An anti-atlas of lived borders: sharing migrant-cartographers’ gaze. Asylum-seekers, refugees, researchers and NGO workers have met twice a week, in Grenoble, France, since may 2013, to co-produce sensitive and participatory maps. These cartographies figure memory fragments, traces of travelling and border-crossing experiences which Grenoble asylum seekers and refugees have lived through.
The means of cartographic expression are multiple, between art and science: maps drawn on paper based on the discussion of a common legend, mental maps embroidered after having been drawn on fabrics, realization of argile objects and maps, sound mapping. The creativity of these maps, figuring the sensitive experience of migrations and border-crossings, constitutes an important line of the project implementation. The aim is to figure and share social experiences, to create modes of encounters, to let new visualizations emerge, and to participate to the political and public debate on migrations and borders. http://alturl.com/f8vhq -- ---> A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
