Illustrated talk to Leeds Psychogeography Group, 25 October, 5.15pm. Baines Wing Miall Lecture Theatre 2.34, University of Leeds Admission free
Illustrated by video material from my exhibition Walking Out which drew on landscape paintings in Huddersfield Art Gallery, I consider the challenge posed by surviving Romantic archetypes like The Wanderer, the Ancient Monument and the Picturesque Scene. 2 films of beauty spots in the north of England show visitors sharing an absorption in views which seems to bely mere ‘Heritage’ status, whilst a third film documents the progress of an habitual roadside walker through the urban fringe, exhibiting all the traits of the Wordsworthian outsider at home in a sea of traffic.
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