If you cannot find the space you say you need, perhaps it is because you assume the space is empty, but it is not.
'Psychogeography Drift' is a free space where contradictions are encountered and where nothing is as it seems. It is a Telegram channel where I host monthly live drift practices, both in Italian and English.
A small hamlet nestled in the 'Pedemontana del Grappa' (Italy) and a story: Giovanni Dalla Costa, left in 1887 from 'Costa Alta', to become Jack Costa, a pioneer in the Alaskan gold rush, and returned after many years to his village, to enjoy the results of his past labours. Until the arrival of the First World War...
Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide), commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, or nos, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula N2O.
Work developed during an artistic residency at 'ISLA' (Higher Education Institute of Latin American Art). I made an emotional map of Antofagasta by collecting personal stories linked between them by the city's places.
In this era in which where every square centimetre of the earth's surface is on a map, photographed, and encoded, can we still explore, experience, and get off track? Can we still take risks? Are we condemned to repeat things already seen, at most mixing ready-made elements, or can we still invent and create anew? Is there still something out there waiting to be discovered?
Psychogeography Performance
San Dona' di Piave (Venezia) - September 13th, 2014
The 'spread city' model is the main cause of city centres' physical and moral emptying, to the advantage of car-centred mobility and the nuclearisation of the traditional and vital dynamics of inhabitants' communities.