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Wapping:audio tour
www.wappingaudio.org
Walk with me... An invitation tore-imagine the city
Katie Day, Elyssa Livergant and Matt Ball
Creation
Creation
The Derive
One of the basic situationist practises is the derive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Derives involve playful-constructive behaviour and awareness of psychogeographical
effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.
Psychogeography
The study of the precise effects of geographical setting, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual.
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Creation
●Individual walks and documentation●We read newspaper articles●Undertook collective story writing exercises●Undertook historical and field research of the area
Creation - InventoriesOBJECTS
Whiskeypirate patch
childrens paper sailing boats costumesthe waterthe Metro
brightly coloured bunting, red, white and blueribbon
a bench tea
traditional sweetsmy pills
photocameraa letter
a hidden map in the hold of the three sistersa small box with a treasure from the Balkans War
the crown jewels under the pirate’s coatred head scarf
a stiff g& t.an old van
There are notices surrounding the woods demanding ‘NO ENTRY. MENTAL MATT THE MISFIT MIDGET RESTS HERE.
Creation - Inventories
CHARACTERS
lost friendsthe missing river
my first wife my child
a crazy man Long John Silver
the Messiahthe piratesthe king
the selected few Matt
the queenWilliam Shakespeare
the women in wapping Captain Hook
my beloved Angelinathe priest
matt and his ex-girlfriendthe daring Captain Spirit
Creation - Inventories
LOCATIONS
the red bridgeornamental water gardens
the gallows the rear of Wellington Terrace
Henry’s bar wapping woods
a bench the hold of the three sisters
his fortressthat tiny island
Creation - Inventories
SITUATIONS and ACTIONS
a wake we sat in the woods
I first kissed himI said goodbye to my mummy
I cried the whole eveningwaiting for a boat to come and pick me up and help me forget him.
She shouted ‘help’. Nobody went to help herTake all the money and leave
The opening of News International was truly an affair to rememberHe was yelling. She was yelling
the priest had already begun to prepare the funeralI couldn’t tell if they were the police
tied up in the back of an old vanThey were all smiles and laughter
a birthday tea ceremony
Creation
The Wake
Creation
Re – mapping from memory
Creation - Maps
Creation - Maps
Creation
Matt says...
FOR ME WAPPING IS a PERSONAL experience. Its About one persons movement through time and space alone. This is how we experienced
Wapping on our initial meanderings – like a film set waiting to be occupied. We went out and wandered, alone. When we walked, things caught our
eyes; a disused shopping centre, a pirate ship, a lifebelt floating in a pond and they sparked off our imagination. We wanted to allow the walkers
imagination to be sparked too, so we created stories. Stories that reflected our experiences of the area. Stories stolen from people we met. Stories that mixed the history of the real Wapping – a history of Dockers and printworks – with a fictional history where legendary figures would sail the high seas on
peace missions or hang from a rope until they be dead for piracy. Throughout all the stories our focus was the human being at the centre of an
experience, and how this person interacts with their environment.
Route
The walk
Why we chose audio as our medium
The walk
The Walk and the Walker
The walk
MultiplicityMatt says...
The decision to focus on an elderly lady, was in a sense, calculated. A woman whose story instantly places her as part of my grandparents generation is one of the most easily associated with by the
largest number of people. This reassuring grandmotherly presence was able to introduce the walker to the other Wapping and in doing so make the Walker confront the multiple possibilities of the terrain through which they traverse. To see the environment we take for granted in a new light and create a space in which they might consider the streets of this odd piece of London real estate anew, in all its
beauty, history and bizarreness.
The walk
New / alternative perspectives / movement
What are we evaluating?
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