‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography’
15 February – 22 March 2009
Opening & A Mapping Forum: Saturday 14 February 17:00-20:00

“…to make maps is to organize oneself, to generate new connections and to be able
to transform the material and immaterial conditions in which we find ourselves
immersed. It isn’t the territory but it definitely produces territory.”
From An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, 2007)
Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory is pleased to present ‘An Atlas of Radical
Cartography’ from 15 February till 22 March 2009. Along with the opening, A
Mapping Forum takes place on Saturday 14 February from 17:00 hrs to 20:00 hrs with
presentations, lectures, and discussions by co-initiator & organizer Lize Mogel,
project contributors Andreas Müller, Philippe Rekacewicz, Marion von Osten (Labor
k3000), and political economist Massimo de Angelis. An intermittent workshop for
drawing subjective maps on the global economic crisis is also planned during the
Forum.

http://www.cascoprojects.org/?show=55&browseby=theme&entryid=160

‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography’ makes its premise on undermining the claim of
mapping as an objective representation of the world. Instead, the project
understands mapping as a tool for reconstructing our society and political sphere
against the dominant pictures of the world that are often represented or made
invisible by “falsographers” (Olivier Rolin). In this radical cartography converge
diverse practices such as art, critical theories, architectural & graphic designs and
activism, share interests in re-mapping the world collectively.
‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography’ was initiated and convened as a publication of ten
maps together with ten accompanying essays by New York-based artists Lize Mogel
and Alexis Bhagat. As a traveling exhibition, it was called in and reset anew at
several institutes in the United States. Casco, the first European venue for ‘An Atlas
of Radical Cartography’, expands the existing map collections to include the maps
focusing on the European context. Altogether fourteen maps are collected and
presented at Casco. Those maps take on a range of pressing social and political
issues from globalization and economic inequity to diverse urban concerns, in the
process creating new imaginary territories and anticipating possible actions.
Contributors & List of Maps
– An Architektur with a42.org – Geography of the Fürth Departure Center
– Bureau d’Etudes – World Government
– The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) – New York City Garbage Machine
– Jacqueline Goss – There There Square
– Hackitectura.net & Indymedia Estrecho – The Critical Cartography of the Straits of
Gibraltar
– Ashley Hunt – A World Map: in which we see…
– Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R – Routes of Least Surveillance
– Labor k3000 in collaboration with TRANSIT MIGRATION – MigMap – Governing
Europe. Mapping European Politics on Migration
– Pedro Lasch – Guias de Ruta / Route Guides
– Lize Mogel – From South to North
– Trevor Paglen & John Emerson – Rendition Flights 2001-2006
– Philippe Rekacewicz – The Big Wheel
– Brooke Singer – The US Oil Fix
– Jane Tsong – The Los Angeles water cycle: the way it is, not the way it should be and
one day will be
– Unnayan – Chetla Lock Gate, Marginal Land Settlement in Calcutta, 1984