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OnlineOrganisation: Network Topographical Visual Media The Network Topographical Visual Media announce a series of online-workshops on the topic of Border Topographies: Objects, Performances, Infrastructures. The series is curated by Sasha Rossman. Six speakers will present work exploring how borders and border crossings come into view – or are enacted and performed – through a variety of media and practices. The talks will range historically from the early modern period to today and will examine a broad array of media including contemporary border infrastructures of migration in Greece, printed textiles ("indiennes"), maps of Louisiana, bells, board games, and digital mapping projects that track connections between French colonial sugar plantations and the 18th-century Parisian art market. Investigating the myriad ways in which borders and boundaries make themselves manifest necessarily involves examining how they are mediated through objects and practices. This series of talks invites participants to do just that, and to consider border topographies as part of an expansive media-scape.
25 Oct 2024, 16.00–17.30 (CET) - Emily Lake Kang, University of California, Berkeley - All Aboard? Play, Landscape, and Access in George Thistleton's Game 'Across the Continent' (1872)
29 Nov 2024, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Alaa Dia, Universität Basel - Counter-Mapping as Methodological Tools for Uncovering Hidden Spatial Narratives of Marginalized Populations on Borders
13 Dec 2024, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Alex Rodriguez Suarez, Barcelona - Travelling Bells: Sounds and Material Culture across Borders
31 Jan 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Adrian Anagnost, Tulane University, New Orleans - Mapping Wetlands in la Basse-Louisiane: Indigenous and European Cartographic Knowledges
28 Feb 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Meredith Martin, New York University - Remapping the "Paris" Art World in Haiti/Saint-Domingue
28 Mar 2025, 14.00–15.30 (CET) - Chonja Lee, Université de Neuchâtel - Topography as Ornament – Textile Stripes, Borders, and Maps
The workshops will take place online via zoom. If you would like to participate, please contact the network.
