Tasks / Journey To The End Of The Night Chicago
A pursuit across Chicagø in 6 parts, staged on the night of April 19th, 2008.
The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.
For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.
If you participated in Journey Chicagø - as a player, chaser, or volunteer - please post your adventure here. We encourage you to be detailed and thorough. If you have photographs, please post them. If you don't, consider making a comic. Describe your chases, the people you met, what you thought of the route, the checkpoints, and the city in general. Feel free to make opulent references to Debord, de Certeau, Céline, Psychogeography, Social Plastik, subversive play, Reclaim the Streets, and the aesthetics of failure.
Yours,
Dax Tran-Caffee
1 to 12 players
50 points
Level 1
Created by Dax Tran-Caffee
32 completed :: 8 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
Comments
Lookin forward to this event in Chicago tonight )
Thats where the Tower is supposed to be right? I hope somebody found it.
My shadow will chase me.
I will escape or be caught depending on the lighting.
fifteen points? gosh that seems low for seven and a half miles of exquisite adventure!
Really? Cause I feel sort of bad for taking points for it at all.
that's because you clearly have some problem inside your brain
(it's also low compared to historical Journeys to the End of the Night in other locales)
(it also appears to be changed)
The footage is still wreckage all about the cutting room floor.
Here is a rough cut of the reading of the rules. I know, not that interesting. But perhaps a little interesting.
More to follow.
Hahahahahaha! Oh, I am so full of love for this.
Hey look, there I am, the guy in the blue raincoat.
AHHH! does anyone know where to look for the video at?
Incidentally, what's Social Plastik?
Social Plastik: the idea that everyone is an artist
Awesome. Great video, especially the skills of that guy in the end whoever he may be.. big balls I must say. Cant wait to have the time to properly read through everyones completetion of the task.
Big win for Dax.
I feel so fashionably late.... first I miss Chicago's first Large scale zombie-walk in I don't know how long, then I find I missed *this* too? You people should have attracted me to your game sooner. I blame you all for all my problems for today. Have a nice afternoon.
Praxis
view all images for: Journey to the End of the Night Chicago
Since most of our time was spent running in terror and not documenting, FOEcakes is sharing our pool of photos amongst ourselves, which explains why you might see some repetition amongst praxii. Prologue up to 7:30pm In which we gather, arrive a...
First let me say that I am brand new to this site, thanks solely to the journey, and I really have no idea what I'm doing. That said, this was certainly a crazy weekend, and I'll try to capture it without being a total doofus. Though I make no promis...
Informed we'd have sweet things to eat, We drew up the concept you see, We shopped and we sewed, To make these cute clothes, And now we're the T. C. C. E. At seven thirty-seven they appeared; The first two players heading up the pack. They shout...
What an epic night. Team FoeCakes started out as maybe 20 people who all started the race together. A few blocks of sprinting later and the team had dispersed. A lot of us made it to the first checkpoint together and then we headed down the safe zone...
I made the remark a few times over the weekend that I'm in Chicago so often they'll probably start charging me taxes. And yet this most recent visit was infused with so much randomness, chance, and serendipity, so many truly enjoyable new people, an...
the short quote descriptions of the night: "We used children as spotters" -oliver x "I never felt unsafe in Chicago.. I mean from strangers." - starfive "He's red! Run!" - celina link to bigger map here's the approxi...
A Few Words Regarding Dax and SF0 Before I talk about the Journey itself, and my experience preparing for and playing in it, I wanted to say a few words about the person who brought me there. I first saw Dax in his role as The Villain, and his con...
I assisted the amazing Dax (wow, that sounds like a stage magic act, doesn't it?) in whatever ways I was able for his superb planning of Journey to the End of the Night: Chicago. On the evening of April 11th, about a week before the event, we met up...
One more block..... No red, no red, no red, no red..... We got this.Prologue I woke up in a strange place. People were yelling, but it seemed empty, meaningless. They won't have a voice tomorrow -- instead, they'll have regret. Not me, though. Aft...
I consider myself to be a rather introverted person (“You are so not,” I can hear Gremlin saying…), so what better way to spend a Saturday evening than playing a game where you run away from everyone else, whether you know them or not? Actuall...
Nice poster.
I await Journey FØrt WØrth, where I will be the only one participating. :D