Affective Cartographies: Mapping the artistic-bodies of Southwark's Outcast Dead

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This project attempts to expand one of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's stated principles of their'rhizomatic' image of thought, cartography, by using it as a lens through which to examine thecommunity project associated with a much-overlooked site of historical and spiritual importance.Following Deleuze and Guattari, cartography is considered here not as the systematic rendering ofthe physical world into representation, but as a mode of apprehending multiplicities of information.The map elucidates geographies which may be visible, listenable, touchable, traceable, imaginable.The site in question is Crossbones Garden of Remembrance in Southwark, a once-forgottenunconsecrated burial ground, reclaimed as a memorial garden for the 'Outcast Dead'. The particularintertwining relations mapped here, memory and affect, are situated as the lifeblood of the site. Thisconcerns memory and affect as embodied in the material elements of the site, and crucially, theflows of memory and affect attached to performance and kinship. Refiguring the map of a territoryin this way sets out to challenge the framing of performance and materiality as bound to a particularplace or time, instead attempting to pin down the traces of a creative practice as they are carried bybodies. In this way, the performance does not meet some finite resolution; rather, the frameself-breaks into many more, mapped by flows of memory and affect.