The cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz says, "as soon as you map geographical, economical or demographical data, you act politically, because you necessarily have to chose". Objective maps are just as rare as objective statistics. Maps have always been instruments to control space. They collect knowledge mostly about clearly zoned territories and are therefore preconditions for certain actions inside that space.
Against this background, we have created a city-map of Leipzig's local protest movements. Spatially spoken, protest is a form of action that normally does not posses its own space, but temporarily penetrates into the spaces of the other / the powerful. There it abrogates rules, creates conflicts and afterwards disappears again on this location. To put it in different words: protest is something performative. It becomes visible only if it takes place. The Leipzig Protest Atlas maps the spatial and temporal dimensions of local protest movements. Small-scale maps will show the connections between symbolic places and concrete actions such as chanting slogans. Or, one micro-spatial map will visualize the choreography of a protest event, called "radio ballet".
Release: 08. Mai, 16 h at General Panel Display, Leipzig Augustusplatz
(6 Maps + Text by Kai Vöckler about mapping + text on protest in leipzig + reader + pictures)

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protest academy