Locate | Navigate

 

City Guides 

Three variations on the idea of intregrating stray dogs into an urban interplay between tourist, local inhabitants and a larger scope of the city. These prototypes form a dialogue around the possibility of mapping and linking the city to a subtle sequence of events and misadventures.   

 

City Guide

 

Locate | Navigate: exercises in mapping , curated by Charlotte Street Foundation Associate Director Kate 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.


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Eric von Robertson works under the conceptual framework of CARL – The Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure. As Robertson says, “CARL is a destination, a way of locating and rerouting the world around us, through a process of excursions and sculptural prototypes.” These prototypes are tossed into a series of field studies that travel between remote and urban landscapes – places where a large inflatable cushion of air is uncontrollably swept through the streets, to a pack of stray dogs sporting custom designed textiles that offer new routes and intersections for ‘City Guides’. As CARL’s excursions continue to meander through the Lost Caves of St Louis or across deserted islands in the Maldives, these places and misadventures become models in tourism and personally reflected souvenirs in the pursuit of recreation and leisure.

 

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