Christopher Collier is a PhD candidate at University of Essex. He is researching on the built environment as an exteriorised form of memory and how artistic actions within and upon this environment might constitute a political intervention upon possibilities for subject formation. Self-consciously opting to describe such a process using the somewhat contested historical term ‘psychogeography’, Chris aims to reconstruct a historical ‘psychogeographical’ tradition from a critical perspective. He is also interested in how this conceptual framework concerning art, the built environment and subjectivation offers a means to understand the practices of contemporary artists. Chris is involved in various collectives, has written for a number of publications and also produces occasional artworks.
