Friday Night!!
Performing Uncharted Territories · A Tour Under the UmbrellaPerformance
What if uncharted territories are not remote places but unnoticed dimensions of the spaces we inhabit every day? This online lecture-performance explores the body as a cartographic instrument capable of revealing invisible urban geographies through touch, attention and minimal performative actions. Drawing on artistic projects centred on walking, guided tours and performative cartographies, the presentation proposes that territories are not simply discovered but produced through embodied experience. Combining critical reflection, documentation and short participatory actions, the session invites participants to rethink mapping as a performative practice, where the body creates alternative ways of perceiving and inhabiting familiar environments.
Elia Torrecilla Patiño
Elia Torrecilla is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Her practice explores the body as a listening device, walking as a methodology, and the city as a living archive. – Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/elia_torrecilla/ – Walk Listen Create – https://walklistencreate.org/author/elia-torrecilla/ – Institutional information – https://www.umh.es/contenido/Estudios/:persona_142663/datos_es.html – International Minimal Performances in Video- https://cuerpourbanoenacci.wixsite.com/urbanbodyinaction
Puer to SenexFilm
Puer to Senex is a psychogeographic film series documenting a solo van journey from London to Nordkapp, the northernmost point of Europe, and back. This screening presents the first episode: shot in the forests and lakesides of southern Sweden, manuscript fragments appear as captions over landscape footage, mapping an inner journey alongside a geographical one. The work applies Carl Jung’s framework of individuation — the passage from Puer Aeternus to Senex — to territory that is as much psychological as it is physical. Uncharted in every sense: a man alone on a road he has never travelled, looking for a self he hasn’t met yet.
Yoan Segot
Yoan Segot is a French-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist working across animation, music, writing and film photography. His current project, Puer to Senex, is a psychogeographic body of work in progress.
https://www.yoansegot.com/puer-senex
Swansea Monologues
Films
Matthew Walters
All-American Ruins: Universal Atlas Cement Plant
Film
Part documentary, part personal journal, All-American Ruins: Universal Atlas Cement Plant explores the intimate relationships we form with place—and how abandoned landscapes can become containers for imagination, reflection, and healing. Based on a very real experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, the short film follows artist Blake Pfeil into a massive abandoned cement plant, using the landscape as a lens through which to consider survival, heartbreak, and the things—and people—we sometimes have to leave behind.
- Winner: Best Experimental Short, Virginia Queer Film Festival
- Winner: Audience Choice, Albany Film Festival
- Winner: Michael Ajakwe Award for Innovation, Sydney Web Fest
All-American Ruins
Blake Pfeil is a Press Gazette Future of Media Awards nominee and creator of All-American Ruins, a fantastical multimedia travelogue that recounts his expeditions to abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. – Website – https://www.blakepfeil.com/allamericanruins.html – Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/allamericanruins – Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/@allamericanruins
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher Film
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher is a 65-minute cinematic experiment exploring the continuing relevance of the late theorist’s ideas on capitalism, culture, and the future. Directed by Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor (collaborating as Close and Remote) the film was made in 2024-2025 using Instagram (@markfisherfilm) as a methodological tool to find collaborators, generate research and disseminate content.
With over 70 invited contributors listed the film blends documentary, performance, new music, and hauntological fiction. The main narrative follows Parkins – a time-slipped character – through ghostly landscapes and digital spaces, tracing Fisher’s thoughts from the 1990s to our algorithmic present. A second narrative emerges from interviews conducted with theorists, journalists, and artists whose life and work have been influenced by him.
The film embodies Fisher’s call for collective imagination beyond capitalist realism. It ends in the room with a discussion about agency and what we can do next. This has proven to be an important part of the film’s success.
The has now toured globally to Europe, South America, Australia and many other countries, with screenings and Q&A events at a variety of locations. Full details on tour.
Close and Remote: closeandremote.net
Psychogeography Karaoke
Karaoke
Were you Born Under A Wandering Star? Are you on the Road To Nowhere? Would you Walk 500 Miles? Come and sing your fave psychogeography songs! Solos, duets, group and community singing, Non-singers, the tuneless and off-key are actively encouraged! Opt for the traditional words or adapt your lyrics. All musical styles welcome.Uncharted Territory: Has Psychogeography Karaoke ever happened before?
Nightingale & SageNightingale & Sage’s multidisciplinary artistic practice combines creativity, walking and therapeutic modalities.
http://www.nightingaleandsage.com/
SATURDAY 19TH 5WCOP!
