about town: download the cat 2000

article in cartography, the city, published by catalyst arts
distributed throughout belfast

Download the Cat 12 / 9 / 00
The cat disappeared for 2 weeks around Holloween, spooked by fireworks and bangers. The day before his return there was one reported siting of him by Dusty. He was perched on a roof on the New Lodge Rd., no doubt checking out his bearings of North Belfast.

When he arrived back mewling at the bathroom window he was a leaner sharper creature. Mike wondered what we would see if only we could plug him in and download the last two weeks navigation.

'About Town' consists of a series of incidental stories from around Belfast gathered over the period of two months. These stories are used to attempt to map the city in a verenacular personalised way.

Belfast is a city frequently represented in the printed media but the representations of the city in newspapers are often restricted to familiar cliches of an unlivable place. This article takes the form of a map, acknoweledging it as an editorial document where select information is included or left out according to the maps function.