Diagrams of Power: Visualizing, Mapping, and Performing Resistance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9083350193 ISBN 13: 9789083350196

Publisher: Set Margins' publications, 2024

Synopsis

Using data, diagrams, maps and visualizations to challenge dominant narratives and support the resilience of marginalized communities

This volume collects contemporary artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities.
The artists and designers featured critique conventionalized and established truths that obscure important histories or perpetuate oppressive regimes; they also contribute to positive social change by engaging communities and providing alternative strategies for storytelling, communication and organizing. Historical and contemporary uses of data and visualization in colonization, surveillance and management are problematized through critical interventions that use performance, embodiment and counternarratives. The publication is the product of an exhibition organized by Onsite Gallery at OCAD University, Toronto, in 2018.
Contributors include: Joshua Akers, Burak Arikan, Josh Begley, Joseph Beuys, Alexis Bhagat, Vincent Brown, Bureau d'Études, Teddy Cruz, Department of Unusual Certainties, Peter Hall, Alex Hill, W.E.B. DuBois, Patricio Dávila, Catherine D'Ignazio.

About this title

From the Back Cover

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of perceived objectivity. Diagrams of power work against representations that claim omniscience by speaking from a position, and making visible what and who gets represented and who does the representing. 'Diagrams of Power' brings together the work of designers, artists, cartographers, geographers, researchers, and activists who create diagrams to tell inconvenient stories that upset and resist the status quo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Set Margins' publications
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 9083350193
• ISBN 13: 9789083350196
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Davila Patricio