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Tag Archives: Tom Quinn Kumpf
Now Available The Exhibition Catalogue for “The Map is Not the Territory”
As the show is attracting and receiving more and more attentions I’d like to share few links as well as announce the exhibition catalogue. available on Amazon.
To learn more about the exhibit, visit our website here
http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/p21_gallery_presents_the_map_is_not_the_territory/
http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2015/06/considerations-of-the-map-is-not-the-territory-an-essay/
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Proud To be part of this show: a preview of The Map is Not the Territory at P21 in London
The Map is not the territory now showing in London at P21 Gallery
I am very honoured to announce that the Itinerant show curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagnar Painter is showing at P21 Gallery in London.
P21 gallery presents The Map is Not the Territory, looking at the relationships and commonalities in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization – not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. To understand history is the first step toward peace.
Press-release: http://www.p21.org.uk/AboutTheMapisNottheTerritory.aspx
The Exhibition continue 12 June 2015 – 25 July 2015 | Open Tuesday – Friday 12 – 6pm, Saturday 12 – 4pm, Wednesdays until 8pm
Location: 21 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD | Nearest underground: King’s Cross/St. Pancras and Euston Station | Tel: 020 7121 6190 | Web: p21.org.uk
The map is not the territory new website
Jennifer Heath is announcing:
Dear MAP artists, contributors and friends,
“The Map is Not the Territory” now has — drum roll, please! — a website, beautifully produced by Collin Heng-Patton.
Next MAP news will likely be about the catalogue.
MAP: THE whole show is on line
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY: SEE THE WHOLE SHOW ON LINE, HERE IS THE LINK TO THE GALLERY:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/16226355/The-Map-is-Not-the-Territory-Parallel-Paths
http://www.levantinecenter.org/arts/artists/map-not-territory-parallel-lives-palestinians-native-americans-irish
https://www.facebook.com/TheMapIsNotTheTerritory
https://independent.academia.edu/JenniferHeath/Posts
http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2013/08/meet-artists-from-map-show.html
Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, May 8-June 22, 2014
COMMENTS
* Amazing and profound. Great works and terrific idea. “Parallel Paths” displays and exposes not just the history of Palestinians, Native Americans & Irish, but also the history of human suffering & conditioning, from displacement to abandonment (?) to oppression. This exhibit is an opportunity for all & everyone to open their eyes to the horrors in our history & open theirs hearts & minds to bring those to an end.
–Unsigned
* A beautiful, profound, enlightening and moving exhibition. The links are delicately yet clearly drawn. The texts are (?) research and written and the artworks are richly varied and (?). I smiled much more than I expected to! I am Irish-American, so I was especially struck by Irish History Lesson 1 & 2, which evoke some of what “Irishness” feels like to me. “Flying Lesson #7 is sheer, surprising joy. An amazing exhibition.
—Signature unreadable
* As someone interested in history, seeing a real Palestinian passport issued by the British was amazing and of course sad. I wish I knew what happened to the owner of the passport and their families.
–Arielle Ziarty
The Map is not the territory in Los Angeles
Dear all,
Please join us to “The Map is not the Territory”, a nomadic group exhibition curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter now passing through L.A.
Many artists, including my self, are participating to this poignant investigation of the experience and concept of territory. For more info please see details below. Do pop by if you can and spread the word to the world.
Thank you
Claudia
https://www.facebook.com/TheMapIsNotTheTerritory
https://independent.academia.edu/JenniferHeath/Posts
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/map-not-territory-parallel-paths-palestinians-native-americans-irish
http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2013/08/meet-artists-from-map-show.html
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY:
Parallel Paths: Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish
Date/Time:
May 8, 2014 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Price:
Free to the public, contributions welcome
Where:
Inside/Outside Gallery
Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega & Fairfax
street parking
“The map is not the territory,” a phrase coined by Alfred Korzybski, is the lesser-known counterpart to Magritte’s charming “This is not a pipe.” Unlike “This is not a pipe”–an image that has been rendered safe by multiple reproductions and parodies, by now of little relevance unless you are an Art History major–the phrase “the map is not the territory” is charged with political and cultural meaning of the most subversive sort. This meaning inspires the upcoming exhibit at the Inside/Outside Gallery, conceived by by Jennifer Heath and co-curated by Heath and Dagmar Painter.
