I was invited to make a piece of work for an exchange project with Copenhagen, (www.suitcase.com) and had been thinking for sometime about ideas of how to get lost in a familiar place, how that experience creates a disruption allowing one to renegotiate the familiar. The Guide to Getting Lost came out of this feeling of wanting to be able to get lost in my own familiar, day to day life. To find something new in the ordinary.

The project currently exits as two sound recordings, one of a walk I made in Cardiff and one made in Copenhagen. The audio invites participants/ viewers to follow the directions I narrate and to get lost in the geography of a familiar place.

The acoustics of each place bleed into one another, familiar sounds from ones own locality mix with the sounds of a foreign and less know city.

This first set in the series is embryonic and I need to go back and work through tactics, however these will be the first in a series of future down- loadable Guides To Getting Lost. In January I plan to spend sometime in Delhi and record the next part in the series.

Project © Jennie Savage 2007