Thanks to Ryan Mattke, director of the Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota for displaying the Map of Joy and Pain. It has just been installed. Ryan and I had an interesting discussion about ways to present the Map of Joy and Pain online - and ways that participants could add to it online. Stay tuned.
http://map.lib.umn.edu/
Thanks again to Colleen Sheehy, Director of The Plains Art Museum and Mike Williams, Commissioner, City of Fargo for inviting me to Fargo last week to talk about my participatory public art. I tried a new interaction with the audience; I paused my presentation of the Mapping of Joy and Pain midway and invited the audience to write a place in Fargo where they have experienced joy (on a gold card) and pain ( on a gray card). This provided a useful way into discussion at the end of the talk. Three people had the same place of joy - the main park of Fargo which they remembered for swimming, social interactions, and town events. There were interesting observations and questions; "You are asking people to reflect on their lives, in public, which is unusual." And " After this time of reflection what are the main things you and especially your student assistants have learned?"
The Plains Art Museum and The City of Fargo, North Dakota have invited me to give a public lecture on my recent work: Tuesday, November 8 at 7 PM. My talk is titled " The Emotional Landscape" and will include a community workshop event.
http://plainsart.org/rebecca-krinke-presentation/
Krinke Presentation uploaded:
http://www.youtube.com/nuimgeography#p/u/6/Kw8oCobpJMw
Thanks again to Karen Till and Nessa Cronin for the opportunity to present my work in Ireland as part of the Mapping Spectral Traces symposium in Maynooth/Dublin. And thanks to the Irish Museum of Modern Art for hosting the second day of presentations. I met many, many terrific new colleagues in Ireland and look forward to new dialogues. Videos of all the presentations will be online. The introduction to the conference has been uploaded at http://www.youtube.com/nuimgeography#p/u/7/muIiNkBIxrE
(The above image is from our field trip to ancient sites and holy wells.)
At the Bristol symposium/exhibition, I had the pleasure of being introduced to many new colleagues from England and Ireland. Dr. Karen Till is now with the National University of Ireland/Maynooth, and I was pleased to meet her colleague from Maynooth, Dr. Ronan Foley, who has recently become interested in therapeutic landscapes and in particular, relationships between water, health and place at a range of settings including wells, baths and spas. I also was very pleased to meet Dr. Nessa Cronin of the National University of Ireland/Galway, who is co-organizing with Karen a meeting of the "Spectral Traces" group (working title only) in May 2011. Nessa's research interests include Irish historical cartography, colonial and imperial geographies, twentieth-century Irish writing, and the politics of translation.
This blog entry (Flags of Intention: Mapping Future Traces) from the geography department at Maynooth discusses the Mapping of Joy and Pain.
Unseen/Seen: The Mapping of Joy and Pain is a new, temporary work of outdoor public art created by Rebecca Krinke. The project is traveling to several Minneapolis and St. Paul parks, the Walker Art Center and the Minnesota State Fair this summer. This artwork creates the setting and the opportunity for the public to map where in Minneapolis/St. Paul they have experienced joy and pain. She is assisted by a student team of Jamuna Golden, Michael Dorfman, David Kerber, Joey Cronick, and Eric Maass. Kevin Groenke and Justin Kindlespire of the College of Design wood shop provided laser cutting expertise.
Rebecca Krinke is a multimedia artist and designer working in sculpture, installations and site art. In broad terms, her work deals with issues related to trauma and recovery. Krinke’s sculpture often explores and embodies themes of trauma - using the body as a starting point - while her installations and site works have focused on ideas of recovery - through contemplative, transformative environments. She teaches in the College of Design (Dept. of Landscape Architecture) at the University of Minnesota.
