Karl Cronin's "Human Geography" and Picture Tour on Ikea Water Taxi
Yesterday evening I attended Karl Cronin's "Human Geography and the Practice of Presence" program in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Karl is an iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence. iLand is an interdisciplinary arts project created by Jennifer Monson.
Below you'll find pictures of my trip on the Ikea taxi boat that I took from the East River just south of Wall Street to Red Hook. The weather was spectacular and the program was fun and engaging. As you'll see below I only have a few performance pictures of Karl. I'm not usually big on interrupting performances with lots of pictures, but I do wish I at least took a couple of pictures of Maggie Bennett who also performed.
Karl described last night's program:
An evening of movement and experiences and experiments -- through a series of guided practices led by the collaborators, participants will have the opportunity to explore different ways of relating to space using their kinetic experience as a starting point.
And a summary of this research project:
The collaborators will conduct movement research based on two leading theories from the field of Human Geography: Action Network Theory (ANT) and Non-Representational Theory. These two theories have been widely debated within the field of geography, and in their own ways postulate a manner of being in space that involves interacting directly with one's environment--moving beyond layers of semiotics and abstracted representations.
I'll probably be meeting with Karl next week and I'll write more about last night's program and the focus of his project about human mapping.
You can click on each of the following pictures to see larger images:
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Doug Fox on July 11, 2008 8:45 AM
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