Mapping Part II
Mess Hall
September 10 - October 10, 2004
Opening Reception & Celebration of Mess Hall's first year
September 10, 8 pm - 12 midnight
DJ David Chavez on the turntables
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The work in Part II of Mess Hall's investigation of mapping
demonstrates some
of the countless ways to creatively map the world we live in. Mapping
is a
powerful tool used across disciplines to organize what we see, mark
what we
would like to remember, and share what we would like to make visible to
others. Over the next four weeks a series of walking and driving tours
provide
a chance to map Chicago in new ways, from learning about what roadside
plants
can be used to make tea to touring significant sites in radical
activity,
resistance, and change on the west side. Lectures and presentations by
local
and international artists and guests provide looks at some large scale
and
long term mapping endeavors. Workshops give a framework for
understanding how
maps shape our experience of a landscape and a video program highlights
experiential ways to make maps. Our resource area will feature
additional
mapping publications.
The September 10th opening doubles as a celebration of the first year
of Mess
Hall. We hope to see you at some of these exciting events!
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1] MAPS AND MAPPING PROJECTS
2] WALKING AND DRIVING TOURS
3] WORKSHOPS
4] LECTURES
5] MAPPING VIDEO PROGRAM - Organized by Dara Greenwald
6] MAP RESOURCE AREA
[Scroll down for more details - Mess Hall location and contact
information at
the bottom.]
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1] MAPS AND MAPPING PROJECTS:
–> NO RNC Guide - Various NY artists and activists
–> Fallen Fruit: A Mapping of Food Resources in Los Angeles - David
Burns,
Matias Viegener, and Austin Young
–> Elm Hurts - Salem Collo-Julin
–> Free Walking Documentation - Free Walking
–> Mapping the Difference MYKROMAP 01-11/02/03 - Nikolaus Gansterer
–> Riding Chicago's PALM: Redrafting public transportation in Chicago
& I saw
some strange things on the way home from work today: the Northbound Red
line
Dish network tour - Justin Goh
–> Investing The Future In Those Who Will Live It - Ryan Hollon
–> Tour of the Chicago Technology Park 2004-05 - the Temporary Travel
Office
–> Public Green - Lize Mogul
–> Land Mass and Open Lands - Laurie Palmer and Wendy Jacob
–> The Cultures of Technology (at Bowling Green State University) -
Subrosa
as BioPower Unlimited
–> Invisible Government - Richard Van Orman
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2] WALKING AND DRIVING TOURS:
–> Night Walk on the Bloomingdale Trail
Free Walking
Thursday, September 16th, 8pm.
Meet at the corner of Armitage and Kimball, rain or moonlight. We will
walk
just under two miles from Armitage and Kimball to Ashland and North
along an
abandoned freight line known as the Bloomingdale trail. Under the
filter of
night we'll enjoy the unfolding of complex visual and social vistas
from this
elevated vantage, replete with plant life, urban encampments, all
manner of
abandoned materials, construction sites, new developments. Wear good
shoes and
quiet feet for a walk through this contested urban wilderness corridor.
–> Errand Walk with Dan S. Wang
Free Walking and Dan S. Wang
Saturday, Sept. 18th, meet at Dan's home at 10 AM, 5209 S. Ingleside.
See Hyde
Park from the perspective of resident Dan S. Wang as he uses walking in
a
functional manner that is taking him from place to place! Dan will go
on his
Saturday errands-to the store, the post office, the cleaners, and you
will
accompany him on this adventure in the everyday. You don't know Dan?
That's
okay! By the end of the walk you will!
–> Salvation Jane's Rogers Park Tea Walk.
Free Walking and Nance Klehm
Saturday, Sept 25th from 12-4 PM. Meet at Mess Hall walk around Rogers
Park
and forage for plants to turn into tea. You thought they were gnarly
weeds;
you were wrong! Make delicious teas to stimulate your mind and body.
Return to
Mess Hall and also learn how to dry the plants you just picked so you
can
enjoy the tea again and again. Bring a tea cup and a thermos.
–> NOLA in the Windy City
Casey Droege and Rebecca Grady
A tour of New Orleans transposed onto Chicago.
Tour times TBA
–> Dancin' in the streets: Radical West Side Walking Tour
Darrell Gordon and Salem Collo-Julin
Sunday, September 26, Time TBA
Dancin' In The Streets will be a guided walking tour of significant
sites of
radical activity, resistance, and change throughout the west side of
Chicago.
Special attention will be focused on West Madison Street, where a lot
of Black
Panthers' organizing took place in the late 1960s, and the North
Lawndale
neighborhood.
RSVP: [email protected]
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3] WORKSHOPS:
–> UN-MAPPING
With Wade Tillett
Saturday, Sept 11, 2-4 pm
"What is a map? What environment does a map create? How is the
environment
made to conform to the map? What user (body) does a map create? How is
the
user made to conform to the map? What is the relation of user to the
environment implied by the map? Who defines this relationship and why?