Studies for a Loving Machine
Installation
Studies for a Loving Machine presents working notes and methods for observing the invisible systems that choreograph life on Earth. Energy, capital, housing, logistics, healthcare, food, data and borders distribute access, risk and possibility in ways felt personally but rarely perceived structurally. The ‘studies’ function as tools for picturing such networks. The installation invites participants to drift through visual and sonic elements, making visible the unseen architectures that shape our emotional and behavioural experience of place. It proposes the “loving machine” as a practice of attentive observation and re-imagining in territories without clear maps.
Ryan Samuel Davies // proxyditeRyan Samuel Davies is a Welsh artist working across video, sound, sculpture and text, based in Abertawe.
‘An archival survey of my use of psychogeographic methods in the teaching of experimental anthropology (2018-2024)’
Installation
Documents, notes, photos and artefacts from Farid’s teaching at German universities. This installation documents students’ testing of psychogeographic methods as field research techniques for experimental approaches to anthropology.
Simon Farid
Simon Farid is sometime visual artist, occasional academic and moretime gallery guard at an art gallery in London. He makes work within and across these three fields.
Walking Keteke: A psychogeography of Togo’s colonial railway.
Film
Walking Keteke is a site-responsive adaptation of the Keteke video installation, first presented as such in Togo, January 2026. Emerging from a collaborative endeavour in which Togoleseartist Dodji Amétébé and Steyn Hoogakker walked the entire length of Togo’s colonial railway, the installation combines documentary photography, archival material and field recordings in a continuous ten-minute loop. Rather than documenting a journey, it invites visitors to inhabit the railway as a lived archive of infrastructure, where colonial histories, infoformal mobilities and everyday life converge. Walking became both artistic practice and ethnographic method, revealing the railway as simultaneously uncharted and uncharted territory, physically, socially and imaginatively over time. Visitors are invited to download an illustrated field note accompanying the installation which offers a downloadable reflection on walking as a collaborative, sensory and decolonial method of inquiry.
Dr Steyn Hoogakker is an interdisciplinary researcher, visual ethnographer and documentary photographer whose work explores infrastructure, critical development and everyday life through collaborative, decolonial and sensory research across the Global South.
Dodji Amétébé is a Togolese artist and cultural practitioner, founder of Culture Together and Cultural Space Aliwonou. His work explores place, memory and cultural heritage through collaborative artistic practice, community engagement and locally rooted cultural initiatives.
Another Job, Heaven Sent
Film
Her upstairs has sent our two angels on a job to clean angels in the cemetery but, with a water bottle and a couple of toothbrushes, will they comply?
Pink and grAy Pink and grAy (Sylvia Causer and Andrea Freeman) are a Live Art/Performance Art Duo based in the North of England. We describe ourselves as two mature women doing daft things, seeking to explore deep social issues often through humour. Our work is based on the ridiculous rituals of human communication exploring the fragility of relationships to meaningful things in our lives. Often, our work explores the invisibility of older women in today’s society.
Through / Flow | Llif / Trwy
Film
A collaboration between Tricia Enns and Euros Rowlands. The layers of humans, natural and built up spaces we encounter as we move through the cities we both live in. Rather then try to make sense of these layers, complex and sometimes chaotic, this work celebrates the messiness, and draws attention to the beauty that these visual, and auditory, layers create.
Tricia Enns is a multidisciplinary artist (Montreal, Canada) who uses walking to highlight overlooked elements of public space.
Euros Rowlands is an artist (Swansea, Wales) using paint and collage to draw attention to layered complexities.
Peak Darkness/Induced Synchronicity: An Experiment in Psychogeographic Methodology
Film
Peak Darkness is the next stage of Arthur Fortune’s psychogeographical journey following Sea Freret. A work in progress, it begins at Winnats Pass befofore Arthur, distinguished by his improbably large fake head, is reluctantly drawn deeper into the Dark Peak, from climbing Kinder Scout with the Aetherius Society to exploring caves, drowned villages and forgotten folklore. Through playful ritual, induced synchronicity, chance operations, symbolic intervrventions and cut-up techniques, each expedition generates experimental films and narratives from field recordings, local histories and unexpected encounters, revealing uncharted territory within one of Britain’s most thoroughly mapped landscapes.
