A Dundalk Dérive

“What I like about this way of engaging your surroundings is the playfulness. There are no strict academic guidelines and there's no need to write about your wanders at all, but ideas from psychogeography can make your Corona exercise more entertaining. As Robert MacFarlane writes in 'Psychogeography: A Beginner’s Guide': 'Unfold a street map... place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw round its edge. Pick up the map, go out in the city, and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experience as you go, in whatever medium you favour.' It seems the government has drawn that circle for us already. “

From a short piece on psychogeography in lockdown I wrote for The Argus, commissioned by the An Táin Arts Centre. Read it in full here.