Friday Lates: The Art of Getting Lost - a beginners guide to Psychogeography

When a handful of young artists, runaways and revolutionaries began drunkenly wandering the streets of Paris, guided only by the emotional effects of the terrain, they gave their activity a suitably grand-sounding name: ‘psychogeography’ was born!
Following in the lost steps of their Surrealist forebears, and the 19th Century drifts of the Parisian Flâneurs, the avant-garde Situationist group created psychogeography as a means to transform everyday life. They wanted to free art from the confines of the gallery and marketplace, turning the city itself into a vast arena for play and adventure.
Take a tour through the history of this intriguing and occasionally mysterious activity, from its Surrealist roots, through the work of the Situationists and their successors, right up to the urban drifters updating these experiments today.