Meta Map

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Yumi created this project with Andrew Blackstock and Casey McGuire while working in Pilsen. They asked locals to draw maps on their hands explaining how to get to various places in the city. This map explains a route from their favorite coffee shop to the cathedral. Later, they photographed their hands, printed a series of folded paper maps, and asked people on the street to help them navigate.
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Yumi Janairo Roth was born in Eugene, Oregon and raised in Chicago and suburban Washington DC. She currently lives and works in Boulder where she teaches sculpture at the University of Colorado. Yumi has created a diverse body of work that includes discrete objects and site-responsive installations, solo projects as well as collaborations. Many of her recent works explore ideas of moving, modifying direction, or searching for place, while also demonstrating an interest in issues of material and labor. She received a BA in anthropology from Tufts University, a BFA from the School for the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and an MFA from the State University of New York-New Paltz. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with shows in New York (Bronx River Art Center, Sara Meltzer Gallery), San Francisco (Limn Gallery), Portland (Institute of Contemporary Art), Houston (Lawndale Art Center, DiverseWorks), Boston (New Art Center), Denver (Rule Gallery, Center for Visual Arts), Minneapolis (Soap Factory), Milwaukee (Institute of Visual Arts), Santa Fe (Museum of Fine Arts), Seattle (Consolidated Works), Mexico (Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, La Galleria Rufino Tamayo), the Philippines (Ayala and Vargas Museums), and the Czech Republic (Galerie Klatovy-Klenova, Institute of Art and Design-Pilsen).

During her residency at Swing Space, Yumi will collect discarded shipping pallets that she finds throughout the neighborhood. She will modify the pallets by inlaying them with mother-of-pearl using motifs gleaned from traditional Filipino furniture design. Subsequently, she will reintroduce into circulation those modified shipping pallets and document their movement.
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source: meumonwordpress

CaixaForum para ver una exposición que se llama “Cartografies contemporànies. Dibuixant el pensament”. Esta foto se llama This is map #6, Pilsen, Czech Republic y es´ta hecha en el año 2007. Ese año YUMI JANAIRO ROTH hizo un experimento. Salió a la calle y le pidió a la gente que le dibujara en la mano el mapa con algún lugar de Pilsen que fuera interesante para ir a visitarlo.

Así la gente fue dibujando en sus manos sus lugares preferidos. Luego Yumi editó un mapa turístico con los lugares más bonitos e interesantes para la gente de Pilsen. Así podrían compartirlos con otras personas que visitaran su ciudad.

Imagina que Yumi llega a Badalona y te pide que le dibujes en la mano un mapa para que pueda llegar a tus 3 lugares preferidos de tu barrio. ¿Qué le dibujarías? Explica qué lugares señalarías y por qué son tus lugares preferidos de tu barrio. Cuando vas, cuándo fuiste la primera vez, con quién, qué haces ahí, qué hace que este lugar sea tan especial para tí…