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Street Flowers: Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land

Street Flowers: Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land is an on-going area of research of slow walks (which Collier calls ‘meanders’) around the centre and edgelands of Sunderland with different groups of people. The project aims to negotiate the apparent de-territorialisation of culture and the market place, by helping us to understand our sense of place and individuality. Collier proposes that meandering slows down the pace of everyday life and encourages creative thinking and social dialogue as well as the exchange of ideas, memories and embodied reflections.

A large scale artwork, developed through the walks, was shown at CIVIC (27 October 2011 - 13 November 2011) - the first International festival of billboard art in Sunderland.

Collier presented papers about the work Street Flowers: Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land at two conferences in 2012. At ‘Duration’ - an international, interdisciplinary conference exploring the temporality of contemporary public arts practice at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 29 March 2012 - 31 March 2012; and at the international conference ‘Tourist and Cultural Itineraries: From Memory to Development’, 13 June 2012 - 15 June 2012, organised by Laval University, Québec, and an essay Street Flowers: Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land has been published by Laval University, Quebec (ISBN 978-2-7637-1789-0)