ABOUT
Cartographies of the Imagination presents a forum for the multi-disciplinary discussion of cartography as world-making. We seek to explore alternative practices of charting not only physical places but also the means of mapping people, objects, memories, events, movements and narratives. To map is both a method of understanding and documenting, but within its enactment lie fundamental questions of truth and subjectivity, control, projection, and the navigation of places between the real and the imaginary. From Jonathan Swift to E.H. Shepard, Lewis Carroll to Jorge Luis Borges, Louise Borgeois to Guy Debord; the map has long been considered an object of power and projection - as the terrain through which to navigate between our physical and perceived worlds.
CALL
The multi-disciplinary forum will explore the potential of drawing, expanding beyond traditional map-making conventions and mediums to consider orthographic drawing, notation, film, imagery, physical modelling, time-lapse, performance and sound; practices that provoke the imagination and inhabit the “mind’s eye”. How does the language of cartography, implications of scale and dimension, and the projection of place, curate and shape the way in which we imagine, and how do we begin to chart and document spaces, territories that exist primarily in the mind?
We will explore the half-place that exists through the world-building process between place and imagination, between objectivity and impossibility, truth and myth, the tangible and the ephemeral. Charting places that were, are, and could be. The discrepancy between the world in which we live, and the means we have to represent it provide opportunities for imagined space to take on its own agency.
We invite scholars, practitioners and artists working with all forms of world-making to investigate and discuss their perspectives, projects, research and practice. We invite all interpretations of the topic - be it a talk or paper, presentation, live drawing, film, performance or otherwise. Approaches may include, but are not restricted to:
- CHARTING IMAGINED OR FICTIONAL SPACES
- SPECULATIVE AND NARRATIVE-DRIVEN CREATIVE PRACTICES
- THE LANGUAGE OF PLACE-MAKING
- ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF CHARTING THE LANDSCAPE
- PROJECTS QUESTIONING TRUTH, OBJECTIVITY AND ACCURACY
- AERIAL MAPPING, POWER, PROJECTION AND THE GOD’S EYE VIEW
- REFLECTIVE AND NON-REPRESENTATIONAL DRAWING
- PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY AND THE MAPPING OF THE MIND
- PATH-MAKING AND TIME-TRACING
- THE ‘BEFORE’ AND ‘AFTER’ IMAGE
- PERFORMATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE DRAWING PRACTICE
SUBMISSIONS
We welcome participants to submit proposals on their preferred format; be it through a presentation, performance, film screening or other appropriate form of contribution. As part of the wider forum, we will be hosting a series of cartographic workshops across a two-week span, proposals for and engagement with which is also welcomed.
Proposals should include a title, 300-word abstract and 3-5 project images or links to film/sound recordings if relevant, and a short bibliographical statement. Please email your submission to [log in to unmask] with the headline ‘Call’ by midnight on 16 January 2020 (GMT). Accepted proposals will be notified in February. The symposium will be held at OmVed Gardens, London N6 on 18th April 2020.
For more information please visit: https://cartographiesoftheimagination.com/
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