In conjunction with work about the environmental impacts of the Anthropocene, artists’ publications also address the consequences of political geographies on the physical world. Starting from the premise that many problems are exacerbated by the division of the world by artificial or historical boundaries, the artists featured here create alternative maps in their efforts to imagine solutions.
Ed. Lize Mogel, et al.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, c2007
Produced to accompany a traveling exhibition, An Atlas of Radical Cartography collects work by ten artists challenging the idea of maps as neutral, objective artifacts. “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.” (Quotation from the publisher’s website.)
UNC Library Catalog: https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb5802871
Shahana Rajani, et al.
Exhausted Geographies
[Karachi?]: Publisher not identified. [2015]
Exhausted Geographies is an artists’ publishing group in Karachi, Pakistan, re-envisioning how cities of the global south are represented. “The project emerges from our desire to engage with the city beyond the ubiquitous tropes… of violence and incoherence it has been subject to. Each volume attempts to rethink current representations of Karachi while exploring a range of topics to provide new insights into the social, spatial, and discursive fabric of the city.” (Quotation from the publisher’s website.)
Purchased using funds from the Boone Domestic Architecture Endowment.
UNC Library Catalog: https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb8488314