REGIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
contact [at] regionalrelationships [dot] org
contact [at] regionalrelationships [dot] org
Regional Relationships works with artists, scholars, writers and activists
to create works that investigate the natural, industrial and cultural landscapes
of a region.
It is a platform to re-imagine the spaces and cultural histories around us.
An invitation to join in seeing what we can learn—and learning what
we can see—by juxtaposing spaces and narratives that are usually kept
apart.
Popular beliefs about human geography are composed of binary oppositions
like “urban” and “rural” and “cosmopolitan” and “provincial”.
These divisions naturalize synthetic borders and harden political boundaries,
obsfucating their cultural function.
Applying a regional lens encourages us to think more expansively about the
disparate geographies that might exist within the space of one small town
or across continents and oceans.
We produce:
RR01: A Map Without Boundaries by artist Matthew Friday
RR02: Greetings from the Cornbelts by artist Claire Pentecost
RR03: Yock, Yok: Feresteh Toosi
RR04: The Secret Collection, Patrick Lichty
RR05: Between the Bottomlands & the World, Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross
Ryan Griffis, Sarah Ross
With invaluable help from Sharon Irish
Regular counseling by (and in) the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor
Regional Relationships works with artists, scholars, writers and activists
to create works that investigate the natural, industrial and cultural landscapes
of a region.
It is a platform to re-imagine the spaces and cultural histories around us.
An invitation to join in seeing what we can learn—and learning what
we can see—by juxtaposing spaces and narratives that are usually kept
apart.
Popular beliefs about human geography are composed of binary oppositions
like “urban” and “rural” and “cosmopolitan” and “provincial”.
These divisions naturalize synthetic borders and harden political boundaries,
obsfucating their cultural function.
Applying a regional lens encourages us to think more expansively about the
disparate geographies that might exist within the space of one small town
or across continents and oceans.
We produce: