about town: bad directions and a whistle stop tour 2000

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

Bad Directions and a Whistle Stop Tour 9 / 9 / 00
Richard got a whistle stop tour of the city centre last week as we were continually sent on wild goose chases around town. We were just looking for a machine that allowed you to make up and print your own web address cards. We didn't find one but Richard now has a reasonable knowledge of the city centre.

'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.