One land, divided by walls and nomenclature like “annexed,” “territory,” “Manifest Destiny,” until it is in bloody fragments. One people, divided by one thing, and then another, until they can barely recognize their own kin. Like blown dandelion seeds, people venturing out from their homeland, only to find themselves always looking backwards, and wondering how to retrace their steps. Such are the images and anxieties at the heart of The Map is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths: Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish.
In 66 works by 39 artists, The Map Is Not the Territory looks at relationships and commonalities in Palestinian, Native American, and Irish experiences of invasion, occupation, and colonization–not as novelty or polemic, but as history and current events. Although many peoples worldwide have suffered long and often brutal intrusions, Palestinians, Native Americans and the Irish have intersected for centuries in specific and often unusual ways. What are some of these intersections and how do contemporary artists examine and process them through their own lives and visions? The Map Is Not the Territory opened in 2013 at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds in Washington, D.C.–the first stop for this five-year traveling art exhibition, 2013-2018. See a Washington Post review of the show.
These artists explore the profound specific and unusual intersections between the three cultures with original paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, artist books, and films. They consider such topics as conflict, resistance, land, food, diaspora, identity, and persistence. The show is comprised of sixty-four unframed works on paper (and two media pieces). Most of the artists are Palestinian, Native American, and Irish and include leading artists with international reputations, such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Hani Zurob and Rita Duffy. Eight brief wall texts provide the threads to each culture’s struggles for human and civil rights.
CULTURAL SURVIVAL: THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY
The exhibit, THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY–PARALLEL PATHS : PALESTINIANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, IRISH, curated by Jennifer Heath and Dagmar Painter, is touring nationally and internationally in 2013-2018. This review primarily focuses on the Native American contributors to the traveling exhibition and highlights the engagement of Native American artists with socio-political issues, and how Native American aesthetics and social concerns relate to those of Irish and Palestinian heritage as expressed in this exhibit. A feature of this exhibition are the interconnections of being both a visual artist and an activist. It is not unusual for the non-Indigenous public to be informed about the vast array of American Indian arts and crafts, especially those that fall within traditional, tribal heritages. However, few viewers are aware of our contributions as professors, museum curators, and writers and the impact that this intellectual heritage has had on our development as visual artists/activists. Launched in Washington, DC in 2013 at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, traveling to San Francisco and other US cities and later going abroad to Dublin, Ireland and other countries, the show will show a broad global audience how visual art can provide aesthetic pleasure while simultaneously confronting social justice issues impacting Indigenous Peoples in North and Central America, Middle Eastern and North African populations, and the Irish.
These artists have diverse perspectives on the connections between visual art and social justice activism. Focusing on 21st century art practices, their interests include; using video and other new technologies to bridge crucial differences across cultures; resistance, the struggle for sovereignty, and the right to perform traditional cultural practices; the evolution of Indigenous art; the exploration of the concept of globalism and its’ negative and positive effects on Indigenous peoples, native identity, and art in the so-called pre-modern, modern, post-modern, post-colonial and post-racial worlds.
Native American Imagery in Parallel Paths
Exhibition artists who focus on Native American issues are represented on the various walls titles, Territory/Map, Occupation/Wall, Conflict/Resistance, Land/Food, Overlay/Identity, Words/Persistence, and Home/Diaspora. Norman Akers (Osage), Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish), Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishnabe), Wahssontiio Cross (Mohawk), Michael Elizondo Jr. (Southern Cheyenne/Chumash), Melanie Yazzie (Navajo), Nadema Agard (Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan), Jaune Quick-to- See Smith (Salish), Malaquias Montoya (Chicano), and Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Renape/Pamunkey) have Indigenous Canadian, United States, and Mexican heritages.
