The deep mapping of Pennine Street: a cartographic fiction

TY - JOUR

T1 - The deep mapping of Pennine Street: a cartographic fiction

AU - Reddleman, Claire

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Abstract: Pennine Street is a cartographic art experiment, twinning High Street 2012 in London with the Pennine Way, a long-distance footpath running between the Peak District and the Scottish Borders. Pennine Street was initially prompted by the London 2012 Olympic spectacle; more specifically, by the militarization of the Games through the proposed deployment of surface-to-air missiles at sites in London. The project initially took the form of three organized walks along the route of High Street 2012, from Aldgate to Stratford. Readings were made while walking on each occasion, and both photographic and textual collages emerged out of the initial walks. The project engages the idea of trespass as a political action, as both potent and futile, and traces the development of modes of photographic and textual “trespass”, or transgression. Textual collage isemployed to investigate the possibility of articulating Pennine Street as a “space-between” the empirical and the imagined.Keywords: deep mapping; cartography; cartographic art; trespass; collage; quotation; textual collage

AB - Abstract: Pennine Street is a cartographic art experiment, twinning High Street 2012 in London with the Pennine Way, a long-distance footpath running between the Peak District and the Scottish Borders. Pennine Street was initially prompted by the London 2012 Olympic spectacle; more specifically, by the militarization of the Games through the proposed deployment of surface-to-air missiles at sites in London. The project initially took the form of three organized walks along the route of High Street 2012, from Aldgate to Stratford. Readings were made while walking on each occasion, and both photographic and textual collages emerged out of the initial walks. The project engages the idea of trespass as a political action, as both potent and futile, and traces the development of modes of photographic and textual “trespass”, or transgression. Textual collage isemployed to investigate the possibility of articulating Pennine Street as a “space-between” the empirical and the imagined.Keywords: deep mapping; cartography; cartographic art; trespass; collage; quotation; textual collage

KW - deep mapping

KW - cartography

KW - cartographic art

KW - trespass

KW - collage

KW - quotation

KW - textual collage

M3 - Article

SP - 760

EP - 774

JO - Humanities

JF - Humanities

ER -