projects: July 2009 Archives

My current big project plays with the visceral reality of territory.

We all invest in land, in boxes to inhabit, nations go to war as they dispute territory. Land equals wealth. The property market goes down the whole economy follows. We use maps to navigate this neatly organized world of possession. Public space and Private space.

Maps get me from a to b, they point out landmarks, even give me traffic information. But there are many types of maps, of cartographing reality and the one I'm most interested in exploring and helping create is a new visceral territorial map. Tribocracy.

A layer on top of the cartographic maps we know so well. A map that informs me of who is claiming what territories. A map aimed at an younger audience, that allows them to pinpoint their dwelling, project their desires onto it: it only takes 3 points to claim an area, but you have to physically be in that area. I can claim the tower of london, if only i can encircle it... 

A map that is both physical and virtual where I can see who dwells in my newly claimed territory. A map that allows me to escape this political reality we are bound to and generate a new layer of meaning. Tribocracy.