Ground Level - Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II

Ground Level explores how contemporary art practice, mapping and cartography collide. Traditionally the role of the cartographer has been to provide a geographically precise description of the landscape. However, rarely has it been a wholly objective enterprise. While technology increasingly grants access to the precision of satellite imagery, the cartographer’s work has moved further from the ground into more contested areas such as ownership, rights to land, and the flows of people.

This exhibition brings together international artists who perform their own personal forms of cartography. The resulting works suggest maps and surveys, but rather than portraying a singular worldview they put forward idiosyncratic readings of language, peoples and signs, as well as geography.

The exhibition is curated by Kit Hammonds, winner of the 2010 Hayward Curatorial Open, a platform for innovative curatorship in the UK.

Artists include: Maria Thereza Alves; The Atlas Group; Ricardo Basbaum; Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon; Center for Land Use Interpretation; Simon Evans; Yolande Harris; Christian Philipp Müller; Eyal Weizman; Stephen Willats. Ground Level is a Hayward Touring exhibition selected and developed in partnership with John Hansard Gallery; QUAD, Derby; Mostyn, Llandudno and Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum.

Image credits:

Christian Philipp Müller, Green Border, 1993/2005, © the artist, 2010. Courtesy Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change (Bristol), 2007 © the artist, 2010

Tour Details:

This exhibition toured to the following venues:

29 June - 21 August 2010
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

18 September - 31 October 2010
QUAD, Derby

20 November 2010 - 3 January 2011
Mostyn, Llandudno

17 February - 10 April 2011
Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa

End of Tour

For further information please contact alison.maun@southbankcentre.co.uk