Driving a coach round the grid system of Milton Keynes until it runs out of diesel.
MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal) is the name of a 1 ½ day road trip in which myself and a group of volunteers were driven around the Milton Keynes grid until our coach ran out of diesel.
My recent book MKVH (The Screenplay) is based on the work MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal). Written in the style of the original Easy Rider screenplay from 1969 the book is an edited transcript of conversations occurring between participants on the 39 hour trip. The book also includes diary entries, photos, drawings, radio interviews and local and national news stories and employs a cut-up technique that mixes fact and fiction into an occasionally seamless narrative. The screenplay builds on ideas around inter-subjectivity, memory and narrative and comments on peak oil with particular relation to the car dependent culture of the new city of Milton Keynes.
The book of this project – MKVH (The Screenplay) can be bought though its distributors: Cornerhouse
