P r e / a m b l e: A 2 day festival of Art and Psychogeography NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2003 Home Festival Overview Participating Artists Schedule of Events About Join the Mailing List Contact PRESENTED BY: Western Front Upgrade 2.0 Special Airplane Kate Armstrong Year Zero One OTHER LINKS: What is Psychogeography? Algorithmic Psychogeography Guy Debord's Theory of the Derive Why Psychogeography? Social Fiction Glowlab Psychogeography.net	Jim Colquhoun W A L K : Peripatetic Randomiser: To Be Used in the Pleasurable Negation of Spectacular Space Meet at the Western Front Date: Saturday, November 1, 2003 Time: 2 pm **THE PERIPATETIC RANDOMISER MAY BE EXPERIENCED AT ANY TIME THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND, JUST DROP IN AND PICK IT UP -- BUT AT 2 PM ON SATURDAY THERE WILL BE AN ORIENTATION ABOUT THE PROJECT.** Ever since I can remember I have been having an ongoing love affair with place and space. Its time we rescued these important concepts from the dead hands of the likes of Richard Long and Hamish Fulton. Their po-faced and lugubriously detached engagement will give way to a willingness to get down and dirty with the meat of our seriously déclassé landscapes. The idea for the Randomiser grew out of frustration with the robotic way I was engaging with my city. Habit and circumstance quickly compel a monocular reading of space; we simply cease to see it as having manifold potentiality. In the words of Robert Smithson, "The strata of the earth is a jumbled museum. Embedded in the sediment is a text that contains limits and boundaries which evade the rational order . . ." By introducing an element of chance to the equation we can both salute our illustrious forebearers (situationists, surrealists, etc) and help destabilize the beige monstrosity that is the shopping/leisure experience! Of course all major western cities are now safe, well-lit and well-policed arena (at least during the daylight hours) in which the only possible response is that of spending money. I want to disrupt this consensus and the self-replicating meme that sustains it. I don¹t want them to have it all their own way! In using the city as a playground we disengage from the orderly business of capital while at the same time realising its potential as a limitless arena for personal and political exploration. And let's face it, it's fun to mess with their heads! Jim Colquhoun Glasgow. Autumn 2003 BIO: Jim Colquhoun is an artist and writer from Scotland. His work constructs a mythology of place in and through time, a journey into chance and perhapsness. Using performance, research and wild speculation he has attempted to liberate his environment from those who have conspired to enforce a monocular reading of space. Colquhoun is a recent graduate from the Environmental Art Department of the Glasgow School of Art. The Peripatetic Randomiser was tested on the streets of Glasgow in September of this year with mixed results. Jim Colquhoun's blog