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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Geographer-artists: creative practice as research tool?
Consider yourself a geographer-artist? If so then you may be interested in submitting an abstract for the following session – ‘Geographer-artists: creative practice as research tool? – being organized by Dr Harriet Hawkins (University of Bristol) and Dr Phil Jones … Continue reading
F.E.A.S.T: Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics
The current economic climate is forcing artists and not-for-profit artist-run centres to come up innovative new funding strategies. One of these is FEAST (Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics). FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial … Continue reading
Posted in 'Slow Art' and Sustainability
Tagged F.E.A.S.T, kickstarter, micro-funding
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MAP: Movement Art Public/Make Art Public
I have recently been introduced to MAP: Movement Art Public/Make Art Public. Founded in January 2006, in Montreal Quebec, MAP is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of art and culture in everyday life. MAP applies an innovative strategy … Continue reading
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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UNDERCURRENTS: EXPERIMENTAL ECOSYSTEMS IN RECENT ART
Our planet faces unprecedented change. If we continue on our current path, by the end of this century, or earlier, our environment will be in a state that modern humans have never experienced. In parts of the world, supplies of … Continue reading
What is Cultural Geography?
In this post I would like to address a question which is often asked of me in Canada: what is “Cultural Geography”? Cultural Geography is a subfield of Human Geography which focuses “upon the patterns and interactions of human culture, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Spatial Theory
Tagged affect, Berkeley School, Bruno Latour, Carl Sauer, Cultural Geography, definition, Denis Cosgrove, embodied practice, feminist theory, Geographic Practice, Geographic research, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, hybrid geographies, landscape, Martin Heidegger, marxism, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, merle patchett, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Nigel Thrift, Non-Representational Theory, Positivism in Geography, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, Sarah Whatmore, spatial science
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Elastic City: Reshaping New York through Walks
Thanks to Barbara for introducing me to Elastic City, an artist run company that commissions a series of artist-led sensory city tours in NY. Elastic City is produced and directed by Todd Shalom and “intends to make its audience active … Continue reading
Bask in the Limelight Courtesy of Sans façon
Sans façon, a collaborative art practice between British artist, Tristan Surtees, and French architect, Charles Blanc, are currently touring their public light installation: Limelight: Saturday Night. The work was chosen to form part of a series of works … Continue reading
Posted in Public Art, Spotlight, Uncategorized
Tagged Light Installation, Public Art, Sans Facon
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Sounding Underground
I am currently doing research on creative and radical mapping projects for a workshop I am planning to hold in Edmonton: “Off the Grid: Exploring Creative Cartographies”. The workshop will have a session on the theme of “Mapping Sound and Sounding … Continue reading
The Non-Productive Role of the Artist: The Creative Industries in Canada
Essential reading for anyone interested in (or worried about) the rise of the ‘creative industries’ in Canada: “The Non-Productive Role of the Artist: The Creative Industries in Canada” by Marc James Lger Abstract The televised parliamentary leaders’ debate of 2008 … Continue reading
Experimental Geography in Practice 