An Atlas of Radical Cartography
An Atlas of Radical Cartography is:
A) a book
b) a smart collection of maps and essays
c) a traveling exhibition
Organized by Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel, the Atlas is all three. The book contains a smart collection of essays about how the political power inherent in mapping is played out in realtime, as well as a great collection of fold out maps that perform a sort of reclamation of the map form. The contributors come to the issue from a range of backgrounds, architects, artists, designers, activities, the list goes on. They also offer an equal diversity of aesthetic responses, many are striking vector graphics, some poetic and textual, some hand-drawn, all beautifully offset-printed.
I was fortunate enough to see this work displayed in it’s exhibition mode (triple-changer transformer, anyone?) at BASEKAMP, a Philadelphia based collective/arts/discourse space on a night when Lize and Alexis were on hand to provide a tour of the work. This was useful since most of the work is very context specific and I hadn’t yet read the collection of essays in the book.
In their own words:
An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. The map is inherently political– and the contributions to this book wear their politics on their sleeves.
Latino/a America: A Geophilosophy for Wanderers map by Pedro Lasch
An Atlas of Radical Cartography provides a critical foundation for an area of work that bridges art/design, cartography/geography, and activism. The maps and essays in this book provoke new understandings of networks and representations of power and its effects on people and places. These new perceptions of the world are the prerequisites of social change.
MAPS | An Architektur | the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) | Ashley Hunt | Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R | Pedro Lasch | Lize Mogel | Trevor Paglen & John Emerson | Brooke Singer | Jane Tsong | Unnayan
ESSAYS | Kolya Abramsky | Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian Cobarrubias | Alejandro De Acosta | Avery F. Gordon | Institute for Applied Autonomy | Sarah Lewison | Jenny Price, Jane Tsong, DJ Waldie, Ellen Sollod, Paul S. Kibel | Heather Rogers | Jai Sen | Visible Collective & Trevor Paglen
EDITORS | Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat
From South to North by Lize Mogel
An Atlas of Radical Cartography is published by The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press and distributed by D.A.P.
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