Over the past few months I have been involved with a programme of events at Arnolfini called 'Rethinking Archives'. These have explored issues and questions relating particularly to the archiving of contemporary art and live art. The events have included presentations by artists and academics and at the last session an inspiring presentation was given by artist Daniel Belasco Rogers. For the past 5 years Daniel has been using GPS systems to track and archive his daily activities. The resulting work is called The Drawing of My Life (see Daniel's website to find out more).
Two days earlier I had decided to focus my daily practice on map making - an interesting bit of syncronicity - and spent the rest of that week playing with ways of making maps related to my own practice and my daily life. Here are some of the results...