Immersive tours have become a reality and I guess it's the most likely way I am ever going to stand at the top of the great pyramid of Cairo. Somewhat by chance, I ended up taking this immersive tour of Ancient Egypt while visiting Xi'an, the Chinese city famous for its Terracotta Warriors. Yes I was in an ancient Chinese capital but I was not about to go and see real history, it was the fake sort I was looking for and boy did I get it.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2025
The Immersive Tour of Ancient Egypt: Horizon of Khufu
Monday, 18 August 2025
The Japanese Interval Walk
Friday, 15 August 2025
Make China Great Again Tour
Friday, 8 August 2025
Ways To Wander: Google the name...
Monday, 4 August 2025
The Pink Tour of Shanghai
Friday, 21 March 2025
The Beijing Tour of All Tours: Video Documentation
There is not a great deal of video documentation of The Tour of All Tours: you had to be there to see it, basically. But, over time, some bits and pieces do come together and this is one of those. This video was made for the exhibition On Holiday (CEAC Xiamen 2022) which took critical tourism and performance as its basis. The Beijing tour was reconstructed as a video for the exhibition and here, now, is that video.
One of the things that is quite obvious is the gap between text and image. This is the result of filming the tour five years after it was made. Five years is a long time in Beijing and many changes had taken place. This gap is not so much a problem as another layer and point of interest, as far as I see it.
One of the biggest changes is that the organization that commissioned and hosted the tour, Bookworm, had left Sanlitun. There was, therefore, an element of nostalgia for the recent past.
Sunday, 26 January 2025
An Aquatic Themed Tour of Reclamation Street, Hong Kong