts, observations, links as we proceed. The project represents art as research and exchange in the urban context.