Research-based installation, 2005
Video installation and posters

This research aims to unveil the colonial legacy and voice of the widely-used Lonely Planet guidebooks for shoe-string travellers. Offering a discourse for travels that promise a genuine encounter with locales, the popularity of these travels books creates an accompanying industry surrounding the suggested sites by the Lonely Planet. Study the Lonely Planet is divided into two main facets. First, a video installation produced in Sweden consisting of a reading of the introduction text from the Lonely Planet Sweden by participants belonging to the margins. Secondly, a posted mapping the country of origins of the authors of these traveller-friendly publications is distributed free of charge to visitors.


© Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen