Coryat's Crudities: Eva Rudlinger

Experiment
Eva’s experiment was to offer a kind of "mirror" or precursor to the use of the suitcase by the mappers themselves. She would spend time taking a found suitcase around the streets of London and photographing it in various unremarkable locations, empty and opened. The resulting series of photographs would then become the tools for a mapping of Nottingham.
The mappers would be required to find matching locations in Nottingham, and deposit the photographs at these places (attached to posts, etc., in a manner similar to familiar "lost cat" notices), thus drawing parallels and highlighting differences between the two cities.


Two of the original photographs

Findings
A set of twenty-four photographs were produced with the collective name 'Kofferraum: Interchangeable Landscapes'. Over the course of the weekend closely matching locations were found for most of the images, and the photographs were left in the appropriate places. Many of the them were still in place when the locations were revisted hours or days later, though some inevitably had a shorter lifespan. The remaining images were deposited in the city at a later date.


Photographs as deposited in Nottingham