Hosted at g727, 727 S. Spring St. in downtown LA
All welcome, $mall donation, popcorn and beer…

Bill Brown

Confederation Park (1999), The Other Side (2006), Mountain State (2003)
Bill Brown is a “nomadic” filmmaker, photographer, and author from Lubbock, Texas. He has produced films on the United States–Mexico border, North Dakota missile silos, the Trans-Canada Highway, among other places. The films have been exhibited at numerous film festivals and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He describes his films as postcards with a pretty picture but instead of words on the back, his films are narrated with voiceover.

Bia Gayotto
Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008)
Xing LA is an investigation of the mobile space of the commute, exploring three parallel routes by foot, by train, and by car. From “footslogging” to modern modes of transportation, the travelogue provides a portrait of Los Angeles, examining how the route and the experience of the route change depending on the mode of travel.

Opening Reception, May 16 at 7:00pm
727 south spring street
downtown los angeles, ca 90014
http://g727.org
May 16-June 30, Fri/Sat 1-6

The artwork collected in this exhibition is a survey of diverse perspectives projected along the horizon of our mappable world. The geography created by these artists is not only physical, but psycho-social. Although much of the work employs photography, there is a welcome uncertainty in these images-objects which reflect the shifting, contested and mysterious nature of our current cultural, environmental and built landscapes.

Presenting Anthony Auerbach, Katherine E. Bash, Noah Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Nikolas Schiller, Oraib Toukan, and Angie Waller.

“While most people use maps for directions, all our activity - where we work, play, eat - are color coded on a zoning map which describes where these daily performances can legally take place. However, the general public rarely sees these life shaping maps because they really don’t care. The vast majorities of people view their home, lifestyle, and mobility patterns as choices rather than something predetermined or conditioned.”

Introductions, Adam Katz and Brian Rosa
Interview with Denis Wood
Anthony Auerbach, The World is a Cut-up
Bill Brown, Oklahoma Motel & Biosphere 2
Simone Hancox, The Map is Performed in the Territory
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, The Rise of The User Generated City
Bill Fox, The Angels of Mulholland drive
Herbert Gottfried, North Acton, Route 27 Community Gardens & Comfort Suites Under Construction, Bedford
Gerardo Greene Gondi, Image Texture
Alex Haber, Mapping the Void in Perec’s Species of Spaces
Cris Benton, A Brief History of Kite Aerial Photography
Anusha Venkataraman, Situating the Grassroots: Collectivity and Imagination

Order A Copy of the Book From Lulu

This is a no-profit venture - Purchasing a copy of Tattered Fragments helps to fund the Photocartographies project. If you would prefer, books are also available at g727 in downtown Los Angeles.

.pdf versions of the book are available for those interested in reviewing or promoting the project, contact us.

Schiller’s prints are highly detailed tesselations of USGS imagery. More information about his Los Angeles images can be found on his website at nikolasschiller.com

-the two mt. rushmores can be the piece b/c they kind of go together
-or one devil and one rushmore
-or one devil and two rushmores together as one

Polaroids will be matted and placed behind glass in a white lacquer frame, depending on how many you want and what you want to do with them.

From the series, Berms and Drumlins: “By examining mankind’s reshaping of the earth, I explore how we assign positive and negative values to anthropogenic landscape modifications. As human inhabitants of the earth, we are bound to affect the environment. How do we determine whether our modifications have a positive or negative impact on the landscape?”

Participating artists have donated editioned work to help raise money for the Photocartograpaphies project. Prices vary but are all under $300.