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Quotes - Exeter Misguide
Location: Devon
December/January issue of Exeter Flying Post
"...this is an inspired publication... An Exeter Mis-Guide provides an alternative view or, in fact, many alternative views of the city. No elected authority would have the nerve (or good sense) to produce such a publication, which reveals the particularities of our environment... The Mis-Guide invites you to plan a walk in the city, at a different pace from usual, taking a different route, or taking a different theme. Either way, giving one's senses a chance to interact in a novel way, or go off on a flight of fancy... an effective piece of community art... this is a great companion for anyone in Exeter..."
liveartmagazine, November 2003
“With the book tucked in pocket I felt entitled even licensed to poke around where it is normally discouraged even forbidden to enter... The pitch of this book is ambitious as it obviously aims to reach beyond dedicated urban explorers... I found this an imaginative and very open invitation...”
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“My experience of walking through this quite unfamiliar city using this book as my prompt was a pleasurable though not unknown one. Mis-Guide is understated and leaves a lot of space for the reader and this reticence made it next to impossible to circumscribe the work. I fancy that this guide was written principally for those who already knew the city, yet as an introduction to Exeter I could not have wished for a better, or in reality, more representative one. So, I created sculptures with rotten apples, wandered into a swimming pool and observed teenagers, ate good blackberries and finally mused on the preponderance of the vowel E in the city’s name, a Perecian observation of old (The Exeter Text: Secrets, Jewels, Sex). The city was, through the frame of this book, the raw material for these walking and observational exercises. With the book tucked in pocket I felt entitled even licensed to poke around where it is normally discouraged even forbidden to enter. Exeter proved far more rewarding a place to drift through than on first appearance……Overall, I found this an imaginative and very open invitation, one that required effort and not too precious a response. If I return to Exeter, I would be happy to open Mis-Guide at random once again.”
Anthea Nakorn (project participant) on being involved with Exeter Misguide
"I think what I have enjoyed is that one gets to look in new ways at familiar places, places which one takes for granted. How often do we walk down the street where we live, walking the same route time and time again, too preoccupied with thoughts of destination, work, families, shopping, the state of the world, to notice what is around us? We think we know where we live, but do we? Nothing is quite what it seems: if we really look and listen and feel, even the ordinary becomes extraordinary."
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