Coryat's Crudities A Geo-Conceptual Mapping Project Part of NAN-NANA, Nottingham, 28-30 April 2006 Bram Arnold Dave Ball Dædalus Rupert Hartley Chris Rountree Eva Rudlinger Emma Smith 'In a century of seemingly unlimited travel, when everyone becomes a tourist, it seems only right that art should hit the road.' Bridget Elliott & Anthony Purdy, 'Man in a Suitcase: Tulse Luper at Compton Verney', Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, August 2005 'Coryat’s Crudities' was a tourism-themed project by the group Discotheque utilising the motif of the suitcase. The project engaged with historical notions of the Grand Tour, and formed an interrogation into the idea of "tourism" itself. Two suitcases acted as a base for the project: one containing a kind of potted history of Discotheque’s activities thus far, and the other acting as a mobile "experiment kit" - the source of a series of interventions and dialogues from which the artists involved could engage with their temporary locale. The project is an ongoing one: initiated as part of a visit to Newcastle in September 2005, it was developed further for a visit to Nottingham, and will continue its intrepid journey on to pastures new... Background Project Mapping Criticism