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Mis-Guides are
like no other guides you have ever used before. Rather than telling
you where to go and what to see, a Mis-Guide gives
you the ways to see your city or environment that no one else has found
yet. A Mis-Guide is
both a forged passport to your 'other' city and a new way of travelling
a very familiar one. An essential part of the toolkit of any 21st Century
survivor.
A Mis-Guide often
takes the form of a guide book or a map. It suggests a series of
walks and points
of observation and contemplation within a particular
town, city or landscape. Unlike an ordinary guide book, it is guided
by the practice of mytho-geography, which places the fictional, fanciful,
fragile
and personal on equal terms with 'factual', municipal history. Author
and walker become partners in ascribing significance to place. These
types of Mis-Guides are produced by Exeter-based,
site-specific artists Wrights & Sites,
working with visual artist Tony Weaver.
Wrights & Sites also
regularly create and lead Mis-Guided Tours for
specific contexts.
The core members of Wrights & Sites
(Stephen
Hodge, Simon
Persighetti, Phil
Smith and Cathy
Turner) explore
and celebrate site in many forms
(domestic, landscape, public and forbidden) through site-specific
performance, 'drifts', mythogeographic mapping, Mis-Guided
Tours and published Mis-Guides.
Wrights & Sites
was formed in 1997.
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