‘The Guide to Getting Lost’ is an MP3 audio walk that invites you to explore (Insert the name of your home town here!) through the sonic & geographic landscape of another place. Choose where you listen to; East London, a Moroccan Souk, Indian festival, Copenhagen high street, Drake Circus shopping centre….In turn you will become lost in (Insert the name of your home town here!), giving yourself up to walking the routes and pathways I have taken in another place, stepping into a sound world which narrates another landscape.

Length of walks are approx. 30min

When I began developing this project I had been thinking for sometime about how to become lost in a familiar place, how that experience could create 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 day to day life, to find something new in the ordinary.

I was invited to make a piece of work for an exchange project with Copenhagen, (www.suitcase.com). I started off by recording a walk in an unfamiliar city, narrating the directions I choose as I navigated this unknown place, describing what I saw as my journeyed unfolded. A kind of direct reportage on what I was seeing as it in front of me in real time.
Viewers were then invited to take this walk, following my directions in a foreign landscape, allowing themselves to get lost and letting the acoustics of each place bleed into one another, familiar sounds from ones own locality mix with the sounds of an unknown foreign sounding place.

I have recorded Guides To Getting Lost In India, Marrakesh, Copenhagen, London and Cardiff and continue to develop the archive whenever I travel abroad.

The project has be shown as part of the Suitcase Project, Showroom, The Whitstable Beinnale and will be at Public//Domain in Bournemouth later in July.

You can buy a Guide To Getting Lost Cd containning all the walks for £20. Contact me through this site.

Take part in the next Guide To Getting Lost Event 'Public //Domain ' In the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth. July 16th. Project curated and Produced by SCAN

Project © Jennie Savage 2007/8/9/10