THE ART OF GETTING LOST
The Art of Getting Lost is an unguided tour for wanderers.
Audience responses to the question ‘what is your art of getting lost?’ posed at the end of the experience:
“Finding the beautifully unexpected – thank you.”
“Willingness to change course and follow my heart.”
“Breaking the rules.”
“Having fun along the way.”
“Losing time and space.”
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)
The Art of Getting Lost is an interactive experience by Story Juice that invites audiences to lose themselves and see what they discover.A hand-drawn map marks seven locations in the city of Plymouth where you can listen to audio letters and make land art, building on the traces of those who came before. The final stop is marked with a key, but you can start wherever you like and visit locations in any order and timescale. There’s no one route, following your own path is part of the experience. 
“All those here, perform the city every day, expanding and contracting its limits with the opening and closing of doors.”
AOGL script extract © Hannah Wood
Listen to the audio letters.
If you’re in Plymouth, this map marks locations where audio letters are set so you can hear them in context.“Sometimes being lost is to avoid returning, is the process of turning into something else.”
AOGL script extract © Hannah Wood
The experience was launched as part of the Plymouth Art Weekender, an ambitious three-day event celebrating visual art across the city and featuring more than 100 artists including Grayson Perry, Mary Kelly, Gerhard Richter, Ivan Chermayeff, Gillian Wearing, Tim Etchells and Richard Woods. A digital version has been archived on Google Maps below.
“I used my hands to fashion them into decorations, geometric and asymmetric objects that I imagined to be the structure of dreams.”
AOGL script extract © Hannah Wood
Audience members share their experiences at facebook.com/theartofgettinglost
The Art Of Getting Lost is an artist-led project.
Devised, written and voiced by Hannah Wood.
Art and design by Alan Qualtrough.
Sound design by Belinda Dixon and Jo Loosemore.
Music ‘Before The Second Dawn’ by Richard Lacy, David Bird, Terry Maskill and Richard Kimmings.
“I’d try not to focus on anything in particular and let each sense loose me from a need to know.”
