Bibliography

My on going bibliography for my practice and my PhD research:



Bibliography
(for research interests across practice and PhD research)

Ackroyd, P. (2000) London: The Biography London: Chatto and Windus

Aragon, L. (1999) Paris Peasant US: Exact Change (Watson-Taylor, S. trans. Original work published 1926)

Auge, M. (1995) Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity London: Verso (Howe, J. trans)

Ballard, J. G. (2006) Kingdom Come London: Harper Perennial

Ballard, J. G. (2004) Millenium People London: Harper Perrenial

Benjamin, W. (1997) Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism London: Verso

Bourriaud, N. (2005) Postproduction New York: Lucas and Sternberg

Bourriaud, N. (2002) Relational Aesthetics Dijon: Presses du reel (Pleasence, S. et al trans)

Breton, A. (1972) Manifestoes of Surrealism Michigan: Ann Arbor (Seaver, R. and Lane, H. R. trans)

Breton, A. (1999) Nadja London: Penguin (Original Work published 1928)

de Certeau, M. (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life Berkeley: University of California press (Rendall, S. trans)

Cohen, M. (1993) Profane Illumination: Walter Banjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution Berkeley: University of California Press

Coverley, M. (2006) Psychogeography Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials

Debord, G. (1992) Society of the Spectacle London: Rebel Press (Knabb, K. trans. Original work published 1967)

Gadamer, H. G. (1975) Truth and Method London: Continuum (Weinsheimer, J and Marshall, D. trans)

Gadamer, H. G. (1981) Reason in the Age of Science MIT (Lawrence, F. G. trans)

Harvey, D. (1973) Social Justice and the City Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Harvey, D. (2005) Paris, Capital of Modernity London: Routledge

Harvey, D (2006) Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development London: Verso

Kester, G (2004) Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art Berkeley: University of California Press

Knabb, K (ed)(2006) Situationist International Anthology Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets

Lefebvre, H. (1991) Critique of Everyday Life Vol. 1 London: Verso (Moore, J. trans. Original work published 1947)

Lefebvre, H. (2002) Critique of Everyday Life Vol. 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday London: Verso (Original work published 1961)

Lefebvre, H. (2005) Critique of Everyday Life Vol. 3: From Modernity to Modernism Verso: London (Elliott, G. trans. Original work published 1981)

Lefebvre, H. (1991) The Production of Space Oxford: Blackwell

de Quincey, T. (1994) Confessions of an English Opium Eater Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Classics (Original Work published 1821)

Roberts, J. (2006) Philosophising the Everyday London: Pluto Press

Roberts, J. (1998) The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday Manchester: Manchester University Press

Ross, K. (1989) The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Rumney, R. and Woods, A. (2001) The Map is not the Territory Manchester: Manchester University Press

Sinclair, I. (2003) London Orbital London: Penguin

Sinclair, I. (2009) Hackney, That Rose Red Empire London: Hamish Hamilton

Self, W. (2007) Psychogeography London: Bloomsbury

Soja, E. (1989) Postmodern Geographies: Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory London: Verso

Solnit, R. (2006) Wanderlust: A History of Walking London: Verso

Vaneigem, R. (2006) The Revolution of Everyday Life London: Rebel Press (Nicholson-Smith, D. trans. Originally work 1967)

Statement, July 2009.

A statement written for the Degree Show catalogue:

My practice is based on walking, that is, walking as a fundamentally creative spatial practice – a process of experience and documentation that produces narratives. The word ‘psychogeography’ is a useful term in describing this practice, in that it is concerned, primarily, with experiences of urban and suburban environments – I am fascinated by buildings, public spaces, monuments, and how memory and narrative become manifest in physical spaces. The work is informed, creatively and theoretically, by a number of spatial practices that can all be described as, or have some aspect that is, psychogeographical.

This body of work presents an experience of an urban environment. It is in many ways an exercise and experiment in shifting perceptions of the city. However, the work does not seek to politicise (although there are political aspects), nor to present a particular message (although there messages buried within the work). This is not what concerns me here. Instead the work seeks to question, and in turn, to open up new ways of experiencing urban environments. It is here that the practices gathered under the term psychogeography are most relevant, as it is psychogeography that symbolically transforms our everyday experiences of these urban spaces.

In short the work is a direct response to the built environment - the photographs compose themselves, texts written by semiotic stimulus. Through the creation of disjunctions and discordance within the work, just as in the changing of our reasons for movement through the city, our perceptions of the representations of these spaces can be changed.