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Linda Knight
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Bark, Gum, Garbage bins (citizen shadows series) (Cover’s Comment)
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Bark, Gum, Garbage bins (citizen shadows series) (Cover’s Comment)
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                                                                          COVER’S COMMENT

Bark, Gum, Garbage bins (citizen shadows series) (2018) by Linda Knight


The pernicious nature of colonisation enacts ongoing effects on communities and environ-
ments that have experienced life in its many contact zones, including the invasion of lands,
extractive-related damage to land and water ecologies, and socio-interventionist policies. Cre-
ating artistic commentary about the scale of these effects can be important for developing a
decolonial practice that is committed, critical and generative. Through an experimental car-
tographic approach called inefficient mapping and via drawing and critical stitching practic-
es, Linda Knight explores how experimental cartographies help to create counter-narratives
of colonisation across its many contact zones.

Rather than a human wandering about in spaces and taking notice of things to draw, inefficient
mapping provokes thinking differently about the ethics of the encounter and of being human,
of the coloniser who has fenced off, stolen, fought for, hunted on, farmed, listened to, birthed
on, hacked up, planted into these spaces and keeps that central during the process of wayfinding.

In the citizen shadows series, Knight conducted a citizen census of the urban citizenry in
Brisbane, Australia via thirty small, in-situ mappings recorded over the duration of a month.
The shadow; ubiquitous to each citizen, whether solid, liquid, or gas, was the common factor
Knight mapped to conduct the census. The citizen shadows series experiments with the specu-
lative possibilities of establishing a more-than-human civics, and how this might be actualised.

An Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia, Linda is an award-winning, interna-
tionally recognised artist and scholar. Linda is the Founder and Director of Mapping Future
Imaginaries, an international group of artists, creatives, scholars, and industry specialists ex-
ploring ideas about our future lives and the world.


Linda Knight: https://lindaknight.org/

Mapping Future Imaginaries: https://mappingfutureimaginaries.com/
