tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92135815244229149732024-03-19T05:47:13.063-07:00Wander-yUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-47099581875241132022015-07-22T18:35:00.001-07:002015-07-22T18:44:25.298-07:00The Map of Melbourne Firsts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The map of places passes, the reality of paper tears.<br />
- Laura Riding, The Map of Places, 1927<br />
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Last year, when Lisa & I were throwing around ideas for creative mapping projects, we considered how we had presented data in the past, and all the digital possibilities. We are place-centric, forever fascinated with how environment influences behaviour, and how even places that no longer exist can become storehouses for memories. We decided to make a sound map that featured strangers talking around the theme of 'firsts'. We are used to working with narrative, and knew there would be a textual element, but we were also excited at the different textures and layers that would come through using sound. The idea was that we would go into the city and make field recordings, but also ask strangers questions and try and coax 'illuminations'. The resultant map features a diverse range of people telling story snippets that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes revelatory, sometimes ordinary. For the project we had five young artists participating, significant support from Signal - especially in the realm of Sound tech - and four weeks with which to do it.You can find the finished map at the link below. Just click on a marker to either hear, see or read a Melbourne first:<br />
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<a href="http://www.mapmelbournefirsts.com.au/">www.mapmelbournefirsts.com.au</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-6443828781856328302015-06-15T19:46:00.000-07:002015-06-15T19:46:11.204-07:00Flash fiction techniques<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Flash Fiction techniques:<br />
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From <a href="https://mastersreview.com/flash-fiction-techniques-part-2/">The Masters Review</a> blog:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s learning to play the violin.” That’s what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-82982982895602497792015-06-05T02:12:00.002-07:002015-06-05T02:26:51.668-07:00Map examples - sound & narrative - links<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-64869581495977533492015-05-30T18:33:00.002-07:002015-05-30T18:33:25.787-07:00Map of Melbourne Firsts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Imagine a map of Melbourne where the landmarks are memories, anecdotes, sound bites and images. How would you shape and present this data?</div>
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For the Map of Melbourne Firsts you will create a digital map using personal and public experiences of first Melbourne encounters through text, art and voice. The project provides opportunities to develop your writing, interviewing and sound editing skills.</div>
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Work with artists Simmone Howell and Lisa Donofrio to discover social cartography, discovery, happenstance and city stories.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-44251636118781195532015-03-18T15:57:00.000-07:002015-03-18T16:01:19.464-07:00The Art of Disaster - An Interview with Klare Lanson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">More than halfway up the wall of Klare Lanson’s hallway she’s drawn a horizontal line and the words, THIS IS THE FLOODLINE. “I put it there for tradies. Their first question is always How high did the water come?” Lanson says with a wry laugh. We’re having cups of tea on her porch to the dulcet sounds of Auskick. In the distance is leafy, tree-lined Barker’s Creek. It’s small, as creeks go, but looks can be deceptive. In 2011, during four days of unreasonable rain, the drains collapsed and Barker’s Creek finally overflowed, transforming the football field and the lower section of the street into a muddy lake. Klare Lanson was at home with her young son, moving from anxiety to fear as the rain kept coming. They survived the flood physically, but the emotional repercussions have been profound. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“I couldn't find anywhere in Melbourne to rent that was affordable and conducive to bringing up a child. If I'm going to live in a city I want to live in the <i>city</i> - I have a bit of a fear of outer suburbia and the impact it would have on my son's upbringing. Too much Bertrand Russell perhaps. I was looking for a place that values the same things I do. Friends. Space. Small schools.” </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Lanson was settled by the time of the flood, but her experience of country life is now divided into before and after. In the first wave of interviews she undertook for #wanderingcloud, the mark on the wall became something else again: “The first thing people wanted to do was show me their floodlines: immediate connection.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>Lanson’s first post-flood production was <a href="https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/audio-overland-ii/poem-klare-lanson/">The Cloud Mistress in 2012</a>. The work incorporated a soundscape using field recordings, the artist responding to a radio interview, audience storytelling and excerpts from an 1897 letter in The Argus regarding a Castlemaine flood. Over the personal experience was layered a community’s experience, a sense of place and history, the small ‘i’ of the artist in the storm of the world.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WanderingCloud2013">#wanderingcloud</a> had its first life in 2013 at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal. The project grew to incorporate the communities around it. The artist interviewed people from satellite towns about their flood memories: </span>“The interview process was incredible and very rewarding. Most of the interviewees were happy to talk about their flood experiences, especially when they understood that I too was devastated by the 2011 flood event. The like mindedness, the stories they shared, the different (sometimes indifferent) experiences I recorded, led me on an amazing journey of sound recordings and imagery. The need for silence in the aftermath was also there, sometimes a voice in itself.”</div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>#wanderingcloud is local and locative, it explores the collective experience of communities who have been through a traumatic event.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“There was so much sadness and anger. It was a huge challenge as an artist to find the beauty within. I am thankful of my time spent with all the people who shared their stories, there wouldn't be a #wanderingcloud project without them.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>The cloud is building. The upcoming performance at Castlemaine’s Woollen Mills includes artists from near (Neil Boyack, Jacques Soddell and Andree Cozens) and far (Brisbane based Clocked Out Duo). There is a collaborative site installation by designer Zoe Volpato and performance art by Kathrin Ward. The site itself has endured its own share of disaster - three fires have been noted in its history. It’s located alongside Barker’s Creek, like a cosmic wink to the cyclical nature of life.</span></div>
