This is a body of works that largely revolve around urban walking. Lived-in psychogeography for post 2010 UK. They are fragmented urban walks caught in a perpetual encounter with a sense of the future never arriving.

Stories From Forgotten Space

Dialogue between artist John Ledger and Leeds-based artist curator, using Greenwich, London as ideal territory in which  to discuss the tangled up nature of personal and societal lost futures, dead ends, and possible closures to the dead ends.

Greenwich

(John Ledger and Michael Hill) walking around old haunts (Around South/West Yorks), conjuring memories, and futures of the past, on the eve of the 2015 Uk General Election. Taking routes where long gone bus routes used to take us.

Lost Bus Routes and Pre-Election Rambles

This is part in a series of map-making’s of meanderings and musings that coincided with decisive events for the wider society. My thoughts on the past (my past),  present, and longings for a future decisively different from the present loosely congregating around these events. This part covers Manchester, Barnsley and London

The Big Smoke (And Mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space

Writings From HMS Brexit is an 'absent' performance in a disused pub in the eerie landscape of West Yorkshire. 

1. Glorified Lifeboat - John Ledger (through the [e]motions, on nearby towns and cities)
2. Shattered Exit - Jonathan Butcher
3. The Tale of Two Countries - JD Taylor
4. I am Run By Time - Mere Pseud

The location is a disused pub, looking back over a dislocating time; an erosion of time and place; a vacuum filled by unfulfilled ghosts from the past. Always in homage to the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, this series of prose speeches is strange due to the absence of the speakers. Only their half-finished endeavors will be visible; half finished pints and coats flung over the seats – as they proceed to dissect a body that has become to be known as ‘Brexit Britain’.

Writings From HMS Brexit

A spoken word piece I ommited from the full Writings From HMS Brexit performance (listen here https://soundcloud.com/theunrealisedproject/writings-from-hms-brexit-1    ). This piece is based around my home town in the early months of 2017.

Ends (Writings From HMS Brexit

The Retro Bar at The End of the Universe is an artist-led thinking and doing collective. Roughly originating in 2014, it formed from a sense of stuck-ness, within our hauntological and 'non stop-inertia' [Ivor Southwood] times. Originally evading the command to materialise within the steroid-pumped gentrification/photoshop-isation of a 'cult of self-belief' Britain, the collective is now working on other ways of engaging and acting, that try not be fast food for a neoliberal appetite. 

Our Soundcloud page contains projects from individual collective members, and will also begin to feature podcasts and other collaborative works in the coming year.