New Exhibit: Travel Posters & Soundscapes

A brand new pupil artwork present, Travel Posters & Soundscapes, is now on show within the Russo Gallery by means of Winter Term. The exhibit incorporates a assortment of soundscapes and activist posters created by the scholars from this fall’s COCO 26: What’s in Your Toolbox? The Politics of Travel within the Context of Globalization class.

Taught by Professors Casey Aldrich & Mokhtar Bouba, the course is designed to supply college students with a chance to replicate on why and the way we journey.

The works problem the standard deal with “sightseeing” by foregrounding sound and selling conscious, moral journey. As an experiential class, college students turned Dartmouth and the Upper Valley into their “travel destination”, training curiosity and demanding reflection to achieve a deep “sense of place”.

The exhibit options interactive student-produced soundscapes of Dartmouth/Hanover/the Upper Valley in addition to the scholars’ residence communities, which prioritize the artwork of listening to entry a deeper understanding of house and place.

The posters are designed to lift consciousness about important questions surrounding journey, tourism, and globalization, comparable to:

• How usually can we contemplate the influence of our presence within the communities we go to?
• How do tourism’s multi-billion-dollar trade and colonial legacies form our perceptions of locations and folks?
• How does journey change our notion and understanding of ourselves and our houses?