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From: Rachel Baker <[email protected]> Proposal CITY EXCHANGE no. 1 Moscow/London/Budapest/Berlin The basis of this project is to conduct a series of psychogeographical explorations of various cities and, ultimately, to initiate a network/index of psychgeographical pursuits through physical city exchange and symbolic Net exchange. By inhabiting the cultural/geographical life of another person for a period of time (1 month) individuals would construct parallel/shadow narratives in Chandleresque detective mode, employing psychogeographical strategies for uncovering the secret life of city, suspect, detective and the narrative process itself. The word 'narrative' is open to interpretation and experimentation as Net 'narrative' or hypertext demands. The detective genre has particular resonances for notions about the city and fitting fragments of an elusive whole together in a way that feels conducive to the hypertextual World of the Wide Web. The stories of Paul Auster have informed some of the logic behind this project as has the situationist principles and techniques of psychogeography. Narratives need not be constructed purely from text. Concurrent to the Website, material exhibitions of psychogeographical detective work would be presented to live audiences at affiliated venues in the various cities. SOME KEYWORDS: Narrative/ content; detective, investigate, evidence, clue, city, noir, shadow, accident, parallel, coincidence, trace, uncover, intimate, fragments, motive... Form(s); report, notebook, diary, map, list, dictionary, lexicon, index, encylopaedia... ACTORS : *detectives/suspects *intermediary *clients MEDIUMS : Internet photography/text radio live art space city --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *DETECTIVES/SUSPECTS; Would swap cities and homes with each other. Would conduct investigations of each others individual relation to the city they live in,and search for evidence of the movement, patterns and traces left by each individual on the cultural and geographical life of their city. Evidential material in the form of found objects, photographs, testimonies and anecdotal statements by friends and associates to be gathered and put together to form parallel narratives. Each would investigate each other and guide each other in parallel detective work around their respective cities using psychogeographical techniques and methods. Correspondence would be established via email and entries in a journal. Journal items (images and text) and reports are dispatched to a website for public scrutiny. A good detective is one that notices the accidental. *INTERMEDIARY; Would set specific psychogeographical assignments and edit/maintain/design the web-site and journal. Would arbitrate and mediate between the investigator/ guides. Set some rules and boundaries. *CLIENTS; Interested net browsers/psychogeographers who would like to set specific assignments/tasks for the investigator/guides via the website. Could result in establishing ongoing psychogeographical global network and city exchange. Rachel Baker <[email protected]> -- ............................... .....moscow wwwart centre...... http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/wwwart ............................... -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: [email protected] and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]