Feed Subscriptions
Rolling Links
- Mashable The Social Networking Blog
- Electro^Plankton A blog about design, technology, music and fashion.
- Futurelab Innovation in Education
- Science Blogs
- Cartoons on the backs of business cards.
Inspired in part by the work or activist and geographer Trevor Paglen, the art and curatorial collective Independent Curators International (iCI) invited visual artists, writers, installation artists, and geographers to find fresh ways of exploring the human relationship to space and landscape. The traveling exhibit Experimental Geography manipulates the boundaries between disciplines, using the humanities and visual arts to invite visitors to consider their own relationship to place and geologic time and create a form of geography that embraces “aesthetics, ambiguity, poetry.”
The exhibit includes a wide range of artists and organizations interested in landscape and the personal relationship to the environment. Participants include Paglen, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Daniel Tucker, the organizer of the We Are Here Map Archive, among others.
The social and political perception of space has intrigued researchers, providing an impetus for the now somewhat long in the tooth works of Michel Foucault and more recently inspiring An Atlas of Radical Cartography, which uses maps as a springboard for exploring waste, identity, conflict, and other issues, as well as the broad ranging Else/Where. The social uses of place, as discussed in the July-August 2008 issue of World Literature Today, has a similarly rich history, ranging from Romantic responses to the first wave of the Industrial Revolution to current works relying on immediate, lived experience to examine ecological issues and popular attitudes toward nature.
Curated by Nato Thompson, the traveling exhibit will appear at DePauw University from 19 September through 2 December 2008, followed by appearances in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Waterville, Maine.