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Enchanted Things: signposts to a new nomadism/ Phil Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [England]: Triachy Press, 2014Description: 90 pages: colour illustrations; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9781909470354
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.2 SMI
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Exhibition Catalogues 709.2 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100589309

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The world is on the move; seas rise, villages are emptied, coastlines are redrawn, deserts spread to the suburbs, snowfall increases and lost battlefields re-emerge. Only soap operas give any impression of permanence. Traditional fortresses like home, dwelling and nation are increasingly exposed as porous, fabricated and expensive things. The ways are opening for a pervasive and benevolent nomadism, a new art of living, on both grand and individuated scales."

In this lovely photo-essay, Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist (Wrights & Sites and Crabman) and author (Mis-Guides , Mythogeography, On Walking and Counter-Tourism ) draws our attention to a "chorus of surprises" "yelling from the sides of the road like particularly unruly spectators at a parade".

Focusing on signs, simulacra, objects and places that prove to be more, less or other than what they seem (all illustrated throughout the book) the author encourages us to look afresh at our quotidian urban and rural surroundings to see what lies just beneath the surface.

Once identified, these absurd, empty, recalcitrant enchantments can transform the way we live and think and occupy our inner and outer landscapes.

Urging us to "hypersensitize ourselves to the full blast of contemporary landscape's intensity", Phil Smith explains how to "let our tentacles unfurl" in order to explore and see the world around us in all its glory.

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