Mapping Spectral Traces Events: 2012
17-20 Oct 2012 |
shadows traces undercurrents: A series of events around Minnesota/St Paul and a conference held at the University of Minnesota. 2012 is the 150th anniversary of the US-Dakota War and the largest mass execution in US history when 38 Dakota were hanged in Mankato. A Dakota Place is an innovative event honoring Dakota homeland. It convened the MST network, along with invited artists, scholars, students, activists, and members of public organizations (Minnesota Historical Society, National Park Service, public arts groups and city designers/planners) to listen to Dakota voices express relationship to homeland. A Dakota Place was held at Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum’s Ruins Courtyard, home to "Cloudy Waters" - an audio installation by Mona Smith - that reveals new layers of experience for audiences about the Dakota and the Mississippi River. Dakota elders and Dakota artists reflect on issues of Dakota past and present, and why place matters. Presentations and performances on related ideas from a variety of perspectives formed part of MST VI. |
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19-21 April 2012 |
'MSTV/Galway Dance Festival: Body/Space/Memory', international symposium, dance festival, and exhibition, Galway, Ireland. Host Institution: Ómós Áite, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland Galway, the Galway Dance Festival, and the Space&Place Research Collaborative, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Multiple venues for the dance festival and community-based art projects, including the Black Box Theatre in Galway, and excursions to/in Sliabh Bán and An Spidéal, Connemara Gaeltacht, County Galway. Organized by Nessa Cronin, Ríonach Ní Néill, Tim Collins, and Karen E. Till. |
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February 2012 |
Art and Geography paper panels, with related exhibition and field excursion in New York. Christine Bauemler, Talya Chalef, Margaret Cogswell, Gülgün Kayim, Rebecca Krinke, and Judith Tucker received Association of American Geographers Enhancement Grants to discuss their recent work in paper panels on: Mappings I: Haunted Landscapes and Acts of Viewing; Mappings II: Embodied Memory, Everyday Life, and the City; and Interventions and Embeddedness: Art Practice and Environmental Discourse. The panels were organized by Karen E. Till. Gerry Kearns and Karen E. Till also presented papers in a Capital Cities panel. Karen E. Till discussed MST activities in a panel on Curating Exhibitions. The annual AAG conference was held in New York. See: http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting for more information. |
