water projects

"Indras Cloud," Anne Percoco, artist

Thanks to Ledia Carroll of the Land Arts listserv, who sent this heads up about two water and boat projects in India and New York.

"Indra's Cloud"

VRINDAVAN, INDIA. Working with the local N.G.O. Friends of Vrindavan and hosted by Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana, Anne Percoco created a mobile public sculpture which brings to life a local myth and draws attention to the severely

and

Those About to Die Salute You, a battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries, will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 6 pm in a flooded World’s Fair-era reflecting pool in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, just outside of the Queens Museum of Art. Various types of vessels have been designed and constructed by artist provocateur Duke Riley and his collaborators: the galleons, some made of reeds harvested in the park, will be used to stage a citywide battle of the art museums in which representatives from the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and El Museo del Barrio will battle before a toga-clad crowd of frenzied onlookers.


More images of the battle here
and here

ARCHITECTURE + WEATHER: CURRENT ISSUE OF ON SITE

A recommended read from Chris Taylor on the Land Arts Listserve this week. Table of contents available online here: http://www.onsitereview.ca/currentissue.html

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (UK and COPENHAGEN)

Shared by Katherine E. Bash on the Land Arts Listserve this week:

1mile² is a three year global arts programme that asks communities to map the biodiversity, cultural diversity, and aesthetic diversity of their local neighbourhood, working in collaboration with an artist and an ecologist. Communities are linked across the world through an internet platform that shares and challenges their findings, perceptions, ideas, experiences and creativity and encourages new connections between people.

www.square-mile.net

Applications are invited from artists working in digital media, photography, text, storytelling, performance poetry, installation or interdisciplinary practice who are living and working near the participating communities.

1mile² provides opportunities for contemporary artists to undertake a collaborative investigation of arts, biodiversity and community.

1mile² UK artist to India/China/Bangladesh - deadline for applications 9 September 2009 -from the visiting arts website

New Life Happenings

Propose a happening or event for 10.000 participants in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Conference. Your concept should involve collective action and will be implemented alongside New Life Happenings by artist groups Superflex (DK) and Signa (DK/A) among others.

Proposals should focus on the collaborative power of 10.000 people and should question the cultural habits of those involved. Selected proposals will be practically implemented in Copenhagen during the festival period in collaboration with our partners.

By asking artists to develop happenings for a new life - and then request that the 10.000 participants realize them - NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN aims beyond the traditional art exhibition to become an active organizer of experiments in civic engagement and social empowerment.

Open posted on wooloo.org

CALL FOR PAPERS: Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation

From the Land Arts Listserve:

Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation
School of Architecture and the Built Environment/School of Media, Arts and Design
University of Westminster, London, UK
25-27 June 2010

Keynote Speakers:

Gabriele Basilico
Stephen Daniels
Christophe Girot
Jonathan Hill


Call for Papers

In the space of a few decades, social, political, technological, and economic forces have transformed the planet. The past thirty years have seen an erosion of the boundary between urban and rural, a major restructuring of nation-states, and the disappearance of easy distinctions between human and natural agency. New media technologies collapse distance, bringing us images of a world of uncertain boundaries. In an era of digitally-enabled, synchronous histories and shifting geopolitical realities, landscape has changed its nature. No longer straightforwardly linked to nationalism or aesthetics, landscape in the twenty-first century is an emergent form, shaped by globalization, conflict, and environmental change. Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the synergies between the disciplines of photography and architecture, this international conference will examine and critically reassess the interface between production and representation in the creation of contemporary landscape.

Landscape is posed variously as a discourse that mediates our relations to the land and to others, a dynamic medium, and a cultural practice. It incorporates ideology - social and political discourse, history, and myth - and phenomenology -lived experience and memory. It is linked historically, technologically and aesthetically, to ways of seeing. Informed in large part by changing definitions of landscape in the social sciences, the past few decades have seen profound transformations in the understanding of landscape across a range of disciplines.

The conference asks practitioners, writers, critics, artists, and others working in the broad fields of the built environment (i.e. architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design) and the represented environment (i.e. photography, film, and the visual arts) to reconsider the idea of landscape by interrogating the relationship between space and image. We invite participants from these and related disciplines to explore the synergies that exist between landscape representation (the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment) and landscape production (the physical and material changes wrought on the land).

