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Category Archives: Curatorial Concerns
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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Be Creative: Precarious Labour in Art and Cultural Worlds
I wont be in town for this but I would love to hear a recording or read someone else’s take on proceedings if anyone is going and wants to share: PUBLIC LECTURE ‘Critical Perspectives on Creative Labour’ Professor Angela McRobbie … Continue reading
Posted in 'Slow Art' and Sustainability, Creativity in the City, Curatorial Concerns
Tagged Angela McRobbie, arts administration, Berlin, critical perspectives on creative labour, Feminism and Futurity, freelance casualised creative work, Glasgow, human capital, London, Michel Foucault, precarious labour
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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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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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Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade
Feathers fascinate, feathers are fetishized, feathers are very much back in fashion. This exhibition takes us back to a time when the wings, bodies and heads of birds were used to adorn hats. Fashioning Feathers… explores the complex geographies of … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Geographer-artists
Tagged Andrea Roe, animal geographies, animal remains, bird taxidermy, birds killed for fashion, Consumption, contemporary art, Craft, Dead Birds, FAB Gallery, fashion feathers, Fashioning Feathers exhibition, Kate Foster, material culture, merle patchett, Millinery Crafts, objects in a state of becoming, Plumage Sweatshops, Plumage Trade, plumes, Taxidermy
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Liberate Tate: Alternative Tate Audio Tour
Art/activist group Liberate Tate, has put out a call out for a sound artist to work with them on an Alternative Tate Audio Tour in response to BP sponsorship. It’s a paid commission, and the deadline for people to send … Continue reading
Posted in 'Slow Art' and Sustainability, Curatorial Concerns, Events, Presentations, Happenings etc., Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Sound Art
Tagged Audio Tour, Call for Proposals, challenging the corporate presence of large oil companies inside cultural institutions, Immo Klink, Liberate Tate, sound art
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Experimental Geography in Practice 