Experimental Geography
dal 28/1/2011 al 18/3/2011
Segnalato da
Francis Alys
Area Chicago
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio)
E-Xple
Ilana Halperin
Julia Meltzer
David Thorne
Lize Mogel
Multiplicity
Trevor Paglen
Raqs Media Collective
Ellen Rothenberg
Spruse
Deborah Stratman
Daniel Tucker
Alex Villar
Yin Xiuzhen
Nato Thompson
28/1/2011
Experimental Geography
Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke
The show explores the hybrid intersection of two lines of inquiry: the academic investigation of humanity's relationship to the earth, along one axis, and the artistic techniques of representation along the other. Occupying a web of strategies from the poetic to the didactic, from the geologic to the urban, the emerging discipline of experimental geography provides a platform for interpreting the world that makes us who we are.
Curated by Nato Thompson
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Area Chicago, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), Kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio), E-Xple, Ilana Halperin, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Lize Mogel, Multiplicity, Trevor Paglen, Raqs Media Collective, Ellen Rothenberg, Spruse, Deborah Stratman, Daniel Tucker, Alex Villar, Yin Xiuzhen.
Organized and circulated by ICI (Independent Curators International), the exhibition Experimental Geography (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002), explores the distinctions between the field of Geography and current artistic practices, as well as where they intersect. Artists in the exhibition present works ranging in subject matter, from creative analyses of our presence on the earth, to quantitative research of our planet. Curated by Nato Thompson (Creative Time, New York), the exhibition presents a view of this new mode of artmaking through a survey of works across a variety of mediums, notably the interactive screen, video and sound installation, photography, sculpture and experimental geography.
Experimental Geography explores the hybrid intersection of two lines of inquiry: the academic investigation of humanity’s relationship to the earth, along one axis, and the artistic techniques of representation along the other. Occupying a web of strategies from the poetic to the didactic, from the geologic to the urban, the emerging discipline of experimental geography provides a platform for interpreting the world that makes us who we are.
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Curator at 819.822.9600 ext. 2687 or vicky.chaineygagnon@ubishops.ca
Image: Ilana Halperin, Boiling Milk (Solfataras), 2000
Opening Saturday January 29th from 2pm to 4:30 pm
Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University
2600 College Street, Box 2136
Sherbrooke, Quebec J1M1Z7
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 noon to 5:00 pm (and all evenings of presentation at Centennial Theatre)