CalendarResearch Fellow2024 CBA Research Fellow Talk: {carto{ graphy : geo {poiesis{ : writing the edge of land/body, image/text, art/book

2024 CBA Research Fellow Talk: {carto{ graphy : geo {poiesis{ : writing the edge of land/body, image/text, art/book

Agnes Denes, Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space–Map Projections: The Snail, 1979. Whitney Museum of American Art
Darian Razdar
Déirdre Kelly, Meeting of the Waters, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
José Rufino, erit pulvis, 2021. David Solo Collection.
Ada Smailbegovic, Descriptions of Invisible Objects, 2019. Loose Joints Publishing.
Heidi Nelson & Natalie Campbell, SP Weather Station: 2008 Reports. Courtesy of the artist.
Katarina Jerinic, Exit 30, 2015. Center for Book Arts.
Bonnie Gordon, About Sight and Light, part 2, 1982. Burchfield Penny Art Center.

Join us on Tuesday, April 15 2025 at 12pm for an online talk by 2024 Center for Book Arts Research Fellow Darian Razdar.

{carto{ graphy : geo {poiesis{ : writing the edge of land/body, image/text, art/book is a talk by artist, writer, and independent scholar Darian Razdar investigating contemporary book arts practices as they relate to writing maps, traversing terrain, and making hybrid forms on Earth today. By playing the binary between the aforementioned themes, Darian Razdar presents a queer ecological approach to making sense of life on a damaged planet and the role of book artists in its representation. Discussing works from Museum of Modern Art Archives and Library, David Solo Collection, and Center for Book Arts, this lecture indexes a range of methods within book arts — from the photographic and poetic to the historiographic and scientific. Overall, the speaker responds within the space opened by the question: how do book artists respond to their territories, and why does this matter?

Titles referenced in this talk include: Above Mott Peak, Alan Bern; At No Point In Between, Zora J. Murff; Erit Pulvis, José Rufino; Exit 30, Katarina Jerinic; Facts on the Ground, Toby Millman; Fresh Creek, Sarah Nicholls; Grey Cobalt, Felicia Honskasalo and Ada Smailbegovic; Instante y Revelación, Octavio Paz and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space: Map Projections, Agnes Denes; Meeting of the Waters (Cruinnú na n-Uiscí), Déirdre Kelly; Sactus Sonorensis, Philip Zimmerman; SP Weather Station: 2008 Reports, Heidi Nelson & Natalie Campbell (with Guest Contributors); The Anatomy of the Image Maps, Bonnie Gordon; The Living Mountain, Awoiska van der Molen and Thomas Larcher; The Lost Journals of Sacajawea, Debra Magpie Earling and Peter Rutledge Koch; The Place of Writing, ed. Kasper Andreasen; Transmission, Lucy Helton, and Xenitia, Etienne Audrey Bruce.

This talk is presented in conjunction with the 2024-2025 Research Fellowship at Center for Book Arts.

Free