Wayne Hoyle
Wayne has worked in the criminal justice system for nearly three decades. He’s taught English in prison, slowly built trust with inner city gangs and currently advises on violence prevention. He sits as a Magistrate in adult courts. Ongoing creative psychogeographial pursuits form part of an elaborate release valve from the everyday. Big fan of chips.
https://www.instagram.com/wmhoyle?stkn=MXJoNmY2djdzYTUwbw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Three Potentially Contentious Essays
Essays
- Psychogeography and Succotash
- The Stationary Drift: Psychogeography and the Architecture of Panic
- Estate Agents of Doom: Scooby Doo vs The 1%
For Full essays please head here.
Will Vigar
Will Vigar is a writer whose work explores memory, symbolic worlds, ritual, architecture, landscape and the ordinary structures through which people make life habitable. His essays combine philosophy, cultural criticism and autobiography to examine the ways people inhabit time, place and meaning.
Looking for O
Self-directed Walk
Looking for O involves walking and looking with only an end point (time/place) fixed. The remit is to look down regularly, both to enjoy the fabric of the ground, and to be vigilant for – and log –encounters with zero. The rich and varied textures of city paths are studded with dropped Os.These are the ubiquitous rubber hairbands fallen from heads in city streets. These small circles appear meaningful: detritus as punctuation but are also quite literally ‘something as nothing’. Participants may photograph finds in situ and share their imagery at the end meeting point.
Dr Karen Rann
At Budapest’s Fine Art Academy, I made wings for unloved buildings. Since then, overlooked places (and voids), informed walk/performances in Norway, Japan, Ireland, Germany and Romania. I gained my PhD in 2022. I am a freelance artist currently unattached to an institution.
Duck Duck Swan
Self-directed and group game
Come ‘n’ play DUCK DUCK SWAN, v.similar to childhood party-game DUCK DUCK GOOSE. Each player is invited to conceptualise the entirety of Capitalocenic Swansea as other DUCK DUCK SWAN players; to play, tap* ‘DUCK’ (e.g. rogue crisp packet), ‘DUCK’ (e.g. fluffy chihuahua), ‘DUCK’ (e.g. a leaf), ‘DUCK’ (e.g. pavement), ‘DUCK’ (e.g. exhaust fumes), et cetera until – at whim – ‘SWAN!’ (e.g. sunbeams) then allow yourself to be chased and potentially got however that might manifest thence next player starts tapping. Let the game play out, observing & recording its progress / results whichever way you so plîs.
*with respectful ethical consideration.
Amy Grandvoinet
Amy is currently completing a PhD in so-called literary psychogeographies at the universities of Aberystwyth and Cardiff. Find out more, if you plîs, at amygrandvoi.net and /or go to Instagram & seek @amy_y_k_grandvoinet. Mer sea, bay bee.
WalkingThruSenses
Self-directed walk
Where the difference is this is less drone-focused and more focused on the experience of walking by yourself/with someone in an alternative mindset.
https://illestpreacha.itch.io/walkingthrusenses
Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha)
An experiential Storyteller/Creative Coder/Data Practitioner that transforms information into experiences that nurtures discussion/reflection/interaction. Crafted through a mixture of sports/health, technology and a multi-sensorial approach to design/creation/data.
https://illestpreacha.itch.io/https://blog.illestpreacha.com/
Exploring Contemporary Ley Lines
Presentation
In recent years new ley lines have been created, taking us in to unchartered territory – can anyone now create a ley line? How can they be activated? What is the purpose? Sarah-Jane presents on some recently created ley lines including the K-line, the Soup-line and the Hurdy Gurdy line.
Vauxhall Astra
Vauxhall Astra is a tour guide and psychogeographer from Vauxhall in London. She is interested in the formation of modern rituals through explorations of the built environment and is currently a student at UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture, and a lecturer at Morley College London. Her most recent projects include documenting pilgrimages to IKEA, walking the K-Line, writing about the Peoples Pyramid and documenting Wetherspoons’ carpets
A Psychogeography of Westminster
Talk/Presentation
Westminster is one of the most psychogeographically loaded spaces in Britain: a building designed to produce deference, awe and a sense of self-delusion in everyone who passes through it. Drawing on three years working inside the House of Commons, this talk applies a psychogeographical lens to the experience of political power: the spatial logic of exclusion and access, the murky camaraderie of the pubs, the eeriness of the Committee Corridor. It asks what the architecture of power does to the people inside it, and what it might mean to drift through “Uncharted Territory” when the territory is the state itself. I believe that Parliament, both as an institution largely closed to the public and as a place that seems to have largely escaped the notice of psychogeography, is absolutely uncharted territory.
