Written by Sukhdev Sandhu
Visual Design by Mind Unit
Sound Design by Scanner
Commissioned by Artangel
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
Visual Design by Mind Unit
Sound Design by Scanner
Commissioned by Artangel
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
‘With the vocabulary of objects and well-known words, they [urban narratives] create another dimension, in turn fantastical and delinquent, fearful and legitimating. For this reason, they render the city ‘believable,’ affect it with unknown depths to be inventoried, and open it up to journeys. They are the keys to the city; they give access to what it is: mythical’[1]
– Michel de Certeau
– Michel de Certeau
A living, breathing city is more than tangles of streets and alleys, traffic flows and jams, hidden histories and larger-than-life personalities. Some cities, as they grow and continue to grow, as people think them and write them, become more than collections of lives – they become characters in their own right. It’s as if the millions of words that have been written on the city streets have spilled into the gutters and now course like black blood through pipes and sewers, under streets and behind wallpaper.