Mapping Power in the City: Feb 20

Mapping Power in the City:
Lize Mogel, Alexis Bhagat, and Elise Youn
Wednesday, February 20, 1:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Museum as Hub Space, 5th Floor

Artists and cartographers Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat lead an informal conversation about the use of mapping in the cultural sphere, examining several of the maps in their recent collaborative project, An Atlas of Radical Cartography, a collection of ten maps and ten essays addressing social issues from globalization to garbage collection, surveillance to extraordinary rendition, statelessness to visibility, deportation to migration. It pairs artists, architects, and designers with writers to explore the possibilities of the map as a tool of political agency. The discussion will focus on how mapping can be used to define the borders of conflict, contestation, and power between communities in a specific geographic area, as well as how it can alternatively be used to rethink, resist, or subvert these same borders.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/142