Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map
Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map was a curatorial project materializing in multiple forms: an exhibition, a publication and a series of public programs. Co-curated by Adam Katz and myself, the exhibition was shown at g727 in downtown Los Angeles from May to July, 2009.
The artwork collected in Photocartographies is a survey of diverse perspectives projected along the horizon of our mappable world. The geography created by these artists is not only physical, but psycho-social. Although much of the work employs photography, there is a welcome uncertainty in these image-objects which reflect the shifting, contested and mysterious nature of our current cultural, environmental and built landscapes.
Artists include Anthony Auerbach, Katherine Bash, Noah Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Oraib Toukan, Angie Waller and Nikolas Schiller.
In Tattered Fragments of the Map, jointly edited by Adam Katz and myself, artists are joined by critics and scholars in a collection of essays that explore broader themes orbiting around the terrain of photographic and cartographic representation, image making and consumption, and the experience and interpretation of landscape. Rather than drawing conclusions from the work presented in the exhibition, this collection of texts is offered as a projection, a departure, a tangent, a gesture towards new territories for thought and inquiry.
Contributors include Bill Brown, William L. Fox, Elizabeth Dickinson, Herbert Gottfried, Gerardo Greene Gondi, Alex Haber, Simone Hancox, Anusha Venkataraman, artists Anthony Auerbach, Katherine Bash, Cris Benton, as well as Adam Katz and myself.
For more information about the exhibition, publication and their conceptual underpinnings, please visit the Photocartographies website: http://tatteredfragments.info. You may purchase the publication online at Lulu or at the Center for Land Use Interpretation Store, where it is a Recommended Book.
Also, here are some shots of the opening and the artworks, courtesy of Noah Beil.