Emerging Landscapes proposes a platform on which practitioners and researchers working in landscape-related disciplines can engage in a mutual and productive exchange - of ideas, practices, paradigms, and theories, but also of methodologies and histories. It asks contributors to examine the potential intersections between the theoretical/critical discourses developed in these fields, and to consider those points where the interactions between viewing and making open out onto broader ethical or philosophical terrain.

Papers are invited on any aspect of the conference theme. Topics may include but are not limited to:
* globalization, national identities and contested landscapes
* changing visions of landscape in photography, film, and visual art
* landscapes of the everyday
* non-places, junkspace, unprogrammed urban spaces, interim and temporary landscapes
* the influence of digital technologies and new media
* ecology; changing notions of nature and 'the natural'
* the impact of visual images on the way landscapes are perceived and lived
* landscape, the body, and the senses
* the relationship between landscape representation and landscape design
* subjectivity and the politics of viewpoint
* memorializing landscapes; sites of memory and sites of trauma
* landscape and narrative
* landscape and utopia

An edited collection of selected papers is planned for publication following the conference.

Submissions:
Please send a 500-word abstract, along with your name, position, and institutional affiliation, to
emerginglandscapes@wmin.ac.uk
and/or
Emerging Landscapes Conference
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
United Kingdom

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 30 OCTOBER 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 2010
Registration Opens: March 2010

MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE SOON ON www.emerginglandscapes.org.uk

Imaging the Land International Research Institute (ILIRI)

ochre house artist's residence at Fowler's Gap, New South Wales, Australia

The Land Arts Listserv sends news of residencies and initiatives offered through the
the Imaging the Land International Research Institute (ILIRI).

The ILIRI was the initiative of Dr Idris Murphy, Ian Grant and Louise Fowler-Smith. Operating out of the School of Art at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in Sydney Australia, ILIRI aims to open a dialogue across a wide spectrum of contemporary approaches to imaging the land, from indigenous and non-indigenous, local and international perspectives and to promote new ways of perceiving the land in the 21st century.

Under Louise Fowler-Smith’s current directorship ILIRI’s interests have grown to incorporate cross-disciplinary projects that explore how we perceive and ultimately live in a land particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Check out details about opportunities and programs here.

Updates on the Spiral Jetty

photo: Jamie Kruse 2007

From Chris Taylor on the Land Arts Listserve:

Recent discussions about the Spiral Jetty.

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2009/07/examining_the_latest_threat_to.html

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2009/07/conservators_talk_spiral_jetty.html

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2009/07/yesterday_i_posted_about_a.html

http://blog.art21.org/2009/07/21/extending-the-conservation-framework-a-site-specific-conservation-discussion-with-francesca-esmay/

Land Arts in Outer Space

Chris Taylor sends a heads up about two exhibitions that extend "land" arts from the earth to the moon and beyond. Deceitful Moon is at the Hayward in London and Orthostatic Tolerance is at the ICA in Philadelphia (see below).

Tavares Strachan: Orthostatic Tolerance

Tavares Strachan's Orthostatic Tolerance is currently on view at the ICA in Philadelphia: http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/strachan.php You can read Strachan's artist statement here: http://lhfproduction.com/ot/page0/page0.html

And at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, Southbank Centre, London:

Aleksandra Mir First Woman on the Moon (detail),
1999 © The artist 2009

Deceitful Moon
21 July - 31 August 2009

FEATURED ARTISTS: TOM DALE, WILLIAM HOGARTH, MATTHEW DAY JACKSON & DAVID TOMPKINS, GRANT MORRISON & CAMERON STEWART, ALEKSANDRA MIR, AMALIA PICA, SAM PORRITT, KAREN RUSSO, JOHANNES VOGL, KEITH WILSON, CAREY YOUNG

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Deceitful Moon is an exhibition in the Hayward Gallery Project Space that explores the moon as a site for misinformation, misrepresentation and mistrust. Touching on a long-standing tradition of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that found its first modern expression in the 'Great Moon Hoax' played by The New York Sun in 1835 (in which a series of newspaper articles detailed life on the moon as observed through a powerful telescope) the show, like the tarot card that bears its name, turns on obfuscation and doubt.

