'Tracing two decades of the development of Hong Kong-based MAP Office (Gutierrez + Portefaix) in an evolution from architectural research to artistic interventions, Where the Map is the Territory catalogues process-oriented and ongoing projects related broadly to the dialectics of body and territory, legibility, and (in)visibility. The text, structured around six clusters of work anchored by core conversations with curators Maurizio Bortolotti, Norman Ford, Hou Hanru, Josef Ng, Claire Tancons, and Robin Peckham (ed.), seeks to build a repertoire of observational and productive tactics accumulated through exhibitions, competitions, and festivals. These strategies begin in Hong Kong, migrate to the Pearl River Delta, expand to China as a whole, and then explode this rubric into a generalised logic from virtual spaces to other global territories.' (Back cover)
Includes artist biographies.
Includes artist biographies.
Access level
Onsite
artist
editor
Location code
MON.MAO
Language
English
Keywords
diaspora,  installation,  multimedia art,  site-specific art,  performance art,  photography,  video art
Publication/Creation date
2011
Edition
1
No of pages
360
ISBN / ISSN
9789881736789
No of copies
2
Content type
artist monograph
Chapter headings
MAP Office: Cities as Productions
Techniques of the Observer
Conversation with Robin Peckham
Transitional Histories
Conversation with Norman Ford
Personal Island or Element of Plot? MAP Office's Intervention in the Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2007
Cycles of Absorption
Conversation with Hou Hanru
Great Leap Forward: Development is a Must
Inside and Out
Conversation with Maurizio Bortolotti
Homes for America/China
Rituals of Resistance
Conversation with Claire Tancons
Producing Reality (extract)
The Repeating Islands
Conversation with Josef Ng
Runscape (extract)
Map Office: Where the Map is the Territory

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