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exhibitions

Experimental Geography

  •  Experimental Geography
  •  Experimental Geography
  •  Experimental Geography
  •  Experimental Geography
  •  Experimental Geography

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The manifestations of “experimental geography” (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of buildings, and sound works capturing the buzz of electric waves on the power grid. In the hands of contemporary artists, the study of humanity’s engagement with the earth’s surface becomes a riddle best solved in experimental fashion. The exhibition presents a panoptic view of this new practice, through a wide range of mediums including sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography.

The approaches used by the artists featured in Experimental Geography range from the poetic to the empirical. The more pragmatic techniques include those used by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) in projects made with students and other non-art groups that aim to strengthen peoples’ roles as agents of change in their own environments. See, for example, their map intended to help longshoremen and truckers identify chokepoints in the cargo trade network. In their similarly empirical projects, the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), a research organization, examines the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface. CLUI embraces a multidisciplinary approach that forces a reading of the American landscape (such as the disfiguring effects of culling natural resources from the picturesque banks of the Hudson River), thereby refamiliarizing viewers with the overlooked details of their everyday experience.

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touring schedule

Museum London
London, Canada
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University
Sherbrooke, Canada
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

The James Gallery, The Graduate Center at CUNY
New York, NY, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

The Colby College Museum of Art
Waterville, ME, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
October 10, 2009 - January 1, 1970

The Albuquerque Museum
Albuquerque, NM, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Rochester Art Center
Rochester, MN, United States
July 2, 2009 - January 1, 1970

Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University
Greencastle, IN, United States
January 1, 1970 - February 12, 2008

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