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BARGE
BARGE — The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics — was
started by David Buuck in 2003. BARGE has organized several (de)tours,
actions, and installations in and around the San Francisco Bay Area,
investigating regional sites and spaces that are underrepresented and overlooked
in more conventional touristic, commercial, & socio-political notions
of place and public space. BARGE investigates how vernacular landscapes — from
highways and billboards to waterfronts and public utilities, from industrial
lots and server farms to military bases and surveillance zones — are
constructed and inhabited, while also exploring the ways in which engaged
psychogeography can provide new modes of counter-tourism and activism.
In addition to walks, tours, installations, and performance, BARGE has
developed guidebooks and performative slide lectures, some of which have
been presented in San Francisco, New York, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Washington,
D.C., Vancouver, Portland, London, and elsewhere.