New Year Dérive

"The revolutionary transformation of the world, of all aspects of the world, will confirm all the dreams of abundance."

-Guy Debord, 1955

Guy Debord - The Naked City

last night i played games till 2, then danced till 4...awesome. this morning i went to a coffeeshop. i was reading through chapter 2, "Language as Material", from Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing, when i came across an idea [below] that can solve a project/assignment problem that i will encounter in the coming spring semester of Intro to Drawing: we can't do our outdoor (city) dérives when it is cold.

Moved indoors, branding has its own psychogeographic typography. [Matt Siber's] Untitled #3 shows a drug store display, scrubbed of its texts. Here packaging, with a slant toward natural beauty, sets the structure and tone of the work.

 Matt Siber - Untitled #3, 2002

 from this, the plan is to get a college van and bring my drawing class to the Louis Joliet Mall to execute our dérives. during prior in-class dérives in downtown Joliet the students have document "the appealing or repelling character of certain places." [or things] (Debord, from The Introduction of a Critique of Urban Geography) in text. this text then takes final form in another Situationist International form, graffiti. the final collaborative piece resembles concrete (pardon the pun) poetry and Siber's text erasure pieces.

documentation of the Fall 2011 Introduction to Drawing dérive graffiti

the final piece(s) of the mall dérive will probably not be graffiti, but a discussion around each or our lists/poems/maps. to test this out i went to CVS and did an in-store dérive. below are the results.

Essance
High Life
19.9
HEAT
AZO
VSFlu
ets. 1837
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Ο
WOW!
5
grey felt squares
orange crush
sun drop
Congclados
b    2x
"I can see so clearly"
rum
Beauty
Implements
93930G790957
09/09/10
red $5
poofs
blackhawks
wisk
bounce
gain
purey
boost
fantastik
horizontal teal stripes
bones
bolts
car cigarette lighter light-up angel
nut
only
sweet peas
fire
AMEREX
AtoZ
blood pressure test 
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say it with flowers
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