curating and personal mapping: examples and links

some inspiring examples...
I have been thinking about how this concept of curating and personal mapping can be used in community art projects and found some inspiring examples...

I Am a Curator (support structure phase 1: art)
Audiences at the Chisenhale Gallery in London could curate their own exhibition for one day from a collection of “sculpture, video, sound works, painting, performance proposals, drawing, social intervention and action descriptions. The result was 30 shows, each documented and presented on the Chisenhale website archive”

walking & talking (support structure phase 5: education)A series of walks (think of landscape artist Richard Long)
“A public call was made and over a 6 month residency, Condorelli and Wade were taken on walks and talks around Wivenhoe park, researching and recording the diversity of the University in the same way that it was originally conceived. The walks and talks act as a register of collective memory and experience of the site from its creation to now. The conversations led to the production of a set of temporary signs located around the site to encourage conversation and an awareness of social acts.”

Safe Harbor (Red Hook, Brooklyn) Choreographer Martha Bowers’ “multi-media outdoor performance piece that walked audience members through the community to visit staged vignettes that told some of the community’s stories, in some cases, from the residents themselves.”

anywhere-somewhere-everywhere (Nottingham)
A public event at the site of a planned renewal project featured a self-guided walk using a handheld video player with curated content including maps, recordings, and images “as an approach to curating architecture in situ”(51), created by artist/choreographer Cie Willi Dorner

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube by Michael Wesch and the Digital Ethnography Working Group at Kansas State University. See also Michael Wesch's website Mediated Cultures.
This isn’t an art project, but it is an entertaining and thought-provoking lecture about digital media as a community-building tool. It addresses a broad scope of activities that are not exactly relevant to the kind of community building I am thinking about, but it opened up my mind to possibilities for communicating and curating information about a specific place by using the web and the “vlogosphere” to share through amateur video, photography, and sound, individual perspectives on a place. The lecture/video is 55 minutes long but I found it flew by.