Dates: See listing
Times: See listing
Location: No. 8 Manvers Street Cafe (no. 2 on map)
Artists: Various
Curator: Arran Hodgson
Cost / Booking: FREE
Website: www.eightmanvers.co.uk
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The Bath photomarathon was a experiment in an alternative way of navigating the streets of the city, each contestant on 3rd May 2008 had a 24 exp film 11 hours and 24 themes to explore on a geographic wander.

An invite was sent out nationally and locally to attract a diverse group of people some familiar with the city and some not. Providing them with the opportunity to join this one day 'drift' or Dérive which is a French concept meaning an aimless walk through city streets.

"the French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, living in a complex city but treading the same path every day, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way. This led to the notion that most of our cities were so thoroughly unpleasant because they were designed in a way that either ignored their emotional impact on people, or indeed tried to control people through their very design. The basic premise of the idea is for people to explore their environment ("psychogeography") without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence"