6 Responses to Coming Soon… an Experimental Psychogeographic Collaboration

1. David N. says:

   03/07/2013 at 10:23 pm

   Bobby,

   This will be something to look forward to!

   Are you able to say where the Merseyside locations will be?

   David

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   • Bobby Seal says:

     03/07/2013 at 10:38 pm

     Well… the project revolves around each person responding to images from a particular location provided by the other… so I shouldn’t really jump the gun on that one as we’re still working on it and my collaborator’s response needs to be relatively unmediated by any written or verbal cues I provide, if that’s possible! All will be revealed!

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2. Matt Gilbert says:

   30/07/2013 at 11:24 am

   Hi Bobby

   Looking forward to this. I can’t remember where the quote comes from but I once read/heard Liverpool described as ‘the most eastern city of the United States’

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   • Bobby Seal says:

     30/07/2013 at 1:59 pm

     That’s a valid description. But sadly it was a link forged by means of the slave trade. I remember Iain Sinclair once saying (in a documentary about Niall Griffiths) that he suddenly ‘got’ Liverpool once someone pointed out that it was a Celtic city and not an English one.

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3. Matt Gilbert says:

   30/07/2013 at 2:23 pm

   It’s fascinating how cities in the same country – especially a small one such as England – can have such different personalities, through a combination of historical, geographical and cultural reasons.

   Merchants in my home town Bristol got very rich from the same source in the 18th – first point of the triangular slave trade, but it’s very different from Liverpool. Has a long history of trade with Ireland too yet – perhaps because Wales lies in between – doesn’t have a Celtic character.

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   • Bobby Seal says:

     30/07/2013 at 4:53 pm

     Cheers Matt. I don’t know too much about the historical demography of Bristol but, with Liverpool, it seems the major factor in creating the city’s Celtic character was the massive inward migration from North Wales and Ireland in the nineteenth century.

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