RabachK VtP Collaboration Biography

In terms of the installation, I’d love to think of the ways we could play with Massey’s theorizing of space/place as alive. To visualize something doesn’t just mean to see or to make visible, but it can also mean to form a mental image… to imagine. I want to think a bit about how imagination expresses itself through the materiality of space, through the poetics of various landscapes. So, what is the materiality of the space for our gallery? What landscape are we trying to produce?Because my mind is so entrenched in AiT at the moment, I’m also wondering how mapping practices could be included in the exhibition (if at all). Mishuana Goeman’s project Mapping Indigenous LA, though not in a physical gallery, could provide some inspiration for us, especially because it is a place-based project. She will be on campus for two days in February and might be a good resource for us to think about both mapping as an ethnographic practice, but also how to then relay those maps. In my GSS class, one of my professors recently spoke about an experimental pedagogy of silence. She is having her undergrad students go to the American Monument exhibition together, but in complete silence from one another. I then started to think about how audio is so inextricable in many ways from the visual. In fact, all of the senses interconnect and overlap. All of these senses produce a space/place. Maybe we could play with this as well?Still brainstorming on this one…