Have you seen a bigger chip than this in E8? Tell us when, and where, for a chance to win a fabulous prize! Email your images, big chip stories and chip shop recommendations to info@walkwalkwalk.org.uk
The walkwalkwalk archive contains one of our favourite finds, the chip fork. The story of this find, ‘The Chip Shop Experiment’ forms the starting point for our project in E8. We will conduct a Chip Shop Experiment to establish the distances and routes, which can be walked from the chip shops of E8 whilst eating a bag of chips. Our research will entail us buying a bag of chips at various chippies and eating the chips whilst walking along. We will discard our chip forks at the point where we finish the bag. Our explorations to discover E8 Chippies will generate stories, as we ask for directions and recommendations and stumble across unknown venues.
From our research we will construct a map detailing the various locations of chip shops in E8 and the routes that can be walked from them. We will invite others to try out these walks, and consume chips - consequently littering their chip forks back in to E8.
We will create unique walkwalkwalk E8 wooden chip forks, printed with information – e.g. our web address, quotations, sayings and phrases - and paper bags for chips, printed with E8 stories and the map. These will be given to chip shops to use when serving their customers. We will thus disseminate our walk commemorative ephemera back to the locality- the wrappings and forks, with their stories and information will find their way to the people and pavements of E8. The chip forks and paper bags will also be available in Transition gallery – b.y.o. chips.
January 2007
