MAPQUEST

MAPQUEST
Exhibiton on view from September 16 – October 9, 2006 at PS122Gallery, NY

Works by: Lize Mogel and Dario Azzellini - Daniel Blochwitz - Cartographic Perspectives: Map Art - Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)- Ewen Chardronnet - The Friends of William Blake- Elise Gardella - Ryan Griffis/Temporary Travel Office - Ashley Hunt - Lasse Lau - Nadxieli Mannello - Carlos Motta- Sarah Ross - Gregory Sholette - curator Elena Sorokina.

Mapquest brings together work by artists, activists, writers and organizers, involved in experimentation with critical and dissident cartography. The exhibition examines various mapping strategies employed as response to specific social and political issues. Working not unlike investigative journalists, some participants conduct and map in-depth research of themes such as the functioning of private military contractors or recruitment centers. Others design maps as tools, featuring information that can be used to support for social action. In a similar vein they employ mapping strategies to produce alternative knowledge about networks of power and control in urban spaces.

The exhibition ran from September 17 through October 9, 2006 at PS122 Gallery, New York.

Acknowledgements to Benj Gerdes and Daniel Tucker.

 

Selected Exhibition Views

 

 

 

On the table:

Cartographic Perspectives: Map Art
Cartographic Perspectives (CP) is the professional journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). The journal publishes articles that have cartography, in the broadest understanding of the discipline, central to their message. CP is a unique journal that reflects the broad diversity of the membership of NACIS. In the past, CP has published articles in the realms of geo-visualization, practical cartography, analytical cartography, historical cartography, atlas design, cognitive cartography, critical/social cartography, indigenous cartography, map libraries, GIS and cartography, maps and education, and Map Art. The content of each issue of CP includes 2 or 3 research oriented articles; book, atlas and software reviews; a cartographical techniques piece; a map/library collections piece; a visual fields piece; and an occasional opinion column. For enquiries about CP please contact the editor, Scott Freundschuh, at sfreunds@d.umn.edu

The Friends of William Blake - www.counterrecruitmentguide.org
The New Yorkers' Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs, 2006
Artwork in order of appearance: Elise Gardella (p2, 40), Leah Hayes
(p15), Luisa Kazanas (p16), Swoon (p18), Jillian Tamaki (p24), Brandon
Bauer (p28), Colin Matthes (p39), Julia Shirar (p42), Martha Rosler
(p44), Christa Donner (p47, 48), Paul Chan (p55).

Carlos Motta
Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America since 1946
newsprint, 2006

 

 

Ewen Chardronnet and Pascal Simon
Trans-Cultural Mapping
2006

 

 

Daniel Blochwitz
Random Acts of Violence - See How It Feels When It’s Real
2006

 

 

Ashley Hunt (www.correctionsproject.com)
Prison Map #1 (What is the Prison Industrial Complex?)
Prison Map #2 (What is the Context for the Prison Industrial Complex?)
2002

 

 

Carlos Motta
Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America since 1946
newsprint, 2006

 

 

Sarah Ross
Archisuit, 2004

Archisuit is a project based on architectural structures that act as policing devices, made to move people along, discourage sitting, leaning, laying etc. Found in most U.S. cities, these devices are ubitqitous and often target a homeless population, and/or populations that congregate in public in specific ways (skateboarders or “urban youth” for example). “Archisuit”, an index of such structures, is a suite of 4 designer jogging suits that, when worn, allow a wearer to fit, comfortably, into certain prohibitive spaces. Each suit creates a literal outline, contouring and mapping a detail of a physical space. The suits were designed for four Los Angeles locations: a Hollywood Public library, a Silverlake neighborhood fence, the Ronald Reagan State Building, and downtown’s public “courtesy benches”.

 

 

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Public Education about Public Housing
2003

 

 

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Rosten Woo, Damon Rich, Stella Bugbee, Daniel D'Oca
2003

 

 

Lize Mogel and Dario Azzellini (www.publicgreen.com/projects/pmc_map.htm)
The Privatization of War: Colombia as Laboratory and Iraq as Large-Scale Application, 2006

 

 

The Friends of William Blake
The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention, 2004

 

 

Naxdieli Mannello
Let the Mirror Reflect the Room, 2006
(Santo "Pollero" Toribio Romo, patron saint of migrants, and the three Arizona border crossings)

 

 

Ryan Griffis/Temporary Travel Office
Tour of the Chicago Technology Park
2004-5 promotional poster, audio CD and guide map digital output

 

 

Gregory Sholette
Holy War Lamp (detail)
1985/2006
plastic and light