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Cosio D’Arroscio.

Birthplace of the Situationist International movement in 1957. Breeding ground of the Transformatorio Art Lab in 2021.

Inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography, Wish You Were Here was created to give presence to the personal and emotional landmarks of Cosio D’Arroscia – using postcards, plaques and pins to literally and figureatively put these places of meaning on the map.

In a world saturated with images, where we have too often seen every sight before we have been there, Wish You Were Here eschews all pictures in favour of the power of words – bringing a grandiose presence to less publically celebrated places, and inviting people to revisualise, reimagine and reinterpret the urban and rural landscape around them.

In keeping with the lexical thematic, Wish You Were Here maps each place of meaning using What3Words – a word-based geolocator that gives every 3mx3n square in the world a unique three-word address

Created by Vanessa Inggs in collaboration with the people of Cosio d’Arroscia, as part of Trasformatorio 2021.

Website coding by Michael Potts

With special thanks to Dierck Roosen, Laen Sanches and Simon Southwood for scenographic, graphic, and psychogeographic support.