FromThe waste landtoPast‐present fuchsia: The re‐development of the Broadmead Shopping Centre

Abstract

Two places in the UK city of Bristol, Broadmead Shopping Centre and the new Cabot Circus Mall, are currently undergoing a process of reordering, reorganising and recycling. The paper offers a reflection on the physical and hyperreal places produced by these processes and the effect of their organisational dynamics. It juxtaposes readings of the places based on a psychogeographical method known as the dérive with images of the sites and other texts: T.S. Eliot’s The waste land and Ralph Hoyte’s Past‐present fuchsia. The latter is a text‐based artwork on the hoardings around the Cabot Circus building site. Places and poetry are related to Bauman’s concepts of heavy and liquid modernity. Insights are developed into their relationship with waste which Broadmead attempts, unsuccessfully, to exclude and Cabot Circus to recycle. Broadmead therefore retains a connection to realities increasingly threatened by spectacle and commodification.

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