Exploring ‘an area of outstanding unnatural beauty’: a                treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London

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Battista, Kathy; LaBelle, Brandon; Penner, Barbara; Pile, Steve; Rendell, Jane

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Abstract	In this paper we describe the Pleasure of treasure treasure hunt around London’s King’s Cross area. The pleasure of treasure was devised as a response to Richard Wentworth’s exhibition An area of outstanding unnatural beauty, November 2002. Richard Wentworth sought to explore the character of King’s Cross by creating an exhibition space that would provide somewhere both where the overlooked and hidden histories of King’s Cross could be gathered together and also where people from the King’s Cross area could engage with activities that had been lost or overlooked. Similarly, The pleasure of treasure sought to take people around the area with a view to exploring its histories and oddities. More than this, it hoped to open up the area to fresh eyes, capable of seeing the secret treasures that lay there. In keeping with Wentworth’s project, the beauty of King’s Cross lay not only in the process of exploration but also in the chance encounters (of various kinds) that sometimes surprise and sometimes disappoint.
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2005
Seitenangabe	S. 429-462
Zeitschriftentitel	Cultural Geographies, 12 (2005) 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/1474474005eu345oa
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)