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Presenter Bio
Shmee Giarratana is a queer intermedia artist, storyteller, educator, and mentor whose work is driven by a commitment to creative emergence. Shmee’s passion for storytelling spans from personal narrative to cultural mythology and fosters a commitment to the myriad of tales of our time. Honoring story as a path into relationship, Shmee's projects connect self-discovery to meaning-making with the web of life. In collaboration with non-profit and community arts centers, Shmee offers art-based programs grounded in mindfulness, embodiment, ritual and creative play for self-inquiry, story weaving and community building. With a BA in Film Studies and MA in Depth Psychology, Shmee supports higher-ed through curriculum development as adjunct professor, teaching artist, and administrator at the California Institute for Integral Studies and the Holos Institute.
Presentation Description
Who writes the map? Maps are powerful tools that are used to center particular narratives. Too often the narratives of maps assume to be objective, occupying a unilateral truth. When in actuality, the cartographer’s position creates a context that contains the story of the map. Rather than holding a false objective, subjective mapmaking captures the counter narratives co-existing everywhere, always. By centering and acknowledging the presence of a cartographer’s perspective, a map unfolds into relational story-weaving. How queer!
Join Shmee for a discussion about maps: their power and presence in our lives and communities. Among the counter-mapping strategies presented, Shmee will share a practice from their Wayfinding Workbook for narrative cartography. You can use this practice in a “sit spot” or while moving through space.
The Queer Subjective: Everywhere You Go There You Are
Who writes the map? Maps are powerful tools that are used to center particular narratives. Too often the narratives of maps assume to be objective, occupying a unilateral truth. When in actuality, the cartographer’s position creates a context that contains the story of the map. Rather than holding a false objective, subjective mapmaking captures the counter narratives co-existing everywhere, always. By centering and acknowledging the presence of a cartographer’s perspective, a map unfolds into relational story-weaving. How queer!
Join Shmee for a discussion about maps: their power and presence in our lives and communities. Among the counter-mapping strategies presented, Shmee will share a practice from their Wayfinding Workbook for narrative cartography. You can use this practice in a “sit spot” or while moving through space.
