Overview Symposia Library-Infoshop Themes Projects

/// EXHIBITION THEMES ///

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THEME#1 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / PRISONS AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
THEME#2 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / BORDERS, LABOR, MIGRATION

THEME#3 >>> ECONOMIC JUSTICE / THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
THEME#4 >>> ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / PUBLIC HEALTH
THEME#5 >>> RACIALIZATION OF SPACE / SPATIALIZATION OF RACE
THEME#6 >>> LAND / INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES, LAND CLAIMS & TREATY RIGHTS

 

/// EXHIBITION PROJECTS & EVENTS (BY THEME) ///

THEME#1 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / PRISONS AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

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The Corrections Documentary Project / Ashley Hunt
http://correctionsproject.com
http://iwontdrown.com

Million Dollar Blocks / Spatial Information Design Lab
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/SIDL/
http://www.l00k.org/milliondollarblocks/million-dollar-blocks
http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php?id=16

Up the Ridge / Appalshop's Holler to the Hood
http://www.appalshop.org/h2h/film/
http://www.appalshop.org/h2h/

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October 7 / (Im)mobility - Prisons and the Prison Industrial Complex

Participants: Ashley Hunt, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kim McGill (Youth Justice Coalition), Melissa Burch (A New Way of Life), Roy San Filippo (Critical Resistance)

 

THEME#2 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / BORDERS, LABOR, MIGRATION

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The Black Sea Files / Ursula Biemann
http://www.geobodies.org/01_art_and_videos/2005_black_sea_files/

Levittown Retrofitted: An Urbanism Beyond the Property Line / Estudio Teddy Cruz and Casa Familiar
http://www.architecture-radio.org/learn/public/20060223-CRUZ

Water Station Maps And Warning Posters / Humane Borders and No More Deaths
http://www.humaneborders.org/news/news4.html

Spatial Justice for Ayn Hawd / Sabine Horlitz and Oliver Clemens
http://www.onelandtwosystems.com/person-201.3344-en.html

Searching for Our Destination / Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
http://liminalspaces.org/?page_id=11
http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/archives/000522.php

Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search / Markus Miessen and Patricia Reed
http://aestheticmanagement.com/hostnotfound.html

disOrientation Guide / Counter-Cartographies Colllective (3Cs)
http://www.countercartographies.org/projects/remapping-the-university/

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Tránsito(ry) Público - The Political Equator / November 13-20

Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana

 

THEME#3 >>> ECONOMIC JUSTICE / THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

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Principles of Unity / Right to the City Alliance
http://righttothecity.org

The Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice / Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
http://www.saje.net/site/c.hkLQJcMUKrH/b.2315801/k.9080/Figueroa_Corridor_Coalition.htm

RFK in EKY / Appalshop and John Malpede
http://www.rfkineky.org

Mobile Planning Lab for South LA / Scott Berzofsky, Chris Gladora, Dane Nester, Nicholas Wisniewski, and SAJE

UTOPIA-dystopia / Los Angeles Poverty Department
http://lapovertydept.org

Spatializing Labor Campaigns / Service Employees International Union

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November 10 / Economic Justice and the Right to the City

Participants: John Malpede, Mark Purcell, Ben Beach, Gilda Haas, Madeline Janis, Edward Soja

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October 6 / Presentation: Returning Power to Neighborhoods

Mark Lakeman of Portland's City Repair Project

 

THEME#4 >>> ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / PUBLIC HEALTH

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Invisible5 / Amy Balkin & Kim Stringfellow
http://www.invisible5.org

Public Green / Lize Mogel
http://www.publicgreen.com

LATWIDNO - Land access to which is denied no one / Sarah Lewison and Erin McGonigle

Public Access 101 - Malibu Public Beaches / Los Angeles Urban Rangers
http://www.laurbanrangers.org/content/events/malibubeachessafari.html

Syracuse City Hunger Project Maps / Syracuse Community Geography
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/community_geography/mapssyrhung.html
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/community_geography/index.html

Best Not to Be Here? / Marie Cieri

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October 27 / Environmental Justice and Public Health

Participants: Amy Balkin, Marie Cieri, Jenna Loyd, Lize Mogel, Kim Stringfellow

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November 3 / Tour: Malibu Public Beaches Safari

Organized by the Los Angeles Urban Rangers

November 11 / Performance: LATWIDNO

Sarah Lewison and Erin McGonigle perform "Land Access to Which Is Denied No One"

 

THEME#5 >>> RACIALIZATION OF SPACE / SPATIALIZATION OF RACE

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Detroit Do Your Thing! / Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
http://anothercupdevelopment.org/projects/detail/33

Detroit's Underdevelopment / Adrian Blackwell
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2006/09/adrian-blackwell.html

A People's Guide to Los Angeles / Laura Pulido
http://www.pgtla.org/

The New Yorkers' Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs / Friends of William Blake
http://www.counterrecruitmentguide.org/

 

THEME#6 >>> LAND / INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES, LAND CLAIMS & TREATY RIGHTS

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A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience / Rosemary Gibbons and Dax Thomas / Boarding School Healing Project
http://www.com.washington.edu/nativevoices/film/Genocide.html

Dakota Commemorative March / Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and David Miller
http://www.dakota-march.50megs.com

Spiral Lands / Andrea Geyer
http://www.andreageyer.info/SpiralLands.htm

Secret Military Landscapes and the Pentagon's "Black World" / Trevor Paglen
http://www.paglen.com/pages/projects/nowhere/photos_images.htm

 

Photo: Interstate-5 in the Grapevine, just south of Lebec, California (Kim Stringfellow)