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BARGE — The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics — was
started by David Buuck in 2003. BARGE has organized several (de)tours around
the Bay Area, investigating regional sites & spaces that are underrepresented & overlooked
in more conventional touristic, commercial, & socio-political notions
of place & public space. BARGE investigates how vernacular landscapes — from
highways & billboards to waterfronts & public utilities, from industrial
lots & server farms to military bases & surveillance zones — are
constructed & inhabited, while also exploring the ways in which engaged
psychogeography can provide new modes of counter-tourism & activism.
In addition to walks, tours, location scouting & performance, BARGE
has developed guidebooks & slide lectures, some of which have been
presented in Vancouver, New York, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Washington, D.C., & elsewhere.
this site is Under Construction
Check back for updates. In the meantime:
Learn more about our latest project, Buried Treasure
Island.
Read past BARGE
reports at DeepOakland.org.
Download the collaboration Between Above and
Below (San Francisco Arts Commission, 2007) (PDF,
2.5 MB).
Visit the BARGE
flickr page.
Check the News
+ Notes blog.
Email us at buuckbarge (at) gmail
(dot) com to join the BARGE mailing list.