The concept of psycho-geography and anti-facsist resistance emerged during World War II in the psychiatric clinic of St. Alban in France and influenced the theoretical concepts of Felix Guattari on media activism and subjectivity. Forces of de- and reterritorialisation are forming our relation to a place, to our itineration and subjectivity.

This workshop discusses philosophical ideas on video technology, video art, migrant memotechnics, escape routes and relates them to the concept of geo-psychiatry. The practise-led production includes the tracking and recording of escape routes passing through the urban neighborhood from different psychological view points that could be identified with different regimes of citizenship / perception (for example in the figure of an illegal migrant or migrant worker). These passages can reveal the prorosity and limits of top/down planning in urban space, show the percept and the logic of detail in migration movements and the instable surfaces of publicness.

The montage of the material, the conceptualization of the interface for a web and DVD follows a common discussion on non linear logics of montage and on the regime of perception that operates during escape. Can a nomadological cartography translate contemporain conditions of migration? Specific joints/links whould be elaborated that can render imaginary space as a sequence or scheme in that itinery/connectivity/invisibility folds into a surface, a cartography that Felix Guattaris would call a schizocartography.

For preparing the workshop students should form three groups and choose their escape route previously. A small reader will be posted. Please bring you ideas and imagination and technical skills.