Mis-Guided!
Our friends and heroes Wrights & Sites are at it again!
This time you can take part in one of 4 Mis-Guided Tours departing from London’s ICA on Saturday 8 April, 2006.
Wrights & Sites and Tony Weaver mark the launch of their new book, A Mis-Guide to Anywhere, by leading four walking tours within the environs of the ICA. A utopian project for the recasting of a bitter world by disrupted walking, A Mis-Guide to Anywhere is a travel document for your destinationless journeys. Unlike ordinary guided tours, these walks will be disrupted by the practice of mytho-geography, which places the fictional, fanciful, fragile and personal on equal terms with ‘factual’, municipal history. Each 90 minute walk can accommodate ten people, and will start and finish in the foyer of the ICA.
12.30pm - The Problem of Shopping
Rearrange the dreams on sale by reading stories in window displays, sight-seeing shop assistants, shopping for a fictional ‘you’ or exploring shopping nostalgia.12.45pm - Out of Place
A walk of coincidences, derived from overlaying a map of Paris onto London. What’s where the Eiffel Tower should be? Where can we stop for un Ricard?1pm - Scales
In a park or open city space: walk the dimensions of a paving stone; walk the dimensions of your home; walk the dimensions of your body.1.15pm - Masses
A drift in search of spaces where the trivial becomes monumental and the monumental becomes cake decoration. A chance to give homage to the trinkets and fondle butchers in bronze.Book in advance at the ICA box office