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Category Archives: Spatial Encounters
A Very Modern Ruin: St Peter’s Seminary
As part of my Strip Mall activities I am currently researching innovative strategies for the adaption and reuse of built forms which have fallen out of use. One excellent example I want to bring to your attention is the repurposing, … Continue reading
The Aesthetics of the Strip Mall
I am currently researching the architecture and aesthetics of Strip Malls for the design competition I am launching in collaboration with the City-Region Studies Centre (see previous post for details). The design competition will ask for submissions to reinvent the … Continue reading
Suburbia Interviewed
“The suburbs can go toward death – or life. We will have decay if we do the same old things. We need to reimagine a sustainable future. Car-centered development is going to kill us. We need to work for walkable … Continue reading
Unbuilding Detroit
In Unbuilding Detroit, a Falling Tree production for BBC radio 4, producer Eleanor McDowall explores how abandoned buildings and structures, and entropic processes of decomposition and decay, are providing the materials for artists to re-imagine Detroit. Unfortunately it’s no longer available … Continue reading
Understanding the Creative City Through New Digital Mapping Technologies
Human geographer Dr. Chris Brennan-Horley is visiting Edmonton next week and is giving a presentation at the City-Region Study Centre entitled: Where is creativity in the city? Understanding the creative city through new digital mapping technologies Chris Brennan-Horley asks us to … Continue reading
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Experimental Geographies, Geographer-artists, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Encounters, Spatial Theory
Tagged City-Regions Study Centre, Creativity in the city, Dr Chris Brennan-Horley, GIS technology, mundanity, new digital mapping technologies, suburbs, Telus Centre, University of Alberta
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Becoming Geographer-Artist…
Although unfortunately unable to attend in person, slide-shows documenting 2 creative projects I have instigated and collaboratively created and curated are being shown in a session entitled “Geographer- artists: creative practice as research tool?” at the annual meeting of the … Continue reading
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Geographer-artists, Public Art, Sound Art, Spatial Encounters, Spatial Theory
Tagged AAG Seattle, Adeola Enigbokan, Andrea Roe, art-geography collaborations, audiencing, audio-visual installation, collaborations, creative geographies, creative practice, curation as spatial practice, experimental approaches to fieldwork, Fashioning Feathers exhibition, feathers, fshion, garment workers, Geographer- artists: creative practice as research tool?, geographer-artists, geographical research methods, geopolitics of art production/consumption, institutional critique, Kate Foster, Liz Gomez, marginal arts organizations, Material Culture Institute, merle patchett, mobile exhibition space, mobile installation, Office of Experiments, participatory geographies, radical knowledge production, Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Thomas Jellis, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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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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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