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Category Archives: Spatial Theory
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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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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Re-Inscribing the City: Unitary Urbanism and it’s Legacy
Re-inscribing the City is a panel discussion happening April 9th 2011, in New York. My friend (and fellow collaborator) Adeola Enigbokan of www.archivingthecity.com will be on the panel and although I can’t make it I would recommend it to critical … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Spatial Theory
Tagged anarchist book fair, archiving the city, Critical geography, Lettrrist/Situationist International (LI/SI), Space in social porcesses, The city, the Urban Manifesto, Unitary Urbanism, urban alienation
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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
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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A Rough Guide to Non-Representational Theory
There is increasing interest in practice and performance in cultural geography. Attempts to move beyond issues of representation and re-focus cultural geographic concerns on performativity and bodily practices are linked to the inception of what Nigel Thrift describes as ‘non-representational … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Experimental Geographies, Spatial Theory
Tagged Cultural Geography, Experimental methods, geography, Hayden Lorimer, J D Dewsbury, merle patchett, Nigel Thrift, Non-Representational Theory, Paul Harrison, Performance, Performativity, research methods, Sarah Whatmore, social science
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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
Posted in Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Experimental Geographies, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Theory
Tagged Centre for Land Use Interpretation, Centre for Urban Pedagogy, Experimental Geographies, kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio), Nato Thompson, Trevor Paglen
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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
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
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Curation as Spatial Practice, Experimental Geographies, Spatial Encounters, Spatial Theory
Tagged abstract space, curation, curation as spatial practice, differential spaces, experimental exhibitions, Future Exhibitions, Henre Lefebvre, Kilma X, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Rodney LaTourelle, space, Spatial Encounters, The Production of Space, white cube gallery
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Geo-Imaginaries: Topology vs Topography
New topological geo-imaginaries have to some extent supplanted landscape as a medium for theorising space and nature-culture realtions. Such accounts of space aim to challenge the static conceptions of space, measurement, distance, surface, and perspective developed by traditional landscape studies. … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Theory
Tagged geo-imaginaries, topography, topology
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