VOX POPULI: A Psychogeographies Project
Created by Randy Baker, Kylos Brannon, Jenny McConnell Frederick, and Jonelle Walker
March – August 2025
Two teenagers fall through time after a shared moment in the woods. Trying to find their way home, they repeatedly land at different Washington DC protests throughout history. Each time encountering the city they thought they knew through the eyes of those who sought to change it.
Psychogeographies projects harness the power of both the built and natural world to create a visceral piece of immersive storytelling. Each month participants receive a map and instructions to travel to a new curated location in the DC area. Along with the map, they’ll receive a box of artifacts to engage all five senses while exploring each site with story elements such as letters, music, souvenirs, or photos. From March through August, each monthly box reveals a new location and a new chapter in the ongoing story.
Subscriptions to VOX POPULI include the multi chapter experience as well as a ticket to a summer live performance that culminates the story.
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What is PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES?
Hundreds of DC-Area audiences joined us for Rorschach’s first three Psychogeographies projects, described by the The Washington Post: “[a] season-long immersive experience, [the project] sends audiences on monthly excursions to lesser-traveled Washington-area sites, where landscapes — together with the contents of curated mailed packages — help conjure a mysterious overarching story that is partly set in those locations.”
DC Metro Theatre Arts said about the project, “Rorschach Theatre’s current production is…an adventure of the mind and, if you wish, the body… The innovative form of art incorporates literature, music, mystery, romance, and DC’s highlights and history, all steeped in a hope for a better world… Rorschach Theatre has hit the jackpot with this innovative form of art, incorporating literature, music, mystery, romance, and DC’s highlights and history, all steeped in a hope for a better world.”
“Psychogeography” is a term coined by philosopher Guy Debord in the 1950s and refers to the intersection of psychology and geography. Our own psychological experiences of a city reveal hidden places – forgotten, discarded, or marginalized aspects of an urban environment. Locations have a history, a soul, a meaning beyond the dirt and bricks that surround it. These meanings range from the historical to the aesthetic to the personal, but all of these things give the space its resonance.
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