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Lanson cites as her inspiration “artists who understand working across platforms, whose work is based on spoken word and who move across mediums.” Miranda July, Bjork and Laurie Anderson, as well as artists and academics working in the field of location media practice like Larissa Hjorth. </div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>“I was affected by a Richard Long exhibition in London in the early 90s, whose meditative sculptural walks all over the world are seminal. I sometimes think of those itinerant poets in the Renaissance era who preceded performance art, roaming and wandering about trying to make a living.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>The timing of the project is fortuitous. The draft of the flood</span><span class="s2"> management plan for Castlemaine has just been made available for public comment. A levee wall is proposed for Barker’s Creek and Lanson expects community input to be considerable. </span><span class="s1">“There are questions about engineering and aesthetic inconsistencies that need to be answered. I’ve been involved in a few projects that are timed with broader community issues. The process involved in creative practice is seminal during any kind of development of people and place. Art is change.” </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>But for now, the creek trickles on unguarded, clouds drift in the blue sky, the footy horn sounds and kid’s feet clomp on the green.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>I’m still thinking about the floodline. Lanson’s graffito is also symbolic: as a reminder of the capriciousness of Mother Nature, a warning not to get too comfortable. It’s a mark of endurance, a record, like a child’s height charted on the side of the door, and it’s a story that rings with the echoes of stories past.</span><br />
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Yesterday we had a rather frantic time putting it all together. The exhibition is in the niche cabinets at the City Library - there are drawings, photos, assemblages, cut-outs, cut-ups and a teapot. Also included is out map of (mostly) true Melbourne stories. </div>
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The exhibition will be up until the end of September, and the zine until all the copies get taken away. You can find it at the <a href="http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/MelbourneLibraryService/FindUs/Pages/CityLibraryLocation.aspx">City Library</a>, <a href="http://www.stickyinstitute.com/">Sticky</a> and <a href="http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/signal/Pages/Signal.aspx">Signal</a>. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-82687087906251776572014-09-06T03:16:00.000-07:002014-09-06T03:16:14.042-07:00Palimpsest 4 - Books, Nouns, Buildings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week we meandered to the City Library to check out their niche cabinets for the exhibition. There are lots of nooks and crannies and the library has a lively buzz and everyman feeling. What would we do without libraries?! We each selected a book from their Melbourne section and chose a picture to write a postcard scene/poem.<br />
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The book I found selected was Ola Cohn's Fairies Tree. But I was too absorbed in it to write from it so that will have to come later. The lines I found most arresting:<br />
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"It is believed a magpie that lived in its branches carried a lit cigarette there, and so started the blaze soon to light up the sky ..."<br />
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Following on from last week's homework - to write about our days in nouns - we each chose three nouns, put them in a pot and then attempted to write something that incorporated all three. There was some complaint of the sameness of our days, and I think from now on I'm going to stretch my brain to find the most interesting noun of my day (surely there must be one) ...<br />
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My three words were: <b>container, tunnel</b> and <b>children</b>.<br />
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"I promised I would not show them or tell people. But, but, but. You would not think they would be so hard to look after. I grew to hate their little faces, their high, pinging voices..."<br />
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The homework was to select a building - either from the lovely Collins St Sketchbook or from our own wanderings and create a story from it.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-2117014481768973242014-08-25T04:01:00.003-07:002014-08-25T04:01:42.126-07:00Palimpsest 3 - Writing from photography/poetry with restrictions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-3648437258377291742014-08-20T04:18:00.001-07:002014-08-20T04:23:01.931-07:00Palimpsest 2 - State Library Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was exciting. It was after hours! The lovely Tim Hogan took us on a Mythish Melbourne-ised personal tour of the State Library of Victoria's collections. We saw cannonballs and muskets, read the diary entries of 'mashing' 'smooging' gal-about-town May Stewart, learned the story behind the acquisition of Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter and went behind the scenes to see (but not always touch) some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realia_(library_science)">realia </a>including stabby hat-pins, the illustrated diary of Edward Snell, the first newspaper published in Melbourne, a Gunner's helmet and the compass used to find Burke and Wills. (Lisa subsequently found out that the 'term' Berk does not derive from the aforementioned packhorse explorer.) We were also intrigued to learn about <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/drysdale-anne-2000">Anne Drysdale and Caroline Newcomb</a>, who sustained a farm without men! And we were entertained by Garryowen's Chronicles of Early Melbourne. To finish the visit Tim talked us through how to research using the Library collections. I went home with the story-hum in my head.<br />
