On
Saturday 21st June 2008, Accidental Collective
revealed their new work, Lost in Translation,
in their home city of Canterbury.
Accidental
Collective collected slang words from young
people from various cities across the
U.K. The slang words collected helped to create
a series of small performances and installations
that were unpacked and performed at various
sites across Canterbury. Each site was assigned
a city, and so the U.K was mapped across Canterbury.
Accidental Collective embarked on a journey
to map all of the eight cities throughout
the four-hour performance. From the creation
of the Thames, to the ‘Shortest Ever
Most Informative Tour of Canterbury You Will
Ever Take in Five Minutes’, Accidental
Collective tore through the city, with an
attitude that sat bizarrely between that of
guerrilla performance and British holiday
makers, with more than a nod towards psycho-geography.
Some audience members followed the whole performance
from site to site; others stumbled across
displaced cities in the strangest of places
– from Oxford outside the library, to
Inverness in the clock tower.
Lost
in Translation was premiered as part of Canterbury
City Council’s 'Summer in the City’
programme and is funded by the Heritage Lottery
Fund and made with the kind support of Canterbury
City Council.
