Série dérive
Performance
2009-present


Série dérive (drift series) is an ongoing performative and experiential mapping of psychogeography. The photographs, paintings, video, and field notes presented here function as traces of these site-responsive actions.

The project draws on Guy Debord’s 1955 text Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography, which defines psychogeography as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment… has on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” The dérive, or drift, operates here as both method and framework—an embodied process of moving through space guided by terrain, chance, and encounter.

While Debord’s dérives were rooted in 1960s Paris, série dérive expands this methodology across diverse geographies. Over the past fifteen-plus years, I have worked across metropolitan and rural environments, following the attractions of the terrain and the encounters found there.

These movements have led to remote and extreme landscapes, as well as overlooked, built environments, such as suburbs, strip malls, sleepy planned developments. By engaging these sites through performance and documentation, Série dérive examines how place conditions perception, memory, and behavior.