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Category Archives: Experimental Historiography
Remotely Sensing Cape Farewell
I recently gave a presentation at the RGS-IBG annual conference where I creatively presented a series of 35mm slides from my dad’s 1972 mountaineering expedition to Cape Farewell, Greenland. I gave the presentation in a session entitled “Me, my self … Continue reading
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Maps and Mapping, Sound Art, Spatial Theory
Tagged archival practice, Art and Climate Change, Cape Farewell, critical historiography, Derek McCormack, Greenland, Ideas of North, Jim Patchett, loss, love, mountaineering, Nigel Thrift, non-representational and performative art practices, Non-Representational Theory, Royal Geographical Society
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Terrible Karma’s Insertion into the Glossy World of Western Canada Fashion Week
As I mentioned in an earlier post the collaborative audio-visual work - Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – created by Adeola Enigbokan and myself was being shown at Western Canada Fashion week’s official after party Splash! last … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Public Art, Sound Art, Spatial Encounters, Spectral Geographies
Tagged Adeola Enigbokan, audio-visual installation, conditions of labour, consumerism, Cut Make Trim (CMT), Cut Make Trim (CMT) army, Donovan Fashions Edmonton, faddishness, Fashion vistim, Fashionista, Garment factory fires, Garment Industry, garment workers, geographer-artists, globalization of the fashion industry, materialism, merle patchett, Oral History, Site-specific, sound installation, Splash!, sweatshops, Terrible Karma Reverberations, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory centenary, Western Canada Fashion Week
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Walls of Sound: the Sound Conservation Centre
Walls of Sound is a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring the work of the Sound Conservation Centre at the British Library. The idea for the programme, produced by Julian May and presented by radio historian Sean Street, was to explain … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Cartography, Experimental Historiography, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps, Sound Art
Tagged BBC radio 4, British Library, historical documents, O’o A’a bird last recorded song, Oral History, Sound archives, Sound Conservation Centre, Sound Recordings, Soundscapes, voices from history, Walls Of Sound
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Documentation of Terrible Karma: U-Haul truck as Mobile Exhibition Space
Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a mobile audio-visual installation exploring the global reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (in which 146 garment workers, mostly young immagrent women, were killed) on its 100th anniversary: March 25th 2011. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps, Spatial Encounters, Spectral Geographies
Tagged Adeola Enibokan, art in odd places, Asch Building, Experimental exhibition spaces, Experimental Geography in Practice i, installation documentation, inventive art practices. public actions or urban interventions without the confinement of a gallery or museum space, Labour activism, merle patchett, mobile exhibition space, new media, Performance, public actions, Public Art, Remember the Triangle Fire Rally, Site-specific installation, site-specific installations, social and spatial interventions, Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the Cooper Union, U-Haul Truck as Mobile exhibition space, Urban art interventions, video and audio projects
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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
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Creativity in the City, Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Public Art, Sound Art, Spatial Encounters, Spectral Geographies
Tagged Adeola Enigbokan, audio-visual installation, Cultural Geography, Cut Make Trim (CMT), David Toop, Dhaka Bangladesh, Garment factories, Garment factory fires, Garment Unions, Industrial Disaster, March 25th, merle patchett, mobile exhibition space, New York, Oral History, Phnom Penh Cambodia, Qingyuan China, Remember the Triangle Fire coalition, remember the triangle walk, sound art, Sound as Haunting, spectral geography, Terrible Karma, Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, triangle fire, Triangle Fire Centenary, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Starling Flight Dance Out-Dazzles Christmas Lights
I have been sorting through some family archives while at home in Aberdeen, Scotland. Below is a clip of footage taken by my Dad (Jim Patchett, a retired BBC News Cameraman) of a flight of starlings outshining the Christmas lights … Continue reading
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
Posted in Cultural Cartography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Spatial Theory, Spectral Geographies
Tagged Cheryl McEwan, Cultural Geography, Experimental Historiography, Fashioning Feathers, immateriality, Jaques Derrida, John Wylie, L. W. Hine, NY Sweatshops, Photography, Plumage Trade, Spectral Geographies, Spectro-Politics, Steve Pile, Tim Edensor
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