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<a href="http://fellowfrockery.tumblr.com/">Kaz Cooke's blog</a> (Kaz Cooke is a creative fellow of the State Library blogging about frockery and finery from the collections.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-62220251467052750452014-08-15T17:52:00.001-07:002014-08-15T17:52:21.049-07:00Palimpsest 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Palimpsest - Re-Writing The City is a short course/collaboration facilitated by Simmone Howell and Lisa D'Onofrio via Signal Youth Arts.</b><br />
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Seven intrepid participants climbed the Signal stairs on August 6 at 5pm to find out about Palimpsest. This is Lisa and my third Signal project (following from 2012's Creative Journalling and 2013's Mapping Melbourne) - and we're thrilled to have returnees and new participants. As always our aim is to explore 'place' through text, illustration and collage, and find a collaborative way to present our material. I love the creative hum that happens when the group 'clicks'. For the first class, we introduced ourselves, did a version of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse">Exquisite Corpse</a> and talked about words and layering, how stories are built, the human desire to put form to everything we encounter. We discussed the criteria of urban legends (that it happened to you or someone you know, that it's not SO unbelievable, the element of horror, the cautionary tale), and shared our own. We went for a brief wander down to the site of Harry Houdini's Queen's Bridge leap. When we returned to Signal we did some writing. Finally, we had a look at some pages of old copies of The Truth, The Trading Post and The Age - searching for stories within - and each participant took a page home to work on something until next we met.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hat-archive.com/Houdini2.htm">Houdini's dive into the Yarra</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-3020551829951972382014-08-15T17:23:00.002-07:002014-08-15T18:03:07.085-07:00Palimpsest - Re-writing the City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>PALIMPSEST - RE-WRITING THE CITY</b><br />
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<span class="s1">A city is built from stories. Humans are in a continual process of documenting, discovering and rewriting the layers of the city. Stories can be found in newspapers, or tagged on lane-way walls or whispered into the ether only to rise again as urban myths. Over six weeks, participants will create stories from stories. We will ‘read the city’ and research Melbourne’s past and present using the State Library’s collection. Then we will build on what we’ve found to make our own myths and stories. Creative responses from Palimpsest will be exhibited around the city and published in a zine.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-3650831059893244202013-06-13T23:04:00.003-07:002013-06-13T23:06:15.693-07:00Mapping (Me)lbourne Final Map <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Check the link <a href="http://imgur.com/a/4BzIC">here</a> to see our final map<br />
There's a review of the project by one of our ace participants Freya Alexander <a href="http://signalarts.tumblr.com/post/52830467422/mapping-me-lbourne-explored-the-axis-between">here</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-17148209856932730212013-06-04T23:37:00.000-07:002013-06-05T01:51:53.536-07:00Let's Go GinkooWonderful haiku walk and workshop on Sunday June 3rd as part of the Emerging Writers Festival.<br />
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Branches touch the ground<br />
Carpet of leaves under oak<br />
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Leaves sparkle with light on fire<br />
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The smell of fresh grass<br />
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Damp dark tree branches<br />
Rotting Autum leaf<br />
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Leaf melange, plump trunks<br />
Bush survival, stalks at sharp angles<br />
Asphalt clumps.<br />
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Sodden bluestone bricks<br />
Demarcate the tenuous<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-19865850850002023492013-05-21T20:55:00.001-07:002013-05-21T20:56:09.419-07:00Flinders Street Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been exploring <a href="http://www.flindersstreetstation.com/default.html">this website</a> - about The Flinders Street Station project and the book Under the Facade by Jenny Davies. It does seem crazy that the government won't throw some $ at the station and restore it to something. It's been interesting to watch the slow transformation of Spencer St Station into Southern Cross. But I wonder about all the ghost space at Flinders St Station - imagine if it was used for something truly benevolent. Meanwhile here is an article about the project and the stories, always the stories: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/where-the-city-finds-its-way-20100723-10oo0.html">http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/where-the-city-finds-its-way-20100723-10oo0.html</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-70318736446023339422013-05-20T05:49:00.003-07:002013-05-20T05:49:52.307-07:00Collected ephemeraThis is another letter which was received back as part of the envelope project, from an envelope left at the Flinders St photobooth.<br />
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Found on Flinders St<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8757656492/" title="Mapping Melbourne found #3 by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Mapping Melbourne found #3" height="308" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8114/8757656492_d3226a2ef4.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
Found near St Paul's Cathedral<br />
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Found on Degraves St<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8756528753/" title="Mapping Melbourne found #1 by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Mapping Melbourne found #1" height="302" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8560/8756528753_98ac876289.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
Found on Flinders Lane<br />
