A Map to Get Lost: a drift through concepts, facts and rumors
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Benjamin Bardinet is worried that some of the magic of art in public space is lost when everyone can map the city in advance using GPS. As a response, Bardinet’s contribution to the biennial is a map for getting lost, a map with quotations, facts and rumours related to works exhibited in the biennial.
A Map to Get Lost – 2, will be the second issue of the map, a juxtaposition of Bardinet’s original contribution, with the addition of new routes, detours and dead ends. It will be available in Norwegian and English at Myntgata 2, as a free map that visitors can take away.
A Map to Get Lost: a drift through concepts, facts and rumors
Do you remember the world before GPS? Just a few years ago we still went around with paper maps in our hands looking for points of reference in the urban scene or landscape. The aim was to get the map and the terrain to make sense together, so we could manage to find our way forward. An amusing effect of this was that we often lost our way. By pure bad luck, we ended up outside the tourist itineraries and stumbled into things we had never looked for to start with. Today the smartphone tells us where we are at any time, and restaurants, bars, shops and museums are automatically marked on the map. By clicking on the screen we can see whether the shop is recommended by others or not. Benjamin Bardinet’s project for the biennial is an assault on this. He is worried that important aspects of the magic of art in public space are lost when everyone has mapped the terrain in advance. Bardinet’s contribution to the biennial is therefore a map in which we can get lost, a map with quotations, facts and rumours related to the exhibited works, a map that opens up new paths, detours or dead ends.
Benjamin Bardinet's Map to Get Lost visualises the location of the artworks in osloBIENNALEN along with quotes, facts and rumours that Bardinet has found in his investigation of the biennial artworks and places. The map is available (in Norwegian and English) at Myntgata 2 as a map that you can take with you.
A Map to get lost visualises the location of the artworks in osloBIENNALEN along with quotes, facts and rumours that Bardinet has found in his investigation of the biennial artworks and places. The map is available (in Norwegian and English) at Myntgata 2 as a map that you can take with you.
Click here for a high-res version of Bardinet's map.