Bloomsday 2008 : 1000 Joyce Walks

UPDATE Bloomsday was a great success with walks taking place in 39 cities worldwide. If you took part please don't for get to document your walk. Click the 'HELP' tab to find out how to do this. If you are having any trouble doing it please contact me at conor[AT]stunned[DOT]org and I'll do my best to sort out your problem. I would also to thank everyone who took part and made it such a success. I would hope to credit everyone who took part as collaborators in the documentation of the work if this is of interest to you please email me at conor[AT]stunned[DOT]org and tell me who you are, where you walked (and the link to your walk if you have it), a little about yourself and a url if you have a site. This is of course entirely optional but I do hope to give credit where credit is due
Conor McGarrigle June 2008

1000 Joyce Walks is an international participatory art project which will stage 1000 walks, re-enacting scenes from Ulysses, in cities throughout the world to celebrate Bloomsday 2008. Participants will use the Joyce Walks website to remap routes from Ulysses to their chosen city in the world, create a map which will guide them on their walk, document their walk and use the mashup generator to create a record of their walk which will be saved in a searchable database with each mashup being embeddable.

The project is not only a celebration of Bloomsday, facilitating users to re-enact scenes from Ulysses in the tradition of Bloomsday in Dublin (differing in the crucial aspect that these walks can take place in any city in the world and are not limited to the streets of Dublin), but also acts as a tool - based on the Situationist Dérive- to navigate urban space in a new and unexpected way, creating a day of psychogeographical exploration with 1000 interventions in 24 hours across the globe. Joyce Walks seeks to reframe the everyday act of walking in familiar streets by overlaying a virtual layer of meaning onto real space enabling the user to create temporary location based interventions and temporary social spaces which tactically insert themselves into the urban environment allowing users to inscribe a new set of meanings onto the very fabric of the city. While each walk, being contingent on a unique set of social and spatial conditions, is unique to it's creator or creators it also forms part of a continuum with each walk generated, performed and documented creating a single collaborative artwork.

Click here to view a small gallery of Joyce Walks.

Call for Participation

We are now interested in expressions of interest to participate in the 1000 Joyce Walks event. At this stage participation is simple we are looking for people to commit to planning a walk for their city for June 16th 2008. this can be done by following the create a walk link from this page and use the calender to select June 16th as the walk's date or fill in the form below.