CHRISTINA RAY



"Generative Psychogeography is an open source concept which describes a method to explore the urban environment. It is as simple as this: stroll through the city on directions like 'first street left, second street right, first street right, repeat'. The simplicity of this route can be deceptive, it turns out that the route which you will take is difficult to predict for more than 3 turns (in an asymmetrical city that is). Add to this that by strolling like this you pass through the city in a way which is so thoroughly alien to the way you normally use the city that you find yourself confronted with the city in new light."

DESCRIPTION from Social Fiction, organizers of the Hot Summer of Psychogeography 2002:
For this session, a new feature will be added to the traditional walk: the 'virus' walker (stalker?), whose function is to locate and track other participants and cause them to change course.



HOW TO LOCATE

Date: Sunday, June 16th, 3 pm.

Meet at the Free Manifesta office, on the ground floor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, at Römerberg near the Schirn Kunsthalle. Subway stop Römer.

The walk will last one hour and finish up at a local bar for refreshments.

You may want to bring a pen and paper and/or a camera to document the walk, which will take place rain or shine...



ABOUT THE ARTIST

Christina Ray is an artist and co-founder of glowlab, a Brooklyn-based art, music and writing collective. Her work explores how conscious experience shapes and is shaped by physical space, memory and perception. Ray's works in photography and painting have been exhibited in the U.S., Japan and Europe; current projects involve interactive digital media and interventions in public spaces. Collections include those of the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, New York‚s Consul General of Mexico, and the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. Born in San Diego, California in 1969, Ray spent several years studying and working in Japan, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.



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