Review
“At this crossroads, spatial knowledge develops through reciprocal borrowings, increasingly within the framework of collaborations between geographers and artists (Regnauld and Viart, 2007; Hawkins, 2011; Volvey, 2012c), between field practices and figurative and/or performative practices, and within both fundamental and applied perspectives. This collaborative form of art-and-science projects is masterfully represented by the work From/To (2002) by the U.S. artist of Lebanese-Palestinian origin Fareed Armaly, presented at Documenta 11 in Kassel and online (Volvey, 2012c). This cartographic land-claiming—both museal and virtual—was created through a mapping of Palestinian territories, itself based on the principle of digitizing a stone (the smallest unit of land and both a weapon and a symbol of the Intifada). It draws its territorial substance from empirical scientific productions in order to impose a regime of visibility for everyday Palestinian territoriality and, in doing so, to assert its political horizon of expectation.”
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