Mapping of an occupation

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Keywords

performativity
mapping
graphical cartography
Occupy Wall Street
space-time

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Derman , Özge, & Xavier, H. P. (2022). Mapping of an occupation: A graphically rendered statement. Revista Estado Da Arte, 3(1), 335–343. https://doi.org/10.14393/EdA-v3-n1-2022-65617
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Abstract

This paper offers a sociological analysis of a performative experience of mapping in New York's Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in 2011. It delineates the transformation of the declaration of the OWS into a graphically rendered "list of grievances" by the artist Rachel Schragis through a participatory process in the occupied space of Zuccotti Park. Drawing on the continuous transition between the ideas, the three-dimensional lived space, and the two-dimensional flat surface of graphical cartography, it demonstrates the ways in which the collective-performative map-making embodied and transcribed the interconnection between the perceived, conceived, and lived space-time(s) (Lefebvre 1974, Harvey 2006) within the occupied space of the OWS

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