Drift: The Hammersmith and City Line

Artist and filmmaker, Philippe Parreno, who created the documentary, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, takes us in Drift on a unique voyage through London — a journey without the typical purposes of a journey, an artistic, psychogeographical path — part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground.

'This is my rather steam punk proposal: A time machine. While you read this book you will go back in time. It takes an hour to read the book and it takes an hour to reach Barking station from Hammersmith station. This is an hour in 21 years.' So begins Philippe Parreno, running in film clips from Marilyn to Gremlins, Philip K. Dick to Jurassic Park, exploring as he goes the meaning of time, of consciousness, of art and creation. The result is an argument, an essay, a psychogeography, a manifesto.

• Author
• Philippe Parreno

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 112

• Series
• Penguin Lines – Celebrate 150 years of the London Underground

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-84614-629-9

• EAN
• 9781846146299

• Genres
• art

• Release date
• 2013