Category Archives: Curation as Spatial Practice

Experimental Geography in Practice!

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Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

This week I am travelling to the city of New York to premier the audio-visual installation Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that has been created and curated by Adeola Enigbokan and myself. Terrible Karma is a mobile audio-visual … Continue reading

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Where is Fort McMurray?

I recently accompanied a friend (and fellow social researcher) Andriko Lozowy on a trip to Ft McMurray to help him set up an exhibition of photographic work – Where is Ft McMurray? – that he and his collaborators are presenting … Continue reading

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Rescue Geographies: Exploring Understandings of Space and Place with Mobile Technologies

Rescue Geography is a project that sets out to explore understandings of space and place with mobile technologies. Led by academic geographers Phil Jones (University of Birmingham) and James Evans (University of Manchester) Rescue Geography is a non-commercial body interested in trying out … Continue reading

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Beyond the Academy: Research as Exhibition

I have recently been thinking through the exhibition as a research output while working on the production of Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade an exhibition I  am co-curating (with Liz Gomez) in association with the Material Culture … Continue reading

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Spectral Geographies and Crafting a Form of Experimental Historiography

“Spectrality effects in place, and differentially in different placings, an unsettling complication of the linear sequence of past, present and future. For Derrida we lack a nuanced sense of history and memory ‘as long as [we rely] on a general … Continue reading

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Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps

I have recently been researching sonic maps for a project I am developing and thought I would share some of the best examples I have come across so far… 1. Sound Seeker, NY “The NYSoundmap is a map created by … Continue reading

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Experimental Geography tours Canada

Experimental Geography (curated by Nato Thompson) will be touring Canada over the next couple of months. It is already showing at the Museum London, London, Ontario (October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011) and will then move to Freeman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University Sherbrooke, … Continue reading

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Dispatch: Notes towards a Lexicon of Urgencies

DISPATCH is the Independent Curators International’s (ICI) new bi-monthly online journal that features a different curator’s points of view on current developments in art. Practitioners based in different cities around the world are invited to use DISPATCH as their virtual … Continue reading

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Future Exhibitions: Spatial Encounters (and the production of space)

Future Exhibitions is an annual publication about exhibition making and curatorial concerns, both in Sweden (where it is published) and globally. The theme and title of this year’s issue is Spatial Encounters: “We will focus on the visitor as we … Continue reading

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