Angus Forbes-Cable
I am a writer, artist and former parliamentary staffer who helped pass a piece of legislation now on the statute book. I came to psychogeography through Will Self.
System for a Loving Machine
Talk/Presentation
System for a Loving Machine explores how communities can resist extractive technological models and instead build decentralised tools that prioritise care, transparency and collective wellbeing. Rather than letting dominant infrastructures dictate social and environmental futures, the talk sets out practical strategies for reclaiming control over technologies that shape daily life and developing community-led alternatives that foster harmony instead of extraction. Drawing on artistic and systems-thinking approaches, it proposes the “loving machine” as a framework for creating tools that help us navigate emerging technological landscapes with greater equity and shared intention.
Ryan Samuel Davies // proxydite
Ryan Samuel Davies is a Welsh artist working across video, sound, sculpture and text, based in Abertawe.
Charting the Derive with a little help by Technology
Presentation
How to preserve the magic of the dérive while striving for the“study of the precise laws … of the environment”, by the use of technology? We want to present the results of a psychogeographical experience in which our (prompted) dérive participants explored a rural environment and recorded their emotional journey on their phones in a distraction-minimising environment. Plotting the results on a conventional map later on, temporary impressions turn into mental layers charted across a territory. While embracing its potential, we feel the need to discuss the risks and distractions of technology-enhanced drifting.
5PgSZB – 5.Psychogeographischer Salon Zürich-Berlin
Having walked psychogeographically presumably since the pandemic, the four feet behind the Salon create formats often involving the use of music, trying to evade pure “Spaziergangswissenschaft”
The Dérive and Uncharted Digital Space
Presentation/talk/provocation
The theory of the dérive – broadly translated from French as drift – was first conceptualised by Guy Debord and the Situanationalist International in the 1950s. Though coined amidst a post-war reimagining of (mostly) urban spaces in Europe, I argue that the looseness of the original definition offers opportunities for cultural geography more broadly. In particular, the dérive can be used to conceptualise uncharted everyday spaces, particularly online environments, whose form could not have been imagined by its author.NB this is a forthcoming chapter in the book Concepts for Cultural Geography
Aled Singleton
Aled Singleton is a Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff ff University. He is interested in long-term emotional and affective attachments to space and place.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/singletona1https://www.instagram.com/aledsingleon/
The Diwedd Garden: The Garden for the End of Things
Presentation
I dive into investigates the fragmented nature of the Diwedd Garden—a guerrilla garden I cultivated from waste and fly-tipped materials on a forgotten plot overlooking Swansea Bay, South Wales. Situated on a liminal hillside alleyway, this assemblage-based practice explores how psycho-geographers might adopt ‘broken world thinking’ (Jackson 2014: 221) to engage creatively and critically with the production of urban space.
Tatiana Bodnar
https://linktr.ee/themicrourbanisthttps://www.instagram.com/the_micro_urbanist/
Aliens with Random Guidebooks
Walk
Imagine that the members of our group are aliens, just materialized in Swansea, with no knowledge of our environment or context. All we have to understand our surroundings is a collection of random reference material. Participants on the walk will be given one or two manuals/guides that would seem unhelpful: aviation law for pilots, poisonous plants of the Pacific Northwest, the slate quarries of Pembrokeshire, Sri Lankan wildlife, palmistry, dream interpretation. What connections and revelations will we chart and discover if we use these outwardly irrelevant guides and fresh eyes?We might interpret objects like a loud vent, a heap of rusted cars, a spiral shape in the pavement, a discarded woolly hat, or anything that catches our imagination. We will use the guidebooks to look for clues about the meaning of these features. We might consult an index for “circle” or skim text to find a mention of a colour we can see, and then read what the book has to say. Together we will build a narrative that is intuitive and strange.
Kristina Rothstein
I make zines, hand-bound books, audio guides and maps. At 4WCoP in 2024, I presented the walk “Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to a fictional heritage ruin.”
