{"id":4855,"date":"2011-08-11T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2011-08-11T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:27:15","slug":"night-haunts-a-journey-through-the-london-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/night-haunts-a-journey-through-the-london-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;3AM is the dark heart of the city, when the carefully repressed anxieties, aspirations and dreams of its emotionally parched inhabitants can no longer be contained&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/proboscis.org.uk\/author\/elenafesta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elena<\/a>, who is with us at the Proboscis studio under the <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/education\/lifelong-learning-programme\/doc82_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo Da Vinci scheme<\/a>, used a very eloquent excerpt from <em>Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night<\/em> by\u00a0Sukhdev Sandhu, in her post accompanying the visual essay she is currently composing, <a href=\"http:\/\/proboscis.org.uk\/2971\/visual-essay-%E2%80%93-mapping-the-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping The Streets<\/a>. The book runs parallel with some of the themes we&#8217;ve been exploring for <a href=\"http:\/\/proboscis.org.uk\/projects\/ongoing\/city-as-material\/\" target=\"_blank\">City As Material<\/a>, particularly the notion of an outsider&#8217;s forays into a hidden landscape &#8211; in this case, ironically, a world normally veiled by the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately set out to buy it, but soon discovered it was available in full online, as it was originally commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artangel.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artangel Interaction<\/a> as a web project, with chapters, or &#8220;episodes&#8221;, released monthly. The website uses ever-shifting, distorted pixels and visuals as a backdrop and ambient sound paired with the text, both emanating an eerie nocturnal resonance, as the reader delves deeper into this insightful and poetic work.<\/p>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nighthaunts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nighthaunts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4859\" title=\"nighthaunts\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nighthaunts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nighthaunts.jpg 581w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nighthaunts-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nighthaunts-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;3AM is the dark heart of the city, when the carefully repressed anxieties, aspirations and dreams of its emotionally parched inhabitants can no longer be contained&#8221; Elena, who is with us at the Proboscis studio under the Leonardo Da Vinci scheme, used a very eloquent excerpt from Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[58,42,91,67,65],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-augmented","tag-book","tag-city-as-material","tag-online","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}