Colour video with sound 7:45 and book with translucent inlays 22p.
52° 36′ 9.1″ N, 1° 25′ 19.5″ W is a video and pamphlet documenting a site-specific performance. The project configures a feminist psychogeography through a combination of lyric, pastoral, and documentary poetry alongside pressed flowers, photographs, video, and field recordings. The lyric “I” speaks as a flâneuse (female flâneur – urban wanderer) re-positioned at the rural site of a sexual assault. The site of the unnamed, unlisted, and unmarked aqueduct acts as an embodiment of the traumatic event and its memory. Details of local history, geography, and architecture facilitate associations and disassociations between fragments of narrative.
Poetry reading performed with Emma Conway and Max Richmond at the Play! Festival, Fire Station Arts Centre, Windsor, 2012.
Hazel McMichael 