Section: Projects / GenderArtNet /

Saturday 7 May 2011 17:00-18:30 - Wednesday 11 May 2011 18:00-20:00

Visualizing Transnationalism, presentations.

Cluj Napoca, Romania Casa Tranzit, str. Bariţiu (Malom utca) nr. 16 · Bologna, Italia Sala Borsa, Atelier Urban Center, Piazza Nettuno 3

A grid divides the map in eight regions. Each region has a label: “Ornamental”, “Geolyrical”, “Taxonomical”, “Afraid of tomorrow”, “Fermentational”, “Miraculous”, “Exobotanical”, “The end of the world”. On the background, a deconstructed street network of CLuj-Napoca. In the tension between the grid labels and the street labyrinth, icons and text fragments are looking for affinities, attract and repulse each other.

The GenderArtNet’s team (Maria Ptqk and Nicolas Malevé) will present the map made with the participants of the workshop Visualizing Transnationalism (Transeuropa Festival) and discuss feminist anti-methods to cartography.

GenderArtNet

GenderArtNet is an experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary Europe. GenderArtNet’s primary aim is to thematically link the various existing online resources of feminist and queer artists, projects and (...)