FA49h
The Experimental
Cartographer’s Instructions for Mapping
Public Transportation
*Questions 7, 8are taken from The Vertical
Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil
Please
answer these questions openly, with poetic license and your imagination.
1.Carry with you a piece of
food to offer to a fellow passenger or the driver of the vehicle. Note down
your question of offering and the response you observe.
2.Observe transformations in
fellow passengers; who is turning into what? What is turning into whom?
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3.Notice the rhythm of the
vehicle, how would you make a drawing of it here?
4.Write down what you see
through the window. If in open-air write down what you can see around the
vehicle.
5.If you were the protagonist
of a narrative romance what would you write to your lover? Write three lines
here.
6.What would you like to ask
the driver/captain?
7. What is the shape of your
body?*
8.What happened to your
mother?*
9.What do you have in your
pocket, what could you build with it that could be useful to one of the fellow
passengers around you? How? Write a paragraph of eight to ten lines:
11.Pick one of the
neighborhoods you are travelling through, write down the name and upon your
safe arrival in front of a computer with an internet connection conduct a
research on the area. Write down the geographical, historical, etymological,
anecdotal details that interested you.
10. What advice would you
give to the traveller who will continue on from where you left off?
11.Copy down a piece of found
text here:
12.Turn on your recording
device for 20 seconds in the beginning, the middle and the end of your journey.
(Arrange to borrow one if you do not own one yourself)
13. Take a deep breath, what
do you smell?
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