Join us for a drink to celebrate the launch of the festival and our friendship with TRIP. View intriguing images from Jane Samuels haunted and beautiful The Abandoned Building Project and situationist inspired posters Psychogeographic Posters from Pam Shaw and John Rooney, find out more about psychogeography and expect a few surprise treats too…

*TRIP - Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives

Between June 19 and 21, 2008, TRIP brings together artists, academics, movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an interdisciplinary conference with a citywide series of actions, interventions and exhibitions.

TRIP’s theme is psychogeography, and will explore many of the avenues this field of action, theory and research is currently entering, including neogeography, deep topography, urban intervention, locative media and collaborative mapping. TRIP enables the previously separate worlds of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical environment.

Beginning as a reaction to the industrial revolution, the re-imagining of the city by romantics, bohemians, and avant gardists evolved into a diverse range of strategies, practices and arguments, from the psychogeographic drift or derive to the artistic intervention. By the 1990s these were being utilised by artists, writers, activists, and historians, attempting to negotiate urban and rural space in the postmodern world.

But practices developed in the twentieth century encounter a different world in the twenty first - a more observed and policed world on the one hand, a more corporate, globally-connected world on the other. Increasingly the body, social, individual and political, is the site of contradictory demands - the demands to consume versus the demands of control.

TRIP’s artist-led events will take place throughout Manchester, in public spaces and leading galleries including greenroom and Urbis, with TRIP’s academic conference will be based at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Other TRIP events at greenroom

Wed 28th May to Sat 21st June

Exhibitions The Abandoned Buildings Project Jane Samuels : FREE : exhibiting as part of TRIP*

Thu 5th June to Tue 26th August

Exhibitions Psychogeographic Posters John Rooney & Pam Shaw : FREE

Thu 19th June, 2pm to 3pm

Performance Manchester, Mythogeography and Mobile Machinoeki Phil Smith : FREE : greenroom openspace*