deKARTOGRAFIE 2003

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keywords:
journey, tao, action, activism, ad acta, alternative education, reform of art education, technology, technofoby, communication, geography, mytology, technography, cartography, autonome zones,industrial archeology...you can add what you want. psychogeography for example..

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.... This is the artist's way of scribbling 'Kilroy was here' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William Faulkner, Interview with Paris Review, 1956.

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.
Ivan Chtcheglov
The student is a stoic slave: the more chains authority heaps upon him, the freer he is in phantasy. He shares with his new family, the University, a belief in a curious kind of autonomy. Real independence, apparently, lies in a direct subservience to the two most powerful systems of social control: the family and the State. He is their well-behaved and grateful child, and like the submissive child he is overeager to please. He celebrates all the values and mystifications of the system, devouring them with all the anxiety of the infant at the breast. Once, the old illusions had to be imposed on an aristocracy of labour; the petits cadres-to-be ingest them willingly under the guise of culture.
U.N.E.F. Strasbourg, 1966

Mobile pilot project _deCarto-graphy" is a challenge for engaged students and becomming and former students from different schools of humanities, from technical and art disciplines, preferable for those who are trying to find out how to contribute towards transition of the current established educational system, stereotypes and customs of academic education and are trying to approach more open concept of education and self education. Occassion appears for establishing an immediate and experiemental open moving body - students agora which would be based on antiautoriarian and non hierachic ideas and grounds and on values of collaboration and mutual shared resources and experiences. To discuss this issues is possible during the 10-days-gathering-workshop in June, when groups and individuals are engaged in travelling and mapping of certains fenomena and epiphenomena in certain areas and layers of reality, to document data, narratives, objects they encounered and found in town, landscape and its peripheries..in form of text, video, audio, intervence, performance.. assembalges etc.

results will be gathered-collected-uploaded-disctributed and recycled on public space and internet in the places of the mapping after the ending of the project.
Organizers provide basic technical facilities, accommodation and travelcosts by public trafic. bus, train, boat, submarine, bicycle, horse..

This project has been supported by The Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic