Thank you for following Uncanny Landscapes. Here’s a new episode of the podcast; an interview with psychogeographer Morag Rose. Thank you to our paid subscribers for your support, and to our regular listeners for making this so worthwhile.
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Links:
The Feminist Art of Walking on Pluto Press
The Loiterer’s Resistance Movement
Morag Rose on Instagram
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Morag Rose is a psychogeographer, an anarcho-feminist artist and writer and a lecturer in Geography at The University of Liverpool. She is the founder of the Manchester psychogeographic collective, The Loiterer’s Resistance Movement. And her latest book is The Feminist Art of Walking, a personal look at the past decade-or-so of walking art and psychogeography and the changes it has brought to the field as well as to herself.
Psychogeography, new nature writing and walking art have often been about streamlined and homogenous bodies - white, male, able, often middle-class - traversing the landscape. As Morag Rose says of herself, being a ‘crip woman who grew up on an estate’ meant not seeing bodies like hers represented in the canon. In recent years, however, that’s been changing. In this new book, Rose looks at many of the artists involved in that transformation, as well as her own life and work - with and without the LRM.
We’ll talk about psychogeography - its history and future - and about walking art, health, and the great city of Manchester.
This episode is part of what’s turned into an arc about public space in Britain - keep listening for more writers and artists taking a look at the thorny question of who is ‘allowed’ where, and how that situation came to be.
