Through Un-Mapping we can consider and explore potential underlying assumptions of space. I use the term territorial conjectures. An idea of how we should understand space, encoded and justified through the map. This can mean that unquestioned assumptions feed into the mapping process and cement themselves at the heart of gallery space.
Re-Mapping aims to re-construct gallery space with an awareness of our assumptions. It offers a pathway to re-producing museum space – notably without having to re-produce architectural space.
Through the Following Pages, I am going to present three different directions and methods of Re-Mapping. Each with different impacts and results.
Foundational Re-Mapping seeks to re-center our beliefs at the heart of museum space. It seeks to challenge the unchallenged assumptions, and explore what a museum space built on new principles would look like. It involves first understanding our values in relation to territorial conjectures, and seeking to encode them as new designators and icons.
Trail Re-Mapping seeks to produce novel gallery space within pre-existing physical space. It seeks to investigate a collection through a new lens, unrestrained by physical limitations. It is a conceptually driven creative process aiming to produce new pathways and trails through gallery space, shifting how social space is produced.
Situationist Re-Mapping seeks to explore a personal connection with gallery space. It seeks to act on intuition and impulse to upturn pre-established and constrictive mappings, aiming to disrupt the spectacle of the gallery and investigate the situation.
These methods of Re-Mapping exist on a spectrum from practical to artistic, structured to exploratory. Aspects from each can be picked and chosen from, with the ultimate goal to explore how we can produce new understandings of gallery space through creative engagement with mapping. How we can engage in a Cartographic Intervention.
Caleb 