Urban Culture Project – Kansas City January 18-March

  

Locate | Navigate: exercises in mapping , curated by Charlotte Street Foundation Associate DirectorKate Hackman, is a two-part exhibition project including drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography,installation-, audio-, video-, web- and performance-based work by diverse local, national, and international artists. Taking a broad definition of “map” as a starting point, the exhibitions explore the convergence of artmaking and mapmaking through the presentation of contemporary artworks that”map” specific sets of information from explicitly subjective points of view. As a whole, locate |navigate highlights widely varied, individualistic approaches to positing, investigating, and representing relationships among particular elements of interest, from places to objects, ideas, actions, and points intime. Pushing the parameters of what might be considered a map, the project further aims to encourage expansive approaches and attitudes toward exploring and examining our surroundings, and to suggest alternative methods for envisioning and depicting such terrains.