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Mapping Meaning

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Posted by: Mapping Meaning
Deadline: Sat, March 31st, 2018

Mapping Meaning 2018

Theme: (re) Surveying the Source: Entanglements of Water, History, and Form

Dates: June 24-29, 2018

Location: The Taft-Nicholson Center, Centennial Valley, Montana                          

Application Deadline: March 31, 2018 

 

Mapping Meaning invites women artists, scientists and scholars from all disciplines to participate in a unique summer workshop, “(re) Surveying the Source: Entanglements of Water, History, and Form.” Inspired by a photograph from 1918 depicting an all-female survey crew, Mapping Meaning supports the creative work and scholarship of those working at edges, who are pushing against traditional disciplinary boundaries. Since 2010 this multi-generational collective has been gathering together around experimental knowledge practices.

The 2018 workshop will be held at the Taft-Nicholson Center, in Centennial Valley, Montana. Near the headwaters of the Missouri, this critical ecological region includes the largest wetland complex in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with over 260 species of birds. It is also just north of the historic Minidoka Project in bordering Idaho. This large-scale irrigation and powerplant project dramatically transformed the land, water, and history of the region and was surveyed in part by the all-female crew that inspired Mapping Meaning approximately a hundred years later.

And so, we are all entangled; a complicated mix of forms, histories, species and stories. Through these often messy and surprising encounters we “want to start over, with an imagination adequate to the possibilities and the strangeness and the dangers on this earth in this moment.” (Rebecca Solnit)

We are looking for proposals that (re)survey and explore the friction, shadows, and entanglements of our time. All forms of submissions are encouraged (including presentations, field sessions, performances, film, sound, etc.) Experimental, interactive and field-based approaches are highly sought.

For more details, including how to apply, please visit: http://www.mappingmeaning.org/2018/

Posted on Fri, March 16th, 2018
Expires on Sat, March 31st, 2018

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