psychogeography

Flowing ice? The new concourse. Image from Network Rail.

How King’s Cross Concourse Was Designed 12,000 Years Ago*

And why it looks like a glacier.

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London Rebranded

Familiar with Connaught Village, SoSho, Barking Reach and Archgate?

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Explore London’s Voodoo Psychogeography At Treadwell’s

There’s magic in them there stones.

The route. Click for bigger.

Preview: The London Circle Walk

This Sunday a group of people are imposing a circle on London and walking round it.

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Preview: Align @ Museum Of London

Psychogeographers listen up. Another opportunity to see Align presents itself at the Museum of London on 25 August. If you’re into wacky theories about London’s history and development or enjoy fondling books by Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, then this is a must-see. Robert Kingham …

Arnold Circus hides Victorian secrets. Image taken on a ley-line walk with the performers by Alasdair Mackenzie.

Review: Align @ Bridewell Theatre

Arnold Circus hides Victorian secrets. Image taken on a ley-line walk with the performers by Alasdair Mackenzie. You could say that Robert Kingham and Rich Cochrane are crossing some kind of line by turning psychogeography into performance art. But, then, crossing lines is what psychogeographers …

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Preview: Align @ Bridewell Theatre

Next Friday The Bridewell Theatre invites you to a witness a psychogeographical tour through London, in a show which seeks to unearth the secrets hidden beneath its urban underskirts that the creators have furtled through the city for and kindly brought together in Align, to …

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Interview: Tom Chivers, How To Build A City

Since coming across our radar a few years back, London poet, editor and live literature promoter Tom Chivers has frequently given us good cause to perk up and pay attention – whether by co-founding the award-winning London Word Festival, bringing us a cracking (and frequently …

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The Book Grocer

There’s a rather eerie silence over literary London this week, but with the US election, Bonfire Night and the Lord Mayor’s Show all happening in rapid succession over the next 5 days, we suppose that this is one of those (rare?) occasions when life is …

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Review: Drift 08 By Illuminate Productions

Drift 08 is awfully appealing as an idea, linking the concepts of drifting down a river with the currently fashionable notion of the drift in a psycho geographical sense meaning to wander the streets. Installation art is meant to either inform the viewer about its …

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The Book Grocer

Happy Bloomsday, friends. If on this, the 104th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s epic wanderings around Dublin, our column is even less coherent than usual, don’t blame us and our second-rate attempts to mimic the master. On the other hand, maybe you should. Do we contradict …