Bait Al Serkal
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Terra Incognita, et cetera. 2009
Watercolour mural, props, interactive performance and colour video, sound (6 min 9 sec, looped)
Tintin Wulia often bases her work on icons of the geopolitical border: the passport, the wall and the map. In Terra Incognita, et cetera, Biennial visitors are invited to participate in the creation of a new world map on the walls of the exhibition space. In this game, each player chooses a miniature flag or cocktail umbrella at random and pulls toy money out of a hat to decide his or her territory and allowance. A player might get to name this new land, but only if it hasn’t yet been claimed. In the end, the rules of the game are dictated by the artist. Terra Incognita, et cetera is an exercise in collective painting and a spin on territorial marking. The game is intended to fulfill the human desire to claim and name, while at the same time demystifying the power of maps.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.