Temporal Mapping is a cycling, art, & research and project questioning the temporal dimensions of maps.
Maps are a representation of reality and aim to objectively visualize a place from above; it’s contours, vegetation, roads, buildings, rivers, deserts, etc. The lines and colors on a map are static, they say ‘this is the truth’ even though their subjects are dynamic; new buildings emerge, glaciers get smaller, mountains erode, and the shoreline never is a straight static line.
How do you bring maps to life? And how do you add time in them?
This project questions the visualization and (non)objectivity of maps through a series of events, performative actions and artistic outcomes creating new ways of representing the earth and its temporal dimensions.
On the 28th of September in collaboration with Platte Gang we hosted a workshop/research event in which we playfully discovered how our bikes and cycling can help us visualize the temporal dimensions of the sea.
After an introduction into cartography and the history of maps we rode along the north sea, curving our way over the sand as we individually followed the incoming and outgoing of the waves. Tire traces weaving, we each tracked the ever changing and ever temporal shoreline of land ending- and sea beginning. Comparing lines that are mapped in the blue of the sea we discussed the (non)-realism and (non)-objectiveness of maps. We each experimented with ways to bring the ever changing nature of living in time into the visualization of our map.
I’m preparing to do a material research into glass my main research questions is: How to visualize the moving shoreline using the tracks from the workshop using glass maps?
At the same time glass is a new material for me so which means I need to learn new skills as turning beachsand into glass as well as the craft of creating stained glass panels.
PROJECT STOKER: Rosa van Walbeek is an artist, musician, composer & performer. She specialises in musicality of landscape and questions the relationship of humans to their surroundings using different temporal dimensions to take her audience out of a human centered narrative. Her mediums include installation pieces, film, performing arts, textile works, text based works and long bike journeys.
