This video essay was produced as a document of performance research activities that were undertaken between October 2014 and December 2015 in Lebanon, Tenerife and various cities in the USA.

From volcano climbing to taking a car ride with a stranger; from ‘reclaiming the sea’ to following the insistence of a path; from snowstorm evacuations to thinking about what the walls say in Portland, Beirut and Santa Cruz, this short video essay remediates a research journey through the twinned lens of terror and tourism. In revisiting Phipp’s [1999] concept of ‘tourorism’ via post-9/11 narratives of terror, prescient concerns arising from Phipp’s essay are translated into contemporary sites, situations and pre-occupations for the self-declared ‘tourorist’ video-maker.

Straddled somewhere between arthouse and holiday movie, the footage and findings from various research engagements are fused with narrative text as the video-essay presents an aperture on international travel and contemporary terror.