Created by Wrights & Sites, working with the visual artist Tony Weaver (a doubled-sided, folded and packaged A3 map in a limited edition of 3,000).
Commissioned by the East Wing Committee at London's Courtauld Institute for the 2003-2005 Urban Networks East Wing Biennial 06. A Courtauld Mis-Guide incorporated images and provocations that related to four walks through the four gates of Somerset House. It was available to visitors of the Courtauld Institute. It offered a walk to the North, where you might discover a park-keepers house that used to be a morgue; a walk to the East, where you were encouraged to identify shapes in the architecture around you; a walk to the South, where you were invited to curate your own exhibition from the items washed up by the River Thames; and a walk to the West, which took you around the backs of glamorous hotels.
The Urban Networks East Wing Biennial 06 was an exhibition that sought to chart the city as a social and physical experience. It also featured work by Franko B, Mel Bochner, Leigh Bowery, Jeremy Deller, Zoë Irvine, Issac Julien, Michael Landy, Melanie Manchot, Genesis P-Orridge, Martha Rosler and Catherine Yass.
Images: Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, Cathy Turner, Tony Weaver.
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