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Found on the ground near the Flinders St photoboothsGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388661309403802084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-91169124347015861692013-05-19T19:29:00.000-07:002013-05-19T19:29:04.442-07:00Wandering into print<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>An article on the ideas behind Mapping (Me)lbourne was printed in Saturday's Age</b>:</div>
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Once upon a time in London someone drew a map for me - directions to a pub with a roaring fire (it was winter, the fire was crucial). He noted the surrounding streets and made a waypoint of the junction of logs and flames, all on the back of a till receipt. The pub no longer exists but the map remains, as a souvenir and as a memory portal that whisks me back to a unique time and feeling whenever I look at it. That scrap of paper holds for me as much story as a novel: place, character, feeling - it's all there.</div>
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Human beings have always drawn maps - on cave walls and clay tablets and animal skins, on parchment and silk, on the backs of hands and beer coasters. The first maps of the world relied in some part on guesswork: what Ptolemy didn't know, he theorised into being. Now that the civilised world has been well and truly charted, we find ourselves mapping territories that are abstract or personal or imaginary.</div>
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It is early May in Melbourne, 5.30pm. Daylight savings has kicked in. The air smells of rain and the lights of the city are starting to blink their code into the encroaching darkness.</div>
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Upstairs at Signal, to the soundtrack of trains clanking and heaving at Flinders Street Station, a group of people have come together to make a map that has something more than map-ness: a map with possibilities and poetry, a collaborative personal object for public consumption, an invitation, if you will.</div>
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Lisa D'Onofrio and I conceived of Mapping (Me)lbourne as a result of being walkers and writers and map-fanciers. We were inspired by community mapping projects, such as Christian Nold's ''bio-mapping''. Nold created a device that measures the wearer's galvanic skin response, which indicates arousal in conjunction with geographical location. His Greenwich Emotion Map plots human interaction (arguments, kisses) alongside rubbish, congestion and promises of an eco-conscious future. Nold asks: ''Will seeing other people's experiences allow us to engage differently with our environment?''</div>
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Lisa and I wanted to create a project that used the city as the source and the body as the dowser. The idea was to gather a group of people, undertake urban wanderings and remap a corner of the city with words and images and things found along the way.</div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8719307071/" title="The Envelope Project by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="The Envelope Project" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/8719307071_292ce10cd9.jpg" width="376" /></a>
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From an envelope left in the elevator of the Nicholas Building<br />
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From an envelope left in the photobooth at Flinders St Station, 29th April 2013<br />
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From an envelope left in the arcade that joins Centre Place and Collins St<br />
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From an envelope left at the door of Sticky Institute, Campbell Arcade<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8720429672/" title="The Envelope Project by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="The Envelope Project" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8720429672_ce8e2812c1.jpg" width="376" /></a><br />
From an envelope left in the photobooth at Flinders St Station, 1st May 2013<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-10056277113779214192013-05-04T04:38:00.002-07:002013-05-04T04:38:42.832-07:00Katie Davis - Neighborhood Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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- Katie Davis, Memory Map (from You Are Here - Personal Geographies by Katharine Harmon)<br />
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Really love these assemblages by UK artist <a href="http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=51">Chris Kenny</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-6102318767388239062013-05-02T06:39:00.000-07:002013-05-02T06:39:34.876-07:00Georgia's photographs These are some of the images I have taken over the last couple of weeks on the route of our map.<br />
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29th April 2013:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8702015896/" title="View from the Nicholas Building by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="View from the Nicholas Building" height="333" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8542/8702015896_557860a70d.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<i>View from the Nicholas Building stairwell</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8700678935/" title="#mappingmelbourne by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="#mappingmelbourne" height="392" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8394/8700678935_c637d6c881.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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<i>The Nicholas Building - bathroom</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8692638654/" title="The Nicholas Building by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="The Nicholas Building" height="333" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8534/8692638654_10fc14203e.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<i>The Nicholas Building - hallway</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8701943524/" title="word collage by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="word collage" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8127/8701943524_77d9cd89a4_z.jpg" width="424" /></a><br />
<i>Collage of words photographed on the route</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8700607901/" title="#mappingmelbourne by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="#mappingmelbourne" height="500" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8700607901_6d36d46eac.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<i>Mail project envelopes</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8700612421/" title="instagram by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="instagram" height="500" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8122/8700612421_6eeefcf166.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<i>Mail project envelopes</i><br />
