Mapping the Cartographic: Contemporary Approaches to Planterization
The exhibition Mapping the Cartographic: Contemporary Approaches to Planetarization seeks to inquire into practices that counter the sense of 鈥渞eal鈥� space defined by algorithmic representation, as these add to the extensive repertoire of the natural world through its digital manifestation.
After Earth鈥檚 famous Apollo 17 photo 鈥淭he Blue Marble鈥� of 1972, contemporary art has engaged in a view of the planet, where Earth, as W. T. J. Mitchell explains, has been treated as an image. This is so much so that to enter a space today is like entering a virtual picture, where the subject is only but a character in a preconceived image or stage. Since it is through and in media that we grasp Earth as an object for cognitive, practical, and affective relations, the continuum of systems of power highlight the urgency to acknowledge the power relations embodied in traditional map-making practices. The need extends to a necessity of deconstructing linearity, one-point perspective and to offer spaces of deterritorialization, new temporalities, and recognition of all 鈥� among categories of human and non-human others.
In this regard, the exhibition subverts conventional cartographic representations by proposing other relationships to space and territory.
In thinking about how 鈥淭he Blue Marble鈥� signified the absolute loss of place and situatedness resulting from this ubiquitous rendition of earth as image, the artistic projects included in the exhibition attempt to re-imagine human and more-than-human relationships to our planet. In that sense, the exhibition asks: How can artistic projects undermine or rethink the technification of the natural and its rendition as real? How is digital representation mediating our changing notion of the 鈥渘atural鈥� as a boundary, as a resource, or as engendered terrain?
Curated by Sara Garz贸n, Ameli M. Klein and Sabina Oroshi of the international curatorial association Collective Rewilding, the exhibition brings together works by Iman Datoo (UK), Aksiniya Peycheva (Bulgaria), Pedro Hurpia (Brasil), Marina Camargo (Brasil), Paula K枚nig (DE), Hara Shin (DE), Luka Ked啪o (HR), Monika Gabriela Dorniak (DE), Latent Community Collective (Greece), Mari Fraga (Brasil), Hanne Van Dyck (BE), Yiannis Pappas (Greece), Matheous da Rocha Montanari (Brasil) & Deborah Mora (Italy).
Recommended for you
The exhibition Mapping the Cartographic: Contemporary Approaches to Planetarization seeks to inquire into practices that counter the sense of 鈥渞eal鈥� space defined by algorithmic representation, as these add to the extensive repertoire of the natural world through its digital manifestation.
After Earth鈥檚 famous Apollo 17 photo 鈥淭he Blue Marble鈥� of 1972, contemporary art has engaged in a view of the planet, where Earth, as W. T. J. Mitchell explains, has been treated as an image. This is so much so that to enter a space today is like entering a virtual picture, where the subject is only but a character in a preconceived image or stage. Since it is through and in media that we grasp Earth as an object for cognitive, practical, and affective relations, the continuum of systems of power highlight the urgency to acknowledge the power relations embodied in traditional map-making practices. The need extends to a necessity of deconstructing linearity, one-point perspective and to offer spaces of deterritorialization, new temporalities, and recognition of all 鈥� among categories of human and non-human others.
In this regard, the exhibition subverts conventional cartographic representations by proposing other relationships to space and territory.
In thinking about how 鈥淭he Blue Marble鈥� signified the absolute loss of place and situatedness resulting from this ubiquitous rendition of earth as image, the artistic projects included in the exhibition attempt to re-imagine human and more-than-human relationships to our planet. In that sense, the exhibition asks: How can artistic projects undermine or rethink the technification of the natural and its rendition as real? How is digital representation mediating our changing notion of the 鈥渘atural鈥� as a boundary, as a resource, or as engendered terrain?
Curated by Sara Garz贸n, Ameli M. Klein and Sabina Oroshi of the international curatorial association Collective Rewilding, the exhibition brings together works by Iman Datoo (UK), Aksiniya Peycheva (Bulgaria), Pedro Hurpia (Brasil), Marina Camargo (Brasil), Paula K枚nig (DE), Hara Shin (DE), Luka Ked啪o (HR), Monika Gabriela Dorniak (DE), Latent Community Collective (Greece), Mari Fraga (Brasil), Hanne Van Dyck (BE), Yiannis Pappas (Greece), Matheous da Rocha Montanari (Brasil) & Deborah Mora (Italy).
