Craig Cooper absorbs the language of urban exploration from Parisian flaneur through the situationists to contemporary architectural examinations of city flows. Without decoupling the politically charged nature of some of these models of different engagement with the city, Cooper draws out the visual syntax of these processes placing the capacity to articulate their ideas to the fore. The map and the street sign are recurrent themes in his work, emphasising the differing languages that operate through the navigation of our shared space. By disabling their primary use, the signs and maps operate strangely, suggesting new opportunities to possess a city.
Craig Cooper's recent research inspired works move this language of psychogeography back into the field, and into the charged arena of real world dynamics.