(No, Really. You are. Aren't you?)
When
Friday, March 21, 3:30 pm - ENR2 Building, Room S107 - University of Arizona
Free Event, no registration needed - Reception with refreshments will follow
In person and live-streamed event - Zoom registration Here
Join us for the 2025 edition of My Arizona Lecture Series!
The cartographer’s favorite declarative statement, “you are here,” is an ongoing invitation to ask ourselves and each other, again and again, “Where, exactly?” then tend to the answers that come. What does it mean to be somewhere, in sync with the energy of location or locality, and what responsibility or action does that presence presume? Writer, artist, and wayward geographer Kimi Eisele shares a series of her works with landscapes, plants, humans, and other animals reflecting explorations and research into this oft-borrowed phrase. Eisele’s practice explores embodied, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual questions of “here-ness,” through literary, visual, and performance works.
Kimi Eisele is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and folklorist in Tucson, Arizona. Her work seeks to illuminate connections among humans, plants, animals, and landscapes. She is the author of The Lightest Object in the Universe (Algonquin Books, 2019), about loss and adaptation in a post-apocalyptic America, and her essays and articles have appeared in Guernica, Longreads, Orion Magazine, High Country News, and elsewhere. She holds a master's degree in geography from the University of Arizona, where in 1998 she founded You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography. She has received grants from the Arts Foundation of Southern Arizona, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Kresge Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Tucson and works for the Southwest Folklife Alliance.