Walking: Art-act and Artefact
We finished the previous chapter thus: Macfarlane argues that Thomas prefigures the Situationists, ‘Pioneering the walk as an art-act, as artefact.’ Well, that sort of sounds like walking as a pop-up museum in a way, doesn’t it? I asked my sister, Fliss, and...
Railway Navvies and I.K. Brunel
Everyone knows the name: Isambard Kingdom Brunel! And everyone knows that photograph: The top hat, the waistcoat, the cigar, The chain-link in the background for emphasis; The self-assured pride of the Victorian engineer, The man of the moment and momentum, Proud of...
Walking and Cycling and Pop-up Museums
To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an Hour. As mentioned in the previous chapter, Blake’s lines have become something of a Radical Stroud motif for a number of reasons. But this is...
A People’s History Chapter Ten
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Ten Riots remembered: Hello Stuart Good to see you on Wednesday. I promised to send you something about the wonderfully named ‘ Mid-Gloucestershire Historical Pageant...
Walking a Pop-up Museum
I’ve been giving a question some thought: Can a walk (be it themed and purposeful or just ad hoc recreational) not only create a pop-up museum, in consequence, when back at home (individually and/or collectively), but also create a mobile pop-up museum itself whilst...
Pop-up Museums Musing
Radical Stroud and Pop-up Museums I suppose we ought to start this piece with our own working-definition of a Pop-up Museum: ‘a temporary exhibition carefully curated, but with changing displays created by visitors with a widening circle of participants: a sort of...