Format
will be brief introduction of questions, field survey, summary,
introduction
of questions for RE-MAPPING.
–> RE-MAPPING
With Wade Tillett
Saturday, Sept 18, 2-4 pm
Are maps necessary? How to use and/or overcome the map? Format will be
brief
review of UN-MAPPING, introduction of questions, mobile re-mapping
workshop.
Starts at Mess Hall.
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4] LECTURES (TCheck our calendar for up to date information:
my.calendars.net/
messhall):
–> Matt Coolidge (The Center for Land Use Interpretation), Friday,
Nov. 2, 8
PM
–> Brian Holmes TBA
–> Josh MacPhee will talk about his recently published book "Stencil
Pirates". TBA
–> Laurie Palmer, Thursday, Sept. 23, 7 PM
–> Deborah Stratman TBA
*** Make sure to check out the SAIC Visiting Artists Program:
MAPPING / CULTURE / BORDER / HACKING
This lecture series examines the work of persons who use the
organizational
logic of mapping, cartographic sciences and the grid to locate identity
as
well as its displacements.www.artic.edu/saic/art/vap/vapsched.html
Mess Hall will be participating in a lunchtime discussion at SAIC in
conjunction with this series. The discussion is on September 21st at
noon -
112 South Michigan, room # TBA.
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5] MAPPING VIDEO PROGRAM:
Organized by Dara Greenwald
Saturday, October 2, 7 PM
Running time 79 minutes
–> Calle Chula
By Veronica Majano, 1998, TRT 12:00
Veronica Majano depicts the character of a street in the Mission
District of
San Francisco in her portrait, "Calle Chula." This street is
personified as a
fifteen year old Salvadoran/Ohlone girl on a search to understand the
changes
brought on by colonization, dislocation, and more recently,
gentrification.
Tracing the history of the Mission from its first residents, the Ohlone
Indians, Chula explores the effects of re-colonization on memory and
memory
loss. For Chula, memory loss is a birthmark that was passed down to her
from
her ancestors. "Calle Chula" is Majano's way of addressing the causes
and
consequences of cultural amnesia.
–> Blight
By John Smith, 1996, TRT 14:00
"Blight was made in collaboration with composer Jocelyn Pook. It
revolves
around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked
a long
and bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from
demolition.
Until 1994, when our houses were destroyed, both the composer and I
lived on
the route of this road. The images in the film are a selective record
of some
of the changes, which occurred in the area over a two-year period, from
the
demolition of houses through to the start of motorway building work. The
soundtrack incorporates natural sounds associated with these events
together
with speech fragments taken from recorded conversations with local
people.
–> There There Square
By Jacqueline Goss,, 2002, TRT 14:00 (no sound)
The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from a
distance
color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New
World. There
There Square takes a close look at the gestures of travelers,
mapmakers, and
saboteurs that determine how we read - and live within - the lines that
define
the United States.
–> Newe Segobia is Not for Sale
Subtitled: The Struggle for Western Shoshone
By Jesse Drew, 1993, TRT 29:00
Land activists Mary and Carrie Dann confront Federal Bureau of Land
Management
officers determined to impound the women's livestock until they pay
grazing
fees on land the Shoshone have never sold or otherwise legally
transferred to
the U.S. government. Part of an ongoing conflict over who will control
ancestral lands in Nevada, this videotape depicts a standoff between
the two
groups, as activists speak about their ties to the land and their
determination to keep it at any cost. At the heart of the confrontation
is a
disagreement about what the land means. Using the argument (dating to
the
first land seizures) that they know how to best develop and use the
land, the
Nevada BLM claims to be acting in the best environmental interests.
This is
the same bureau that encourages nuclear waste disposal, open-pit gold
mining
with cyanide leech ponds, and military weapons testing on the same land.
Respect and care for the earth is a central Western Shoshone spiritual
practice and one
of the motives in their struggle for sovereignty.
–> Suggested Photo Spots
By Igor Vamos and Melinda Stone
Strap on your seat belts and get comfortable for a 7,000-mile drive.
This
documentary invites you to travel along with the Center for Land Use
Interpretation as they find Suggested Photo Spots across North America.
Journey from coast to coast, stopping long enough to take snap shots of
unusual or exemplary land use sites across North America. You will even
get to
take a picture of Kodak's own wastewater treatment plant in
Rochester, New York.
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6] MAP RESOURCE AREA:
Bike cart infoshop open air public reading room - The bike cart will be
parked
in Mess Hall and will replace our usual resource area. It will hold
numerous
maps and publications related to Mapping Part II.
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAPS, OR MATERIALS DOCUMENTING MAPMAKING OF
OTHERS. WE
WILL PUT THEM ON DISPLAY IN OUR RESOURCE AREA.
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6932 North Glenwood Ave. (MORSE stop on the Red Line)
Chicago, IL 60626
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