spatial drift
a digital travel diary
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Wandering around according to Guy Debord is a method of non-directed experience - of the „headless“, one could say. Headless, however, only in the sense that there is no
predetermined structure, no goal that must be fulfilled, which often allows one to overlook the little things along the way while quickly taking the shortest path.
Debord defines the Dérive as „a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances.“
It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations
and „let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there“.
Wandering around also means having time and leisure to surrender to the things that come. Whatever comes. This work is based on a digital journey, which in no way contradicts the idea, but rather increases the possibilities for wandering and drifting many times over, and thereby also makes rapid progress considerably more difficult.
A goal idea, however, is expressly thrown overboard and we stroll from personality to museum, to work, to mentor, to city, to movement, and on and on until we get tired.
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For example, the journey begins with the desire to learn something more about the movement of constructivism, while searching for information, a reference to the Museum
of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, which provides an exhibition on the avant-garde of the early 20th century, emerges. A journey begins.
Research work and zine as part of the Master's programme in Exhibition Design at the HSD Düsseldorf.