Drift World Map

Abstract

In keeping with Situationist cartography, this artist pages contribution ‘Drift Map World’ represents a moment in the journal that attempts to tie together the disparate themes, practices and ideas that run through the issue as a whole. As well as mapping the intellectual drifts taken by the writers and artists who are part of ‘On Drifting’, this ‘map’ is best approached as a kind of drift in itself, a moment of intellectual errancy, a critical and creative dérive. It is a document that, on the one hand, moves through and borrows ideas, fragments and words from other articles in the issue, and, on the other, combines these with visuals taken from personal journals and sketchbooks of previous wanderings and creative processes. By navigating through a sea of words and visuals, and balancing past and present, this text and image piece exists as a sort of meta-map, a chart that pays attention to similarities whilst also stressing differences, an ambition which explains the lack of commas in the title. The gaps in the sentence are little voids that allow ideas to encounter each other in a relationship of departure.