%0 Journal Article
%T Archipelagic Pursuits: A Coming Together of Art Making and Sea Kayaking
%A Donald S. Lawrence
%J Island Studies Journal
%D 2013
%I University of Prince Edward Island
%X This paper considers the archipelago as a model of exchange and commerce to explore the meeting place between art and what Denis Cosgrove has described as the ¡°geographical imagination.¡± It does so by considering two artistic projects in which the domains of art making overlap the author¡¯s interest in sea kayaking¡ªthe two together constituting a vernacular, personally inscribed practice. These projects, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2006) and as part of Tasmania¡¯s biennial Ten Days on the Island (2011), are contextualized by the work of theorists coming from geography and visual arts. The paper extends Katherine Harmon¡¯s observation about the way that maps, ¡°like artworks¡±, may highlight ¡°differences between collective and individual experience.¡± Like the form of hand-drawn maps, another seemingly obsolete technology, the camera obscura, is presented as a means of invoking a heightened, experiential engagement with the (island) landscape.
%K archipelago
%K art
%K camera obscura
%K Fiddle Reef
%K geographical imagination
%K island
%K mapping
%K sea kayaking
%K Tasmania
%U http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-8-1-2013-Lawrence.pdf