2024.02.02 Interstitched X Non-Linear Cartography

Interstitched

by Markel Uriu and Justin Booz

As a practice of abstraction and juxtaposition, weaving affords the opportunity to explore and research physical and ideological realms and our relationships to the various ecologies that constitute them. Interstitched is an experimental dialogue conducted in physical and digital mediums and is pursued as a call-and-response exercise between Markel and Justin and their different but aligned creative practices. 

Non-Linear Cartography

by Allen Wang

How do we situate ourselves in dimensional space? How do we know where we are and where we’re going? How might we wander without being lost? 

Non-Linear Cartography comprises maps that tell you where things are, but not how to get there. These maps have no interstitial lines, reducing space to its discrete points of interest—to places. As an experiment in Situationist-inspired wayfinding, the wanderer cannot optimize a route in advance; they must mediate the direction they want to go in with the full gamut of formal and informal paths in their way. 

Adapted to the vicinity of the Kirkland Gallery, this implementation is an orienteering activity: using only this map, how many of these Blue Light Phones can you find and what route did you take? By overlaying everyone’s wanderings into an emergent visualization, what map of the built environment do we weave together?