- Walking art and book arts projects: https://smartcookiepublishing.wordpress.com/
- In Search of Lost Venues, podcast/walking art audio project: https://insearchoflostvenues.libsyn.com/ & https://insearchoflostvenues.wordpress.com/
A walk into, with and beyond your imagination; creative imagery, relaxation, mapping
Indoor Creative Imagery and Relaxation session, and mapping session
An opportunity to be still, to be curious and to dream
Travel and the explore with your mind
Step into and wander amongst your imagination
Journey during a Creative Imagery and Relaxation session
Then draw, document, map or chart your voyage
An indoor session led by an experienced Complementary Therapist, Walk Leader and Map Maker
Uncharted Territory theme: Exploring the unknown journeying of the imagination
Nightingale & Sage
Nightingale & Sage’s multidisciplinary artistic practice combines creativity, walking and therapeutic modalities
http://www.nightingaleandsage.com/
Chart the Small Things
Walk and collective map-making
This is an expedition to an ‘uncharted’ area and the co-creation of A Map of Small Things. A typical map featuring the gross – roads, buildings, yard – will be remade, collectively, to feature what measures under 3cm. Singly or in groups, we will walk around, focusing on a previously overlooked territory. Participants will add what they find to the map, and we will come together afterwards to share experiences and talk about it. This novel chart will offer the consequent user a record of the tiny, often-overlooked and, perhaps-by-then disappeared. The area will be momentarily charted!
Tamsin Grainger
Tamsin Grainger is a psychogeographer, writer, and Shiatsu practitioner living in Edinburgh. She enjoys walking and wild swimming, and is the 2024 winner of the Marŝato Award for Walking Art.
https://www.tamsingrainger.com/art
EL JUEGO DE LO ECO
Storytelling Game
Last year, my colleague Ainara and I (Alberto) undertook a performative pilgrimage Santiago-Zaragoza (“back home” and trying to avoid the turistified main routes of St Jack’s Path) with the aim of turning all the waste I produced into art and making a collective portrait in the shape of video-chronicles and a documentary (Ainara). The project was called Camino de Compostera. The inorganic part of the waste (rubbish produced during 49 days of the route) turned into an art installation that can be gamified and used as a board game based on Juego de la Oca (traditional game in Spain & Southern France linked to Camino de Santiago). Each box is a piece of rubbish that has a story behind it. When the audience gets to the box, we tell them the adventures we lived when it was generated, and we try to open questions and debates on human impact, footprint and ways of life.
El Juego de lo Eco has brought the uncountable voices of human and non-human entities to Casa Aigaia (Erasmus+ Training Course on Storyrtelling), Tavernes Blanques – Valencia (Caminohabito exhibition / UPV), Museo Orús Utebo (Semana de Prevevención de Residuos), Gallur pavillion (Day of the Tree), La Vía Láctea collective space (premiere in Zaragoza), CDAMAZ (Lo Inorgánico exhibition) and Casa de los Morlanes (Fugar vagar llegar exhibition).
Camino de Compostera (Ainara García and Alberto Monreal)
https://www.albertomonreal.art/
www.instagram.com/caminodecompostera
Before the Drift: Urban Perceptual Literacy and the Collection of Sensitive Urban Data
Experiential Workshop
Before you can drift through a city, you have to be able to see it. Before the Drift is an experiential workshop that rebuilds the perceptual skills psychogeography quietly assumes — multisensory attention, situational awareness, the ability to read atmosphere before naming it. Participants move through the city collecting what we call sensitive urban data: the felt, the overheard, the ineffable — everything the smart city’s sensors miss. No maps, no apps, no shortcuts. Just a trained body, a physical field kit, and a city waiting to be genuinely noticed.
Kimberly McKean
Kimberly McKean is an Italian-American creative director, urban explorer and founder of Fenomeno Studio, a creative practice focused on unconventional tourism and new ways of experiencing cities. Her work explores psychogeography, flânerie, urban observation and playful exploration, using walking, curiosity and participatory practices to reveal the overlooked layers of everyday places. She creates urban experiences, workshops and tools designed to encourage people to slow down, notice more and rediscover the city from unexpected perspectives.
SUNDAY 20TH 5WCOP!
Not Spogami (Competitive Litter Picking)
Drifting litter pick
Not Spogami is a version of a Japanese litter picking game – we can’t officially call it Spogami, so we are playing Not Spogami. Rock up, join a team (groups of 3), get a litter picker (20 max), drift around for an hour collecting rubbish. THERE WILL BE PRIZES.
Tatiana Bodnar
https://linktr.ee/themicrourbanist
https://www.instagram.com/the_micro_urbanist/