about town: cinema fan 2000

article in cartography, the city, published by catalyst arts
distributed throughout belfast

Cinema Fan 2 / 9 / 00
There is a propeller fan built into the rear gable of a derelict cinema on the Crumlin Rd. The cinema has been derelict for years; it has even been burnt out several times by local bored kids.

One time one guy got stuck on the roof as it was ablaze. The fire brigade had to rescue him with theirextension ladders. His presence on the roof of a smouldering cinema was a bit incriminating. To say the least. The fan kept whirring away through the whole affair. It is still whirring away, a wind driven silent Cyclops.

'About Town' consists of a series of incidental stories from around Belfast gathered over the period of two months. These stories are used to attempt to map the city in a verenacular personalised way.

Belfast is a city frequently represented in the printed media but the representations of the city in newspapers are often restricted to familiar cliches of an unlivable place. This article takes the form of a map, acknoweledging it as an editorial document where select information is included or left out according to the maps function.