Cargo of Questions: 2018

Re:LODE & A Cargo of Questions

The Re:LODE project relaunch of LODE in 2017 has proposed a number of questions that address contemporary situations in 22 places along the LODE-Line that follows a "great circle" girding our planet Earth linking the quaysides of Liverpool and Hull.

The questions proposed in 1992 that relate to the LODE-zone and the places (boundaries and borders) where the LODE cargo of compasses were assembled (and wrapped in packing from a newspaper of the day of assembly) have been used as touchstones to help explore contemporary realities in a local and global context.

At the beginning of 2018 the Re:LODE project aims to use the questions of 1992, and the questions formulated 25 years on, to reflect on how the underlying matrix of power, communication and technology, is shaping the present along this LODE-Line!

Q. Why "in Search of EUROPA"?

A. An artistic use of the "arbitrary" LODE-Line offers a method for exploring everyday realities, concerns, issues and challenges, in precise local contexts that relate to a precise global context.

Q. Where is EUROPA? Europe is where this project originates, but Europe means many things to many people. Perhaps Europe is out there somewhere in the perceptions of our fellow inhabitants of a wider world, and the world wide web?

Re:LODE and 22 places and a Cargo of Questions from 1992 and, 25 years' on, in 2017!