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1st May 2013:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8701804136/" title="#mappingmelbourne by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="#mappingmelbourne" height="375" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8401/8701804136_baefd68d8b.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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The Yarra River at 5:51pm<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8701850804/" title="Photobooth, Flinders St Station by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Photobooth, Flinders St Station" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8395/8701850804_bbb9a51b39_z.jpg" width="469" /></a><br />
<i>Photo booth, Flinders St Station</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8700725301/" title="Photobooth, Flinders St Station by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Photobooth, Flinders St Station" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8113/8700725301_6938a92d1b_z.jpg" width="441" /></a><br />
<i>Photo booth, Flinders St Station</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8701850092/" title="Flinders Lane by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Flinders Lane" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8535/8701850092_823b1a5321_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<i>Windshield, Flinders Lane</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiahillebrand/8700724527/" title="Centre place by Georgia Hillebrand, on Flickr"><img alt="Centre place" height="366" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8131/8700724527_f4f9ae72dc.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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<i>Wall, Centre Place</i><br />
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<br />Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388661309403802084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-67948947741389730202013-05-02T02:09:00.001-07:002013-05-02T02:10:25.519-07:00Images from the Walk-in-progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-42561610466054454052013-04-29T22:05:00.001-07:002013-05-02T01:42:11.401-07:00Mapping (Me)lbourne Week 2 individual writing/collaborative poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At Flinders St station I<o:p></o:p></div>
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jump over the ticket barrier <o:p></o:p></div>
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without glancing around<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I wait<o:p></o:p></div>
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a man appears,<o:p></o:p></div>
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with him a small child<o:p></o:p></div>
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who holds a <o:p></o:p></div>
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bright, purple balloon<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Outside my blinkers <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>two men are bleeding</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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A woman paces anxiously<o:p></o:p></div>
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screeching into her mobile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The rest is the quiet hum and shuffle<o:p></o:p></div>
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of people in transit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>What they order at the
food stores…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>How they have their
coffees…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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At Flinders St station <o:p></o:p></div>
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I saw a bride cry<o:p></o:p></div>
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in the toilets<o:p></o:p></div>
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The balloon began to <o:p></o:p></div>
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detach and fly from
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and enter the crowded atmosphere<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A funny rhythm, a
funny dance,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>rusting residue from
people’s shoes<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I long to twirl<o:p></o:p></div>
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in the ballroom above<o:p></o:p></div>
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At Flinders St station, I wait<o:p></o:p></div>
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and sometimes, I run.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9213581524422914973.post-34283054962749115282013-04-29T06:28:00.000-07:002013-04-29T06:28:55.170-07:00Memory Maps Project: University of Essex and V&A<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica, arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">"A new genre of literature has been emerging strongly in recent years. It doesn't belong automatically on any particular shelf in a bookshop, or to a particular category in a library catalogue. Writers working in this vein are exploring people and places and the relations between them, and in order to do so they combine fiction, history, traveller's tales, autobiography, anecdote, aesthetics, antiquarianism, conversation, and memoir. Mapping memories involves listening in to other people's ghosts as well as your own. Dérive - the French for drift - characterizes this approach, rather than more purposeful terms like quest or research, though memory maps demand processes of investigation and endless curiosity and an impulse towards wonder. Memory mapping grows out of daydreaming, reverie, and the unbidden images that come up in the mind. This is writing as fugue, as enigma variations, as rapporteur of what Antonio Damasio has called 'the movie-in-the-brain', that is, the phantasmic flow of consciousness. A dériveur arrives at 'astonishment upon the terrain of familiarity,' writes Robert Macfarlane, and becomes 'more sensitive to the hidden histories and encrypted events of the city' - or the country."</span><br />
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From <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/memory-maps-about-the-project/">here</a></div>
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