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Category Archives: Curation as Spatial Practice
Strip Appeal – International Design Competition
As Postdoctoral Fellow at the City-Region Studies Centre I am currently curating an international design competition to re-imagine the strip mall. News about the competition recently made the front page of the Edmonton Journal where they covered a submission to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture and Aesthetics, Creativity in the City, Curation as Spatial Practice, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies
Tagged Architecture, City-Region Studies Centre, design competition, Re-design, re-imagine, retro-fit, Strip Appeal, Strip Mall, Suburbia
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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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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
Reflecting on Dead Birds: a Photographic Study by Andriko Lozowy
Andriko Lozowy, photographer and sociologist, recently took a series of photographs – Reflecting on Dead Birds – of the exhibition Fashioning Feathers… that I recently curated at the FAB gallery, Edmonton. The photographs act as a virtual tour of the … 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
Fashioning Feathers Flyer
The flyers for the exhibition – Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade – I have been working on have been sent out and I want to post them here and invite you to the Opening Reception … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Geographer-artists
Tagged affect, Andrea Roe, birds of paradise, Dead Birds, FAB Gallery, Fashioning Feathers, fashioning feathers... website, Kate Foster, material culture, merle patchett, Millinery Crafts, Millinery taxidermy, Murderous Millinery, opening reception, sci-art, the plumage trade
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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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Experimental Geography in Practice 