Exhibition
Eight Nights: Poetry Pub Crawl - street installation
22 Feb 2025
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 18:00 – 23:30
Free admission
Address
- 55 Nigel Road
- SE15 4NP
- London
England - SE15 4NP
- United Kingdom
Join the launch of Eight Nights, a physical poetry collection installed on public streets. Each poem narrates a specific night in SE London, each taking place in a different pub.
The collection launches as a pub crawl with live readings of the work. There is no cost.
About
Inspired by les flâneurs, Eight Nights is a collection of aimless observations. The work recounts eight separate nights in South East London. Each piece situates the ambivalent individual into a phantasmagoria of modern quality. Narrating encounters, apocalypses, and incompleteness, the pieces speak out with the same disorder as memory.
The collection aimed to retake Debord’s psycho-geography, which emphasises emotional responses and connection through the formation of arbitrary routes in the city. The practice of psycho-geography is to walk without aim. In this view, wandering provides a rethinking of space, histories, and margins (both physical and imagined) within the city.
An exercise in poetic entropy, Eight Nights makes use of the city and approaches it with the intention of re-appropriating its structure. This project includes eight poems placed outside the eight different pubs that inspired them across SE London. The audience is invited to physically engage with the poetry and its identity in space.
