"Reflecting
eighteenth century antiquarian approaches to place, which included history,
folklore, natural history and hearsay, the deep map attempts to record and represent
the grain and patina of place through juxtapositions and interpenetrations of
the historical and the contemporary, the political and the poetic, the discursive
and the sensual; the conflation of oral testimony, anthology, memoir, biography,
natural history and everything you might ever want to say about a place …"
Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks,
Theatre/Archaeology
(Routledge 2001) page 64-65
works
>> Three Landscpes - a
map on a wall
>> Sicily - 35 archaeological
moments
>> Esgair Fraith
>>
Three rooms - archaeology and performance
>> Traumwerk - an environment for deep
mapping
Cliff McLucas -
"There are ten things that I can say about these deep maps.
First Deep maps will be big - the issue of resolution and detail is addressed
by size.
Second Deep maps will be slow - they will naturally move at a speed of
landform or weather.
Third Deep maps will be sumptuous - they will embrace a range of different
media or registers in a sophisticated and multilayered orchestration.
Fourth Deep maps will only be achieved by the articulation of a variety of media
- they will be genuinely multimedia, not as an aesthetic gesture or affectation,
but as a practical necessity.
Fifth Deep maps will have at least three basic elements - a graphic work
(large, horizontal or vertical), a time-based media component (film, video,
performance), and a database or archival system that remains open and unfinished.
Sixth Deep maps will require the engagement of both the insider and outsider.
Seventh Deep maps will bring together the amateur and the professional, the
artist and the scientist, the official and the unofficial, the national and
the local.
Eighth Deep maps might only be possible and perhaps imaginable now - the
digital processes at the heart of most modern media practices are allowing,
for the first time, the easy combination of different orders of material -
a new creative space.
Ninth Deep maps will not seek the authority and objectivity of conventional
cartography. They will be politicized, passionate, and partisan. They will involve
negotiation and contestation over who and what is represented and how. They
will give rise to debate about the documentation and portrayal of people and
places.
Tenth Deep maps will be unstable, fragile and temporary. They will be a conversation
and not a statement."