artist talk: Lize Mogel
- Michael Oliver
- Dec 16, 2025
- 2 min read
displace artist counter cartigrapher
radical cartogrpahy
anthroughpogly mixed with cartography
community mapping
creates art and writes and curates maps
counter partropghy: makes maps that challenge the dominat mainstraim narrtive from the persective of the margilinzed
reconizes the power of onvention map
subversion of convention on the means of radical convention
makes thepolticles of space visble and to the surface
spcial justice:
maps vs mapping embodiment'
unobering thepotlicals of space through research nd interaction with people in the space
Mirgration roots: survey prompts to the communty of the place in the valley wood river valley
. pre google/concurrent with google earth
the avaiblity of techngoly inlfuence how we pervive the placce we live in
six lane highway repsenting different stages of hstosy and the geography of the valley infliuence the human geography of the epopel living with it (seasonal migration)
urban development and the rleationship and conflict with nature
how you make live home when migrating and moving
Sharjah infocart & citymap: participatory mapping visted different malls that cator to different demographic collected stories fro mepopel in sharjah from different nationalities
location data personbal data and aniqdotes
most of the residents within srajah and uae are from differnet regions of the world
local knoqgle and potical and social knowldge. data from the working class of the region.
used landmarks or other forms of iconigraphy throuhout the city to show you people navigate. (roundabout scultpures)
instead of cardinal directions its instead were different people in the area are from
home church: informal forms of worship
issue of worker exploitation
governemnt doesnt relase demogrpahics of the country
Places that make you happy (malls and beach)
rola shoping district exculsly used by south asian men explifses the raciala and sergrational tentiohal
using geographic to explore complicated issues
embodie cartography: istead of asking the viewer to be passive you are asking the view to aprticpe
Walking the Wateshed: most water inferstrcutre is invisble but is most impactlbe and making the visble
how or what is effects by the infenstructure
the catskills n newoyrk city is interwinded with water
views from the watershed: perfomece of te map or our guide and laying out the narrive of the tour 6 hour tour to the water supply communties
humna diagram vislbesizes the phyiscal connection between the parts of the system and how people are effected creates a performce of the newyork watersystem diagram
feel more connected and rooted in space
make the invible vissible and conenct with human stories


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