Clips from The Devil's Footprints film
Dismantling art, reviews, clever stuff
Buddhist and existential road signs
Wish you were here? Where bodies touch... the film
Or just wander around. Preferably sideways.
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"Hi, I believe you are the publisher of the above book - I simply asked them if you gave student discount and they gave me your email.... And said they would knit me a copy. I live in Saltash.
Thank for your help
Bxxxxxx Hxxxxxx"
New Theatre Quarterly:
With the proviso that the ideas contained in this book can only ever be fully 'realized and theorized on the hoof and in communion with others', this compilation of diary and notebook entries, manifestos and other assembled documents is an intriguing exploration into the practices of a loose coalition of exploratory walkers, pedestrian geographers, and drifting groups.Read the full review at New Theatre Quarterly
...Conceived as a series of approaches to walking, as a resistant cultural practice, mythogeography eschews scientific disciplinarity in favour of invisibility and hybridity - the point of this book being not to present a comprehensive overview or a theoretical framework of 'alternative' ambulation, but rather to offer a 'toolbag of ideas for those wanting to create their own mythogeographical practice'.
...Playfully merging fiction, documentary, and theory and interspersed with Tony Weaver's enigmatic illustrations and design, the text unfolds through extensive footnotes and endnotes, perpetual cross-referencing, and various inserts and asides.
"Andy reads lots of Arthur Machen amongst other things, I read quite a bit of China Miéville, Looking for Jake and Other Stories with people chasing alleys which have disappeared from one city only to reappear in different one, beat up a another street and disappear again. I think our favourite at the moment has to be Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways by Phil Smith though, it's just jam packed with cool ideas and concepts." The Psychogeographical Commission interviewed in Compulsion
Jump to MythoUght 8: A modest proposal for disassemblable urban statuary
MythoMusic: Unless you're in a library, Isao Tomita's Snowflakes Are Dancing (below) is recommended site exploring music...
This is a website for walkers, artists who use walking in their art, students who are discovering and studying a world of resistant and aesthetic walking, anyone who is troubled by official guides to anywhere, urbanists, geographers, site-specific performers, town planners and un-planners, urban explorers, entrepreneurs and activists who don’t want to drive to the revolution.
Depending on who you are and what you want, there are different ways to go:
Here are two introductions to the notion of mythogeography: one for walkers and interested passers-by and another, more robustly contextual, for researchers and students.
The Mythogeography book is a one-stop walkers’ service station.
For advice about getting started with ‘drifting’, here’s a simple starter kit.
Here are some mental exercises for sideways walkers.
Here is an archive of mythogeographical performances, walks, talks and essays.
Here's the difference between psychogeography and mythogeography.
MythoUghts is a provocollection of author Phil Smith's thoughts on affairs current and mythogeographical. We'll notify you of new Mythoughts via Twitter (@mythogeography), Facebook (/mythogeography).
To find out when we add to the archive or launch ideas like ships, sign up for our e-mail updates. They'll be occasional and you can opt out again at any time. Please enter your e-mail address in the box on your left.
Go here for Mythoarchaeology or here for MythoMusic or here for MythOptics or here for the MythoArchive or here for a list of MythoFriends.
Finally, some hoppers... You can also use the left-hand column as a possible site hopper or click on any of these possible hoppers for random transport.
