The idea of an un-fixed, ever-evolving, digital atlas – playing with the notion of mapping and situating Lunar House within broader questions of territory, belonging and otherness

This atlas would contain writing by other people, texts, books, films, artist projects, news articles, images, maps and conversations that I will have with different people and my own my writing and drawings

Curating a collection - but allowing the collection to be organised randomly to generate contrasting / conflicting tensions between each item

Inviting the viewer to interact with it by themselves, imagining the spaces between each entry and making their own connections and reflecting on their relationships to territory and belonging

A platform to interact with the broader project and engage with elements of the audience’s choosing - the ability to come closer to particular elements or to step back to see the overview

A continuously incomplete atlas

Mapping is often conceived of as a fixed idea of a space - deliminating the borders and deciding what can and cannot be included

Through this atlas I would like to try to un-fix the idea of a map - seeing interconnecting spaces and topics - without boundaries around what is included - always in motion - never static

Using a digital platform the order of the atlas is randomly generated each time the page is loaded - creating new arrangements of the information every time

Each item can be viewed individually with added information in each page - everything is then seen next to each other in the home page

I am finding it challenging to organise and read and consume information - trying to consume too much - continuation of earlier problem of trying to see everything from above, a totalising view point

The atlas was a way to allow the information to never be complete and exist in an ever-evolving format - I will only understand what I can and that shapes the way I map my own understanding around Lunar House - it is curated through me

However this was maybe still a way for me to try to hold everything together and have control over it all

I need to acknowledge that I will not be able to understand everything and hold it all together

I enjoy the idea of the atlas as a way for the audience to engage in a less curated mode with the project - allowing others to navigate my research - but I think I was mainly, at this point, using it for myself to hold everything

I think I have been feeling overwhelmed with information and nervous that I will forget things - so in this way the atlas was also serving as a way for me to organise my readings - but in a way which I feel uncomfortable with as it suggests an ownership over them and does not allow the audience a more complete understanding of each item

Perhaps the atlas will become useful as a way to map the project later on in the process - and for others to navigate my research - but for now I am going to pause it

Instead - in order to try and calm my relationship to the things I am reading - I am going to try using the research tool Zotero!