[Angie Waller / The Most Boring Places in the World]
A rather interesting email recently showed up in the Vague Terrain inbox announcing the launch of Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map. This initiative involves an art exhibition, an event series and a forthcoming publication all of which reconsider mapping and photographic representation. An excerpt from the description of the undertaking:
Photography and cartography are entwined in similar processes of subject orientation that structure our experience of social, environmental and virtual landscapes. A map is not a representation so much as a system of propositions. This project reveals mapping itself as a generative process of knowledge creation, a liberatory method for re-imagining and re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, and the relationship between space and place.
Participating artists include: Anthony Auerbach, Katherine E. Bash, Noah Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Oraib Toukan, Angie Waller and Nikolas Schiller.
You can get more information on this Los Angeles-based project at tatteredfragments.info.
