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ANCHORAGE, AK (PNAN) – Contemporary artworks that examine our relationship to land, proposing alternative ways of thinking about and experiencing the landscape around us goes on view Friday, October 8, 2021, in a year-long exhibition at the Anchorage Museum through September 22, 2022, Counter Cartographies: Living the Land,” presents how artists draw attention to the way culture, identity, emotion, ancestry, displacement, power and colonization shape, and inform our understanding of land.
In this exhibition, it expands conventional understandings of cartography (mapping), moving beyond two-dimensional Western-style maps. The artists in this exhibition present forms of mapping that are impermanent or experiential through artworks featuring elements of storytelling, dance and sound.
Many of the works challenge existing power structures and invite us to consider how language, memory and culture shape the way we relate to the land around us. They articulate global challenges, from climate change to geopolitical conflict, and encourage us to imagine more resilient futures.
In addition, the show is presented through diverse voices and formats, and includes in-museum and outdoor installations, film, artist residencies and public programming.
For more on this show and other Anchorage Museum programming, go to https://www.anchoragemuseum.org.
Sheryl Natack
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