The Knowledge - Land of Achievement

Land of Wisdom [ southern detail of the Croydon Map]

Coupling the grammar of cartography with elements from the Proust Questionnaire entitled "The Knowledge : Land of Wisdom & Land of Achievement", Agnes Poitevin-Navarre explores notions of identity and expectations. You can see more of her work at http://www.cushionculture.com/.

Not all maps welcomed! Entropa map of EU.

EU map installed in Brussels controversy:  www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7827738.stm

Artist, curator, writer Lize Mogel (work in Rad Carto)

Area of Detail,-2008 is a work by Lize Mogel where she transformed the map of the world (as provided by the United Nations) into a flat plane representation of the world. The work explores the issues arising from the politics of such an act and how they impact interpretation. As she says in her description someone is always on top. You can see more of her work here: http://www.publicgreen.com/

an Atlas of Radical Cartography

For those of you who actually find this blog, I found this great book that brings cartography, social activism and creativity together. It's also an exhibition touring the USA. Link http://www.an-atlas.com/.

Mapping Language with artist Agnes Poitevin-Navarre

Artist Agnes Poitevin-Navarre worked with college students to explore the mapping of dreams through the use of a limited number of pictograms. 2008

Body Mapping with artist Susan Stockwell

Artist Susan Stockwell explored body mapping as part of the Creative Mapping programme at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) with secondary school students in London. 2007

Mapping the Way...artist Jeremy Wood

Artist Jeremy Wood created this work with participants, it shows the GPS tracks of up to 28 people of the school grounds. 2007

After an even longer silence....Mapping Beyond

Mapping Beyond: A series of creative mapping projects at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts)

What has this blogger been up to with mapping? After a long silence I have decided to return to adding weekly creative mapping, creative cartography....anything art and maps related I come across. Our project Creative Mapping has just finished its second year in the making. We ended it with a series of exhibitions displaying the work of 5 projects in various educational settings working with artists in East London as part of Mapping Beyond. The following posts will be dedicated to the projects.

After a Long Silence-There is Much More to Share

Finland's Unnamed Islands Paper map fragments between microscope slides on aluminum shelves, 1 foot x 8 feet, 2000

Finland's Longest RoadPaper map fragment in glass petri dish, 3/4 x 6 x 6 inches, 2000

Coastal Merger, Reconstructed paper map, 15 x 30 inches, 1993

Dissection, manipulation, pathologies, and coastal mergers are but some of what Nina Katchadourian investigates in her maps. You can visit her at http://www.ninakatchadourian.com .
The delicate cut outs, the merging of spaces and creating new identities give her work an ethereal inquisitive appeal.

Josh Dorman

"I tilt these flattened lands into the frontal plane and then I seek routes and valleys back into space. I'm hoping for vertigo," Josh Dorman. To view more of his work please visit his site at: http://www.joshdorman.net/