Melanie Yazzie, a Dine’ printmaker chose to collaborate with a Lebanese friend and honor Middle Eastern and Native American homelands and culture in her piece, Seeing Each Other. Each woman selected objects that are important to them and Yazzie combined those images, creating dual portraits of them facing each other and surrounded by their respective cultural artifacts. Each portrait is enclosed in a floating rectangle with similar shades of red, pale green, and brown tones. Both women have dark hair and features and look more alike than different. A common sepia toned background with plant vegetation unites the two rectangles, symbolizing a shared concern for the land.
Scott Benesiinaabandan’s digital prints, Flags of Our Fathers, Solidarity Flag Derry, A Small Note from the North of Ireland, Anishanabe Proclamation, and God Save the Queen, references his artist residencies and international collaborations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Based in Canada, this Anishanabe mixed media artist creates works that focus on global Indigenous struggles. His flag photos include flags that are not recognized by nation states, flags hung at half mast, flags being burned, and “non-recognized” flags being draped over government monuments by a protester. Canada’s First Nations peoples have much in common with the Irish due to a shared history of United Kingdom’s colonialism.
Malaquias Montoya’s ink-jet print titled Undocumented is a harsh reminder of the walls and fences created by nation states to block Indigenous peoples from entering lands that they historically inhabited. A clothed figure is trapped on a barbed wire fence with blood oozing from the body and the word Undocumented painted across the figure in red ink. Of Chicano heritage, viewers may assume that Montoya’s figure is trying to enter the United States from Mexico and join the ranks of people who are classified as illegal “aliens”. This figure could very well represent the mestizo migrants who are attempting to re-enter land that once belonged to their ancestors before Spanish and English occupation. Lands now called New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. But as Montoya points out, he creates images of the disenfranchised “from Angola, to Central America, from Palestine to the barrio”.
Nadema Agard’s watercolor/pastel/mixed media, Tatanka Ska Oyate/White Buffalo Nation is dedicated to the White Buffalo Calf Maiden who brought the Sacred Pipe to the Lakota Nation. The work is about a “relational concept of nationhood that is not defined by maps but is the territory of the heart, spirit, mind, and body of the Oyate or The People.” Agard’s ribbon tied par fleche is decorated with seven white buffalo (tatanka) who are moving through a reddish landscape that is located above a gold and white colored buffalo skull.
Crowded, Norman Aker’s digital print is based on his reflections of current events about immigration laws, national borders, and boundaries. His print is concerned with defining and/or finding an Indigenous space within the crowded US landscape. An American Indian man outlined in red and black, wearing Plains clothing and headdress beats on a drum while looking upward. Black and gray birds are flying across the landscape. The background is a partial map of North and South America. Cities such as Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New Haven, Chicago, Brasilia, Regina, and Calgary, just to mention a few are printed in small font. The lone Indian man is crowded and pushed to the edge of the space.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s pigment print, House and Home, is colored mainly in blue hues that wash across the surface in broad strokes. The central image is a tipi with a European styled chair in the middle –a furniture item which may surprise some viewers. The background has several placemats with formal settings of silver ware and dinner plates. In Quick-to-See Smith’s artist statement she explains that some Native Americans still live in portable tipis, especially in the summer. She enlightens us about how members of her Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana live in tipis while participating in Medicine Lodge ceremonies. The strength and durability of tipi architecture enables inhabitants to be comfortable in thunder storms and in hot summer heat. The juxtaposition of formal place settings, an erect hard back chair, and a tipi educate observers about the continuity of traditional Native American style homes and their adaptations in the 21st century.
