Wrights and Sites, 2008, [online]  Accessed from  http://www.mis-guide.com/anywhere.html [17 April 2015]. 

Wrights and Sites is a company, formed in the UK in 1997, of four artistic researchers “whose work focused on peoples’ relationships to places, cities, landscapes and walking” (Wrights and Sites, 2012). The aim of their work is for people to “read into it and connect from it” (Wrights and Sites, 2012).

The element of Wrights and Sites work we investigated for my group’s site specific performance was their A Mis-Guide to Anywhere in which they created a book about a city. The idea was in response to An Exeter Mis-Guide. An Exeter Mis-Guide was a guide book that suggested walks, points of interest and observation using the “practice of mytho-geographic” (Wrights and Sites, 2008). This places the real facts about the location on equal standing with “fictional, fanciful, fragile and personal” (Wrights and Sites, 2008) and hopes to make the place more significant.

A Mis-Guide to Anywhere allowed the users to create their own “exploratory journeys in whatever environment they choose” (Wrights and Sites, 2008). This is the key element that myself, and my group, were keen to unpack and develop for our Mis-Guide work. Unlike some of the other work of Wrights and Sites, for example Stadtverführungen in Wien, where they would take the audience on a physical tour; we hoped to create a guide that meant the reader could choose their own journey. We wanted people to create their own experiences and not just be led around the gallery being told information. The creation of an adventure book, similar to that of those read by children, means that the reader/audience can go on an adventure in the gallery. With a story based on the artwork and choices for where the narrative will lead means that we hope to give the reader/audience a more personal experience of the gallery.

Works Cited:

Wrights and Sites (2012) about [online] Wrights and Sites. Available from http://www.mis-guide.com/ws/about.html [Accessed 17 April 2015].

Wrights and Sites (2008) An Exeter Mis-Guide. [online] Wrights and Sites. Available from http://www.mis-guide.com/ws/archive/exetermg.html [Accessed 17 April 2015].

Wrights and Sites (2008) A Mis-Guide to Anywhere. [online] Wrights and Sites. Available from http://www.mis-guide.com/ws/archive/mganywhere.html [Accessed 17 April 2015].