One Lap Is the Whole Store

Lecture 6 — SLOP2236

Reaching any one of them costs you the whole floor.

The fresh wall

  • dairy, produce, bakery, meat: sit at the building’s edge in nearly every store you’ve entered
  • reaching any single one costs a lap of the whole floor
  • week two’s route argument, scaled to the size of the building

One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive, a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances.

— Guy Debord, Theory of the Dérive

The dérive report, set

  • due after this week — one real or invented store, one drift, one report
  • at least three of weeks one to six’s mechanisms, named and located
  • read the brief before next session

Before next week

  • recall the last store you were in
  • draw its outer wall from memory before you draw anything else
  • bring the drawing, and be ready to trace it aloud