[ cambridge ] mythogeography

One of the early stages in any project we make involves exploring a location on foot, after a day of tracing routes from the Grafton Centre to Kings College we decided we decided to focus our attention on Burleigh St. and Fitzroy St. as these seem often left out of the tourist guides of Cambridge.
As part of our iterative making process we gave ourselves the ominous task of creating a short performed/guided walk over only a few days. Inspired by the mythogeographic work of Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti we explored both the people and the physical geography of the streets, finding connections and layers between its past and present, between the economies and trades that exist there and simple physical markings, between fact and fiction.
We don’t envision that our final project will be a walk like this, but creating such a performance in these early stages was an interesting risk for us and a way to break out of our normal creative process.

We drew on star maps and spider webs, on gangland territory marking and Mary Poppins, on butchers and embroidery, on shoes and trees . .

Drinking local apple juice, served in Northrops butcher

Looking for the buildings whose design is hidden behind wall climbers

Sarah plays out the last post as we look up to the bandstand on the roof of Clement Joycelene

The manager of Clement Joycelene explains the changes they had to make to the railings

Letters that will continue our journey independently

Let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height . .