"Remapping Tales of Desire" 1991-1997

An installation.

A project that began as a historical journey into the legacy of a language of desire within the language of discovery.

This installation project takes the viewer on a journey. It begins in the 17th century, where a young woman has drawn a map for a potential suitor of how to get from "new amity to tender," in other words, from friendship to love. It takes us through a history of metaphors within the language of discovery and travel which continue to be inscribed within colonialistic desire projected onto the description of women's bodies. It links history to the present.

It then proceeds to take a journey across the abyss of confined history to redefine pleasure, where sexuality, sensuality, giving, taking and promising become acts of insinuation that will not be suspended in exploitive gazes. It ends with a proposal to reconfigure our recourses to different maps, a place for both men and women to refuse boundaries and reinscribe desire. 1992-1995.

"Remapping Tales of Desire: guidebook" 1991

A publication by Karen Atkinson and Andrea Liss

This guide book takes the reader on a journey through a history of metaphors within the language of discovery and travel which continue to be inscribed within colonialistic desire projected onto the description of women's bodies. It ends with a proposal to reconfigure our recources to different maps, a place for both men and women to refuse boundaries and reinscribe desire.

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