Kathy Prendergast transcultural cartography
Contemporary Irish artist Kathy Prendergast has drawn on cartographic references since the 1980s to explore a range of issues from gender hierarchies to the challenges of migration. While prompted initially by political imperatives, her work invariably leans towards the encounters of everyday human...
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| Sprache: | English |
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2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | Contemporary Irish artist Kathy Prendergast has drawn on cartographic references since the 1980s to explore a range of issues from gender hierarchies to the challenges of migration. While prompted initially by political imperatives, her work invariably leans towards the encounters of everyday human experience. This essay explores the focus in her work on the cartography of the United States and how it has informed her imagery. For the artist, maps are transcultural, both across time and across place. Prendergast draws on contemporary maps, reading there the traces of the past as evidenced in the cultural interventions of toponymy and infrastructure. Through eliminating or obscuring chosen elements from the plethora of potential information selected and supplied by the cartographer, Prendergast isolates and consequently highlights particular dimensions otherwise subsumed. From a response to residues of the experience of migrants from elsewhere to negotiating a strange landmass for the first time, her work reflects also on a universal experience of displacement and migration. As befits contemporary practice, Prendergast’s work prompts questions and debate rather than proposing a definitive position, empathetic to contrary narratives and inviting the perspective of the viewer to contribute to meaning. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-032-12127-7 |