Lecture
Counter Cartographies of Ambivalence
Imaginary Coordinates
Exhibition Preview Opening Program
Thursday, May 1
Opening reception 5:30-8 pm
Lecture at 6:30 pm in Feinberg Theater
This program is free, but reservations are recommended.
Call 312.322.1773
Distinguished scholar and author Irit Rogoff explores a wave of recent cartographic activity that makes visible the hidden relations between subjects and places, events and places, memories and places, and time lines and places. Mapping across and against political boundaries, these cartographies of geograhical ambivalence have made possible a set of new relational geographies in which disavowed histories, buried bodies, broken promises and the tangential relations of a desire for a place rather than the lived reality within it, are visualized.
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her works intersects critical, political, and contemporary artistic practices. She directed Translating the Image - Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts, an Arts & Humanities Research Council project of which two volumes will be published later this year, and is the author of Terra Infirma - Geography's Visual Culture, and a new book entitled Unbounded.