What is Psychogeographic Art?
The term Psychogeography can have a vast range of meanings and is constantly in flux, being reexamined, altered, and evolved by those who practice it. Broadly speaking, Psychogeography is the effect of a location (usually urban or suburban) on our behavior and emotions. How do these places, spaces and environments we encounter in our everyday lives and routines make us feel?
What is the Artist’s response to place?
Psychogeographic Art can be created from the reaction of how places make us feel. Exploring your city, town, edgelands, or other spaces (specifically through acts of walking) can act as a powerful catalyst for creating art. The School of Psychogeographic Art concentrates on reacting and reimagining the encountered buildings, parks, landmarks, streets, architecture, histories, and other forgotten and marginalized spaces in the City of Vergennes, VT and beyond.
Students will be introduced to a brief history of Psychogeography and experiment with what Psychogeography means to them as we explore the city in our weekly class walks. We will discuss and create art not limited to the creation of imagined maps, architectural models, sculpture from found materials, printmaking, poster design, papermaking, drawing, painting and documentation through sketching, note-taking and writing.