Creative mappings: Crossing Boundaries- exhibitions and symposium
Apologies for cross postings
For those interested in geography, art and mapping please find details below of two collaborative exhibitions and an interdisciplinary symposium happening in London between now and late July. For further details please visit the websites or contact me off list on [log in to unmask]
1) ‘The Creative Compass’ runs from Thursday 6 May to Friday 2 July 2010 at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR. http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/Exhibition.htm
2) ‘Whose map is it?’ New Mappings by international artists runs from Wednesday 2 June to Saturday 24 July 2010 at Iniva, Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA <http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2010/whose_map_is_it>
3) Crossing Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Symposium is being held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, 2 June, 10am-5pm. For further details see below or visit the website. http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Crossing+Boundaries+Symposium.htm.
Crossing Boundaries is an interdisciplinary symposium which aims to discuss issues raised by the two exhibitions and by artists’ use of mapping practices more generally.
The symposium brings together artists, geographers, and theorists of art and visual culture to engage with the critical potential of artistic approaches to mapping.
Speakers include; Prof. Irit Rogoff; Prof. Philip Crang; Dr Martin Dodge; Prof. Simon Harvey; Prof. Catherine Nash; Dr. Gary Priestnall, Dr. David Pinder; Dr Alex Vasudevan and Dr Harriet Hawkins.
Artists; Bouchra Khalili; Agnes Poitevin-Navarre; Otobong Nkanga; Esther Polak; Susan Stockwell; Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa; and, curator Paul Goodwin.
Through keynote lectures, panels and gallery-based discussion the symposium explores the following themes:
Counter-cartographies:
Cartographic languages and modern mapping practices are tools used by modern state and its agencies. These new artistic practices enroll creativity in a challenge to the ideological authority of maps and their role in the nexus of power-knowledge. Creative mapping becomes a radical geographic practice, drawing attention to what is often left off the map, exposing the fragmentations and inconsistencies of space itself, and making the forces and mechanisms behind the production and consumption of these maps visible.
Networks, connectedness and mapping relationality:
Creative mapping strategies and mapping devices such as GPS and GIS provide a means for getting to grips with understandings of space as connected and fluid. They enable us to situate ourselves in the complex networks of relations within, and between, communities and places, and offer the potential for creatively shaping and recording contemporary experiences of space.
Subjectivites:
Experimental mappings of bodies of knowledge and experiences suggest a repositioning of the practice of mapping from offering an external truth to developing a very personal and subjective focus. In place of a view from 'nowhere' these are mappings of the poetic and experimental contours of a place, reconfigured and reanimated mappings from and of ‘somewhere’ and 'someone'. With this repositioning comes a mapping which moves beyond vision, to include the sensuous multiplicity of experiences, emotions and relations through which people develop a sense of place and community.
The symposium takes place at the RGS – IBG, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
Tickets are £35 each (£17.50 concessions), the price of the ticket includes lunch and refreshments. Book at www.rgs.org
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