^ Lucas Priest, SoPC Facilitator
The School of Pedestrian Culture is a pseudo-institution for the ‘play testing’ of psychogeograpic games aimed at disorienting how we encounter space and place across the Scotland’s central belt. With a particular focus on exploring, encountering and drifting through sites of change, community resilience and capitalist expansion. The School emerged from a lacking sense of a collective pedagogy at the Edinburgh Collage of Art following the COVID-19 Pandemic. Originally existing as the 'Diversionists' the group later become know as the School of Pedestrian Culture, a fictional department at ECA subverting the University of Edinburgh's emphasis on individual academic achievement that increasingly plagued ECA and its culture after the Pandemic.
Now existing as part of a loosely associated collection of artists and researchers in the UK interested in a psychogeography outside of London (Incursions, Concreate Bodach, Loiterers Resistance Movement amongst others!) the School of Pedestrian Culture offers a nomadic environment for the collective exploration and interconnection of ideas, practices, and research within contemporary Scottish urbanism. We embody the Art Casual, casualising the relationship between artist and audience as to begin developing exchanges and dialogues that lead to unexpected outcomes. Part walking forum, part art collective, part art school, the SoPC interweaves walking and talking with local politics, community resilience, friendships and art!
If you would like the SoPC to come and visit your School/Collage/University/Group or City then please get in touch!
The SoPC is currently facilitated by Lucas Priest and based in Leith, Scotland. Lucas graduated from BA Intermedia Art at The Edinburgh Collage of Art in 2022 and now works at EMBASSY Gallery
// lucasfpriest'at'gmail.com // @lucas.priest
Lucas' Artist CV is available upon request.
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