UA

(Underground Archeology)

Cela fait déjà quelques temps que l'interview de Michael Cook est paru sur BLDBLG mais je l'ai trouvé assez fascinante pour vous la faire partager.

"The built environment of the city has always been incomplete, by omission and necessity, and will remain so. Despite the visions of futurists, the work of our planners and cement-layers thankfully remains a fractured and discontinuous whole, an urban field riven with internal margins, pockmarked by decay, underlaid with secret waterways. Stepping outside our prearranged traffic patterns and established destinations, we find a city laced with liminality, with borderlands cutting across its heart and reaching into its sky. We find a thousand vanishing points, each unique, each alive, each pregnant with riches and wonders and time.

This is a website about exploring some of those spaces, about immersing oneself in stormwater sewers and utility tunnels and abandoned industry, about tapping into the worlds that are embedded in our urban environment yet are decidedly removed from the collective experience of civilized life. This is a website about spaces that exist at the boundaries of modern control, as concessions to the landscape, as the debris left by economic transition, as evidence of the transient nature of our place upon this earth."

Pour découvrir plus sur les explorations de ce canadien: The Vanishing point



Cela m'a fait repenser aux explorations plus parisiennes de Zone Tour,
et aussi à l'extraordinaire histoire du groupe UNTHERGUNTHER qui a restauré clandestinement l'horloge du Panthéon durant près d'un an..Derrière ces 2 groupes se cache entre autre, Lazar Kunstmann, aussi fondateur de "la mexicaine des perforations" qui a tenu pendant plusieurs années un cinéma clandestin en dessous du Palais de Chaillot. Il est l'auteur de l'intéressant ouvrage la Culture en clandestins et réalisateur de ce documentaire sur l'exploration urbaine parisienne que je vous conseille de prendre le temps de découvrir.