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artist talk: Lize Mogel

  • Writer: Michael Oliver
    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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