-
-
About
Alice Mrongovius: Artist, Innovator, Communicator.
Find me here:
banditfox.com
@AliceMrongovius
LinkedIn
+Alice MrongoviusPassionate about creative innovation, open and dynamic business structures, quality social media editorial and actively engaging communities.
Trained as a Fine Artist at the VCA in Melbourne, Australia, as well as studies in Accounting and Multimedia (Media Studies), my background is working with non-profit Arts organisations and in my own art publishing business. Since arriving in Berlin in 2010 I have worked in technology start-ups; managing online communities, communication and marketing.
Category Archives: Psychogeography
Berlin state of mind
“To draw is to look, examining the structure of appearances. A drawing of a tree, shows not a tree, but a tree-being-looked at.” John Berger, Berger on Drawing, p.71. Share|
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged Berlin, botonising the asphalt, drawing, John Berger
Leave a comment
The Poet and the Prostitute: the search for female subjectivity: Part 3
The Poet and the Prostitute: the search for female subjectivity: Part 1 The Poet and the Prostitute: the search for female subjectivity: Part 2 Excluded from full participation in cultural production, most early records of activities of women participating the … Continue reading
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged female flaneur, female subject, flaneur, Irmgard Keun, Mary Higgs, Michele Bernstein, psychogeography, Sophie Calle, Swoon
Leave a comment
The Poet and the Prostitute: the search for female subjectivity: Part 2
Modernity has continued and expanded on the historical privileging of sight, critiquing the modern metropolis as creating the condition of ocular centrism, Guy Debord in the Society of the Spectacle states “In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all … Continue reading
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged female flaneur, female subject, female subjectivity, flaneur, Guy Debord, John Berger, Laura Mulvey, psychogeography, scopophilia
1 Comment
The Poet and the Prostitute: the search for female subjectivity: Part 1
Through the research for my studio practice I had developed an interest in the concept of the psychogeography. The term psychogeography, defined by Guy Debord in 1955 refers to the “effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on … Continue reading
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, female subjectivity, flaneur, psychogeographer, psychogeography, Will Self
2 Comments
Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 2
This strategy of the dérive became central to the Situationist psychogeographic explorations. Unlike the automatism of the Surrealists, it is much closer to the military tactic of drifting, defined as “a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper … Continue reading
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged De Quincey, Debord, derive, JG Ballard, psychogeography, SI, situationist, situlationism
Leave a comment
Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 1
The effects of the built environment upon the occupants of a city can be theorised as the result of a negotiation of the ‘place making’ ability of architecture and presented meanings used in architecture to control. It was a group … Continue reading
Posted in Psychogeography
Tagged architecture, Guy Debord, New Babylon, psychogeography
Leave a comment