'if the route:' the great learning of london

A collaboration between artist Beatrice Gibson and musician Jamie McCarthy, ‘If the Route:’ The Great Learning of London is a live performance and radio work in seven parts based on The Knowledge (the infamous London cabbie navigation system and mnemonic device students must master in order to become licensed cabbies)   .

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Miwon Kwon, 'Genealogy of Site Specifity' One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press, 2004.

Site specifity used to imply something grounded, bound to the laws of physics. Often playing with gravity, site specific works used to be obstinate about "presence", even if they were materially emphemeral, and adamant about immobility, even in the face of disappearance or destruction. Wether inside the white cube or out in the Nevada desert, wether architectural or landscape orientated, site specific art inititally took site as an actual location, a tangible reality, its identity composed of a unique combination of physical elments, length, depth, height, texture and size of walls or shape of rooms; scale and proportion of plaza's, buildings or parks; existing condition of lighting, ventilation, traffic patterns, distinctive topogrpahical features and so forth.