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Participation cartography: blurring the boundaries of space, autobiography, and memory by means of performance

By discussing his experience as a participant in Ere Be Dragons (2007), a work by the artists collective Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs and Matt Watkins), Sotelo-Castro sets out in this article some new concepts for thinking through practices which blur the boundaries between autobiographical, site-specific, walking, and cartographic performance art that merges digital technology and sports science. In particular, he suggests that in this work it is the subject-who-takes-part who has been mapped (both her heart beat and the stories that go with it), not space.

The conversation between artistic practice and scholarship initiated by this and the previous outputs is starting to have an impact on further research by other academics internationally. In the MA in New Media and Digital Culture at The University of Amsterdam, postgraduate researcher Radmila Radojevic is using and citing Sotelo-Castro’s outputs to advance her research on ‘performative practices of mapping’.