Landscaping: Artists, Maps and Britain – British Library Conference Centre

11th September 2010

14:30 – Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair: Swandown – Ordnance and Surveying
“Swandown will be a travelogue and odyssey. A poetic film-diary about landscape and
Culture, undertaken on board a plastic swan-shaped pedalo. In the summer of 2011, multi-talented, multi-platform artist and film-maker Kötting (Gallivant, Ivul) will pedal from Swan Lake in Hastings to the Angel Islington in London. The journey will take over a month; an unbroken 200 miles, into the English Channel and the very heart of London via Olympic Territory. In preparation, he will produce a map with the great writer on place Iain Sinclair, which plots the proposed route that the Swan might take through a series of walks. This map, designed by Julien Lesage, will be presented today in its first London showing.”

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