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Strip Appeal – International Design Competition

As Postdoctoral Fellow at the City-Region Studies Centre I am currently curating an international design competition to re-imagine the strip mall. News about the competition recently made the front pa… more →

Experimental Geography in Practice

Strip Appeal - International Design Competition

Merle wrote 1 year ago: As Postdoctoral Fellow at the City-Region Studies Centre I am currently curating an international de … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, Curation as Spatial Practice, Exhibitions, Creativity in the City, Architecture and Aesthetics, Design Competition, city region studies centre, strip mall, Architecture

Documentation of Art-Geography Talk @ Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Merle wrote 1 year ago: As promised here is the documentation of the talk given by Kate Foster at GSS giving examples of col … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, Cultural Geography, public art, Geographer-artists, Geography, merle patchett, hayden lorimer, kate foster, Perdita Phillips

My Winnipeg at La Maison Rouge

Merle wrote 1 year ago: Guy Maddin, "Horse heads frozen at the Forks," from "My Winnipeg," 2007. Photo b … more →

Tags: art in place and the place of art, Exhibitions, Creativity in the City, Canadian Art, Creativity in the city, MY WINNIPEG, la maison rouge, Paris, Guy Maddin

Kate Foster Talks "Changeable Places" at Glasgow Sculpture Studios — 3 comments

Merle wrote 1 year ago: I want to bring to your attention a presentation by environmental artist Kate Foster at Glasgow Scul … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, Cultural Geography, Geographer-artists, Geography, merle patchett, hayden lorimer, kate foster, Andriko Lozowy, experimental geography

Fashioning Feathers Flyer

Merle wrote 2 years ago: The flyers for the exhibition – Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plum … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, Cultural Geography, Curatorial Concerns, Geographer-artists, Curation as Spatial Practice, Exhibitions, merle patchett, Fashioning Feathers, affect

Terrible Karma's Insertion into the Glossy World of Western Canada Fashion Week — 1 comment

Merle wrote 2 years ago: As I mentioned in an earlier post the collaborative audio-visual work  - Terrible Karma: reverberati … more →

Tags: Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, public art

Re-Inscribing the City: Unitary Urbanism and it’s Legacy

Merle wrote 2 years ago: Re-inscribing the City is a panel discussion happening April 9th 2011, in New York. My friend (and f … more →

Tags: Cultural Geography, spatial theory, Creativity in the City, the city, unitary urbanism, anarchist book fair, archiving the city, Lettrrist/Situationist International (LI/SI), Urban Alienation

Documentation of Terrible Karma: U-Haul truck as Mobile Exhibition Space — 6 comments

Merle wrote 2 years ago: Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a mobile audio-visual installatio … more →

Tags: Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps

Experimental Geography in Practice!

Merle wrote 2 years ago: … more →

Tags: Creativity in the City, Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists

Liberate Tate: Alternative Tate Audio Tour

Merle wrote 2 years ago: Art/activist group Liberate Tate, has put out a call out for a sound artist to work with them on an … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, 'Slow Art' and Sustainability, Curatorial Concerns, Sound Art #2, Exhibitions, Sound Art, Liberate Tate, Audio Tour, Call For Proposals

Material Culture, Craft and Community: Negotiating Objects Across Time and Place

Merle wrote 2 years ago: For those of you interested in material culture the Material Culture Institute of the University of … more →

Tags: Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, merle patchett, Material Culture Institute, University of Alberta, Material Culture Conference, Laurel Thatcher, Fashioning Feathers exhibition

Global Visions Film Festival: the ENERGY PANEL

Merle wrote 2 years ago: This Saturday (Nov 13th) at the Art Gallery of Alberta I will be moderating Global Visions Film Fest … more →

Tags: 'Slow Art' and Sustainability, merle patchett, global visions film festival, energy panel, Oil, The Stinking Ship, The 4th Revolution

Dispatch: Notes towards a Lexicon of Urgencies

Merle wrote 2 years ago: DISPATCH is the Independent Curators International’s (ICI) new bi-monthly online journal that … more →

Tags: spatial theory, Curatorial Concerns, Curation as Spatial Practice, Independent Curators International (ICI), dispatch, CRitical Transregionality, curatorial concerns, curatorial writing, online curatorial journal

Geographer-artists: creative practice as research tool?

Merle wrote 2 years ago: Consider yourself a geographer-artist? If so then you may be interested in submitting an abstract fo … more →

Tags: Geographer-artists, geographer-artists, AAG, Harriet Hawkins and Phil Jones, geography and art

Prison Art: the Visual Culture of Incarceration

Merle wrote 2 years ago: The National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta is currently featuring Giovanni Battist … more →

Tags: art in place and the place of art, Visual culture of Incarceration, prison art, merle patchett, piranesi, prisons, The Panopticon, Trevor Paglen, Foucault

Frieze Writer’s Prize 2010 — 1 comment

Merle wrote 2 years ago: I am currently trying to finish off a review I am entering into Frieze Magazine’s New Writer … more →

Tags: art criticism, WRITER'S PRIZE

Experimenting with Geography

Merle wrote 2 years ago: Last month I attended the international training school Experimenting with Geography: See, Hear, Mak … more →

Tags: Experimental Geographies, Spatial Encounters, spatial theory, Cultural Cartography, Geographer-artists, Creativity in the City, Experimental Methods, Geography, Sound Art


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