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Bouncing on Sacrilege: Deller, Debord and Jumping for Joy

It is futile to search in our theories of architecture or dérive for any other motive than the passion for play. Guy Debord (1) As we enter Glasgow Green, my daughter takes aim, like an archer pulling...

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On the edge and further out: to slip through time

It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville I Out on the fringe of gold                         – lip of coastal edge. Eyeing that breath of line                        – flux of...

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The Firebugs of Kreuzberg

Retain your memories but détourn them so that they correspond with your era. Asger Jorn We are in Berlin travelling on the U-Bahn to Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg. It is a gloriously warm April morning...

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s i l e n t l y .. b e i n g .. s i l e n t

silently being silent ~ being silent silently . Now playing: Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem

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Postscript: The (Other) Firebugs of Kreuzberg

Photograph © Nir Naussbaum with thanks A short postscript to a previous post The Firebugs of Kreuzberg: A friend from Berlin commented that the piece was quite different from what they had anticipated...

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T h r e s h o l d

trying to catch a thread of time when theincomingtide becomes the o u  t   g    o     i      n       g        t         i          d           e listening ebb listening for flow an inflexion ebb of...

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4’33″ on a train – John Cage Centennial, 5th September 2012

(c) Edition Peters Our modest contribution to the John Cage centennial celebrations. On 5th September 2012, we decided to undertake a performance of 4’33″on the train from Falkirk High to Glasgow Queen...

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The Woods and the Words

The stories are still told of a time before the water. When the earth lay heaped, black and smouldering. It is said that they tunnelled u n d e                                       g          r...

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(Always) Between Something and Nothing

The white centre … is both an emptiness and an energy generator. Your eye is continually drawn back to its white silence, its void-ness. Then your attention is propelled out again along the twisting...

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Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest

Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A  smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal...

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Ephemera – A short visual drift through the Edinburgh New Town

P e d a g o g y ~ C o n v e r g e / E n t w i n e ~ B r o u g h t o n  M a r k e t  w i t h  r a i n b o w ~ T h e  O l d / T h e  N e w ~ B r o u g h t o n  S t r e e t  w i t h  s m u d g e  o f  m o...

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Walking Score No 1 (After Klee)

taking a line for a walk  ~ Paul Klee taking a walk on a line ~ FPC ~ Walking Score No I (After Klee) ~ Take a map drawn to any scale ~ Draw a line that starts and ends at the same place ~ Attempt to...

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The Poppies are in the Field: Pattiesmuir 26th June 2013

. The poppies are in the field But don’t ask me what that means - Julian Cope There is no long march of progress in this field. No future enlightenment to strive for....

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Ephemera: Dead Cars Dream …

c d e a d r r e s a m c d e a d r s d r e a l c h e m y m Now playing: Poltergeist- Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder). Photographs taken in Digbeth, Birmingham.

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Three steps …

≈ Three steps  may be all it takes to alter our perception of place ≈ A fairly idyllic view taken last weekend from the Fife Coastal Path at Dalgety Bay. An expansive sky animated by great dollops of...

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Silverburn: in the flux and flow of place

≈ We are walking out, along the shoreline, from Leven towards Lundin Links. Coastal energies are in full flow, our field of vision filled with an excess of sand, sea and sky. In the distance, an...

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Some Questions of the Drift

Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy “I ask you:  - What is the weight of light?“ - Clarice Lispector ≈ ≈ ≈ . Merchant’s House, Kirkcaldy . .  - What are the colours of time? . . . Merchant’s House Kirkcaldy II . ....

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Ancient elemental alchemy

. deep time encoded black diamonds murmur fire music. energies of wind and wood weave lambent tongues of ancient elemental alchemy .

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Ephemera: Something of The Wicker Man?

Industrial ghost – winding gear of the Frances Pit Dysart, 08.02.14 Now playing: Matt Berry – Kill the Wolf

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Three Gateways

≈ three gateways a flow            of spring light warming stone ~ Hunter Square Edinburgh 15.02.14

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