Neal Ambrose-Smith’s digital print monotypes, Weight of the Discussion; Baby Bird Brain; Stealing a Ride on the White Man’s Bus; and Going Where No Man Has Gone Before, use humor to visually portray Coyote stories about ethical behavior, his Salish tribe’s millennia –old petroglyphs, Native American participation in modernity, and Ambrose-Smith’s desire to see Native American characters in science-fiction literature. Visual cues in Stealing a Ride on the White Man’s Bus such as the well known Catlin figure of an Indian man dressed in a 19th century top hat and tails and the 20th century ad of a bus driver in uniform with the common safety rule “buckle up” are familiar to many of us, but not usually in the same painting. And the phrase “Going Where No Man Has Gone Before” usually implies outer-space exploration in science-fiction modes of travel. But for Ambrose-Smith his Roadrunner figure traverses outer space in a canoe.
Native American artists have survived colonialism, servitude, racial discrimination, and rapid technological changes. Native artists/activists continually develop and revise the multiple meanings of our art and our heritages to suit our own concepts of American Indian/Native American/First Nations/Indigenous peoples. We undertake the evolution of these cultural concepts with the support and guidance of our elder, spiritual advisors, tribal leaders, and community members. We realize the necessity of our art to be responsive to today’s life circumstances. The participating Native American artists, their Palestinian and Irish peers, and the curators, women and men from different tribal, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, came together to honor their respective original homelands despite current occupations, to give voice to those who are silenced, to acknowledge their people’s existence despite attempts of physical and cultural genocide, and to celebrate the diversity of 21st century Native American, Palestinian, and Irish art and culture.
— Phoebe Farris, Ph.D. (Powhatan-Renape) is contributing arts editor for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. She is a professor emerita of Purdue University and the vice president for membership of the Washington D.C. branch of American Association of University Women.
– See more at: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/map-not-territory-parallel-paths-palestinians-native-americans-irish#sthash.fHLMVV9M.dpuf
The MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY UPDATE
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY show continues and is getting amazing reviews!
Checking it out:
WASHINGTON POST:
THE WASHINGTON POST – 05 October 2013 The Map is Not the Territory A complex look at tangled situations, “The Map is Not the Territory” expands beyond the Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds’s usual focus on Palestinian issues to include Ireland’s historic divisions and the United States’ and Canada’s treatment of their indigenous population. Made by 39 artists and mostly on paper, the nearly 70 pieces are grouped into such subcategories as “Occupation/Wall” and “Home/Diaspora.” Their approach ranges from symbolic to specific and from playful to polemical. ome artworks combine elements from the three rather different conflicts. Mona El-Bayoumi’s “Lucky Can’t Find a Piece of Land to Sit and Eat His Falafel Peacefully” collages stereotypical images from commercial food packaging, including Lucky Charms’ leprechaun and Land O’Lakes butter’s Indian maid. Fatin Al-Tamimi and Lisa-Marie Johnson photographed Palestinian-flag-waving marchers on Dublin’s once-contested streets. Helen Zughaib’s “Woven in Exile” shows a veiled woman in front of a colorful Navajo quilt. Rawan Arar’s shot of a West Bank camp shows a spray-painted welcome, “You Are Now Entering Free Dheisheh,” inspired by an oft-photographed sign in Derry, Northern Ireland. Among the motifs are maps, walls and passports. Rajie Cook’s “Epitaph for a Roadmap” depicts an unfolded blank sheet, lacking any path to the future, while Manal Deeb adds symbolic images to her grandfather’s actual Palestinian passport. Malaquias Montoya’s “Undocumented” depicts a faceless person snared on barbed wire, and John Halaka’s “Forgotten Survivors” superimposes an old map — with Jerusalem designated in Arabic as “Al Quds” — atop photos of refugees. There is, inevitably, an abundance of text. The simplest example is Zughaib’s “Beit/Salaam,” whose spiraling calligraphy repeats the words for “home” and “peace.” It’s a gentle mantra for a show that’s more often bristling. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/galleries-silver-clouds-the-map-is-notthe- territory-reminiscences-and-current-musings/2013/10/03/8bc180fc-29f9-11e3-b141- 298f46539716_story.html
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