How does culture thrive in a lawless liminal space?
The haunting of these histories in King’s Cross within the now. What can we learn about now from that time? What is our relationship with these histories except to nostalgiafy
What’s missing now these spaces are gone? What have we lost? Why does that matter?
Cultural production and consumption in that area and time, an ability to occupy space and partake in culture that allows you physically take the space in a way we can’t afford to now?
Not so much interested in the political situation or organisation of specifically political groups. But acknowledge that politics is a thread in art, communities and subcultures and importantly that people – their bodies, their identities, their lifestyles – become politicised regardless of their level of political engagement. But research is always political.
Junk ensemble
Using the city as a text, and you read that text through walking through it witnessing art created there and creating art in response (speaking back?). How did the city become a person to those who came here to create? A member of their community. Queer, feminist, migrant histories. Look at the layers – maps Borges – of this city. What is considered heritage? What is at risk of being forgotten. What could we learn from what is at risk of being forgotten? Deep mapping
Foucault heterotopia
Living London university of London
Art as put on a pedestal not experiential
Use a critical theory and literary criticism approach. CT in the sense of understanding the cultural production and consumption in the 80s/90s and comparisons with now. LC in the sense of using the city, of locality of KX, as a text rich with chapters, characters (read: subcultures) and themes for analysis. There is a historical element to this, in the openness to uncovering new ground or insights about less documented aspects of the area’s creative history.
The deuce
Maybe pyschogeographic wandering with a playlist of content form that period, making artistic
But I think I’m also really interested in how subculture allows one to transgress their “human” self and become something else, that intersects with place, music, other non-humans. That’s why the mutoids. That’s why rave. That’s why scala
I like going out. I like soaking up the city as it opens up. But I don’t mind walking home either. Waiting. Watching. People going home. Nights winding down. The empty bustop you circle while you wait for a night bus, noticing things. Don’t you think every street could be cinematic. When you’re not from here? I still believe in possibility, it’s not a tired dried up thought lodged in the back of a walnut brain. That a native dublonder would have
Affect and the city: the role of the KX urban space in subculture, art and community
Hillview estate: pogues and Peter doig (painter) lived there
Traffic nightclub as well as the bell
The buildings themselves are like mutoids. Changing from one thing to another.
Focusing on nightlife? Rather the squats
The role of buildings in subcultural activity. The need for physical space.