I’m absolutely thrilled to be presenting this workshop with my friend and colleague Tricia Enns in just a few weeks, here in Toronto. Tricia and I met this year at the HASTAC 2023 Conference at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where we attended each others seminars, and recognized a seriously awesome overlap of interests, which we are proud to share with you as part of …
Debris Mapping Dundas: An Alternative Cartography & Walking Workshop
Saturday, August 12, 2023 at Trinity-Bellwoods Park in Toronto. (Meet at SE Corner of Crawford and Dundas)
REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/debris-mapping-dundas-tickets-688802505837
Collect debris while walking and learning the stories of what is now called Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Garrison Creek, and nearby Dundas Street and how discarded objects, like the land they are found on, connect to historic global trajectories of power that reverberate through our present day.
Learn how to make paper out of recycled material, incorporate your debris, to create an alternative map, highlighting spatial narratives and stories rather than roads and ownership boundaries, that shares your walking journey, and visually orientates your relationships to where, who, and what you walked along with.
MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP and ARTISTS:
In this workshop artist-researchers Tricia Enns and Andrew Lochhead take inspiration from the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Max Liboiron and Josh Pawlesky to look below, above, and at the peripheries of these representative spaces and to develop socio-spatial practices aimed at highlighting the relationships between what is cast off (trash, debris, knowledge, people, resources) and the ongoingness of international capitalism, colonialism, displacement, and environmental degradation. In doing so they raise questions about agency, privilege, story and land, that “walk with” and alongside Indigenous cosmologies, toward emancipatory and justice-based futures.
Set along Dundas Street West in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Lochhead and Enns bring together their individual practices of scenographic walking, debris mapping and paper making to present a hybrid chorography (or place-writing) of spaces within Canada’s largest city, which continue to be the site of heated debate around public memory and civic belonging.
Registration is limited to just fifteen places, and ten percent of participation fees will be donated to the Toronto Council Fire and Ontario Black History Society