Site-Determined Artwork: Mapping Cultural and Environmental Landscapes for Social and Political Change

• In Event: 66.080 - Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 66.080-11 - Mapping Arts-Based Educational Research Across Contexts

Abstract

This paper explores what cultural production can bring to current issues around contested spaces and how art can offer alternate perspectives - ones that embrace the complex ways in which humans encounter the world around them while placing emphasis on human agency (Sullivan, 2006). Research findings from an on-going federally funded research/creation project entitled “Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures” will be examined in order to demonstrate how acts of sharing and creating knowledge through site determined artwork has implications for social and political change. More specifically, it considers how artistic practice, situated within cybercartography (Pyne & Taylor, 2012) produces a radical form of counter-mapping that remains inclusive to multiple perspectives and knowledge, lived experience, and critical thought.

Author

• Ruth S. Beer, Emily Carr University of Art + Design