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About the Exhibition
Opening reception: January 16, 2009, 6 pm
An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working
with "radical cartography"—a practice that
uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is
part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and
activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives
in the exhibition play with cartographic convention—geographic
shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views— in order
to take on issues from globalization to garbage.
While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological
and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional
aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its
function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by
the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice
within their own diverse practices.
Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social
effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center
for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage
the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's
drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed;
and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition
flights.
Participating artists are:
An Architektur
the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Jacqueline Goss
Ashley Hunt
Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R
Invisible 5
Pedro Lasch
Lize Mogel
Trevor Paglen & John Emerson
Brooke Singer
Jane Tsong
Unnayan
An Atlas is organized by artists Lize Mogel and
Alexis Bhagat. It is a companion exhibition to the publication,
"An Atlas of Radical Cartography," (2007, Journal
of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles.) For more information,
please visit
www.an-atlas.com/exhibition.htm
An Atlas is made possible in part by a grant from
the LEF Foundation.
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