Stuart Butler
Poet, Performer, Writer, Walker, Teacher & Historian
Email: stfc12@hotmail.com
Angela Findlay
Artist, writer, public speaker and only living resident of Stroud Cemetery. Interested in remembering what history forgot.
Bob Fry
Rural and urban flâneur. Psychogeographer & photographer.
Jon Seagrave aka Jonny Fluffypunk
Who are we and what do we do and how can you contact us?
We run Radical Stroud as a collective, with walks on the third Friday of each month. We encourage contributions and responses to the landscape in a variety of forms – although we do have some form of guiding principles. Such as:
Guiding Principles:
Thoughts derived from a reading of
Creating Memorials Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic
(Alan Price Liverpool University Press 2012)
Doors of No Return
Historic, documented, liminal places,
Not gone with the wind, but both visible and invisible,
Spaces and places in the Stroudwater hills and valleys
With messages and mementoes from a riotous past,
Open doors to the truth –
A counter-narrative:
“A performative counter-narrative … a ‘guerrilla memory’”,
“Lieux de memoire, sites of history, torn away from the moment of history”
(Pierre Nora),
Memorialisation that moves beyond the empirical,
The documented, the evidenced and the historical,
To a counter-heritage, a counter-memorialisation…
For further reinterpretations,
And re-imaginings,
As we move art and monument
From object to process,
And from ‘noun to verb’,
As we create new museums of the past, present and future,
As we traverse the hedgerows of Psychogeography …
Or in a nutshell:
Performative Walking: Counter-Heritage
Beyond the Empirical:
Beyond the Documented:
Guerrilla Memorialisation.
My name is Stuart Butler: ‘Poet, Performer, Writer, Walker, Teacher & Historian’.
Email: stfc12@hotmail.com
www.facebook.com/stuart.butler.3511
www.twitter.com/StuartB18260154
Contributions for considered publication should be sent to stfc12@hotmail.com
Deborah Roberts
Photographer, designer and curator.
Andrew Budd
Shrodinger’s Explorer, knowing exactly where he is, but simultaneously lost. His main source of exercise being jumping to conclusions.
Robin Treefellow
Poet, ambling antiquarian, writer, jam maker and explorer of England’s Anglo Saxon, Roman, Prehistoric and medieval past. He invokes the names of pagan deities to help his vegetables grow.