Deceitful Moon is, in part, a response to the current vogue for exhibitions marking the anniversary of major events in world history. But rather than commemorating Neil Armstrong's famous 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind', it pays tribute to a lingering uncertainty somewhere on the dark side of our cultural imagination as to whether human feet have ever touched the moon's grey, inhospitable surface.

While the Apollo 11 mission was concerned with scientific verification and the glory of a nation and of a species, the works in Deceitful Moon propose speculative 'lunar landings' of a different sort. Satires of social and political control share space with meditations on technological absurdity, perception and misperception, and a very earthbound form of moon-gazing romanticism.

Deceitful Moon is curated by Tom Morton, Curator at the Hayward Gallery.

Miss Rockaway Armada Takes Philly

The bicycle-powered Ferris Wheel on board the Armada in 2006, photo: Allen Brisson-Smith for The New York Times

This week via the Land Arts of the American West listserve we learned that the Miss Rockaway Armada will be floating into Philly sometime this year. Their work for this project will be supported through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.

Visit the Armada's project site to learn more about the team and their high-seas adventures.

Cabinet Magazine's National Library in Deming, NM gets refurbished

Cabinet Magazine photo

Chris Taylor forwards news from Matt Passmore of Rebar. Rebar built the Cabinet National Library outside of Deming, NM in 2003, and Passmore posted photos from this summer's recent, big refurbishing effort. You can view them here.

Call Bill Gilbert during KUNM's call-in program

Bill Gilbert

Bill Gilbert sends word (via the Land Arts Listserv) that he'll be a guest on KUNM's June 26 call-in show (8a.m.-9 a.m. MST). Bill holds the Lannan Chair in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico, founder of the Land Arts of the American West program and a curator of New Mexico's LAND/ART, a collaborative exploration of land art in New Mexico. During the show, you can give Bill a call with a question about land art: 505-277-5866 or toll-free 877-899-5866.Arcie Chapa talk with Bill about Land Art, a form of art which came to prominence in the late 1960's, primarily as a protest against the ruthless commercialization of art in America. Materials such as rocks, sticks, soil and plants are often used and the works exists in the open and are left to change and erode under natural conditions. Beginning this summer and continuing through the fall a group of New Mexico arts organizations have joined together to present, LAND/ART New Mexico, which will explore relationships of land, art and community through exhibitions and lectures.

Call for proposals: Public

Announced on the Land Arts Listserv this past week:

UBLIC: Gardens (new timeline) Call for Proposals Spring 2010

PUBLIC: Gardens will explore the ways gardens are understood and appreciated – as gardens, but also in terms of how they participate in events beyond their borders. We find gardens not only in beautified public spaces, but in backyards, on balconies, down alleyways, in glossy magazines, on tv, and in cyberspace. Gardens are cultural forms that express dreams of paradise, power and privilege, changes in human relationships with nature, and more. They also serve practical, economic and social-psychological purposes: gardens feed people, engage the senses, and provide sites of pleasure, recreation and leisure. Yet, wherever a garden is, other things are not. Gardens stake a (growing) claim on space, consume resources, require our attention, and set limits on plant growth and non-human activities. Never innocent, full of possibility, gardens provide a rich terrain for investigation.

This issue of Public is interested in (real and imagined) explorations of gardens by artists, activists, writers, theorists, historians, scholars, landscape architects, designers, and gardeners
interested in the myriad significance of public and private gardens, including the politics of their location and modes of operation in various contexts.

Topics and themes of interest include (but are not limited by):
- garden as art (e.g. artist gardens, horticultural intervention art)
- garden as idea (gardens in writing, on screen and in our imaginations)
- garden politics and gardening as a political practice
- guerilla gardening
- utopian gardens
- permaculture, the city as garden, and the garden city
- cultivated wilderness, forest gardens, pollinator gardens
- community gardens (allotments, sustenance and victory gardens, communal gardens etc.)
- edible gardens
- flowers, weeds and seeds
- seed vaults and other preservation projects
- living roofs and plant walls
- outerspace gardening; underwater gardening
- garden web cams and virtual gardening (e.g. Second Life)
- public and private gardens
- history and theories of gardens

Interested contributors are strongly invited to contact the editors to discuss their proposed projects and papers. Proposals and abstracts will be reviewed (for conditional acceptance) up until July 3 2009. The deadline for submission of complete papers and projects is August 15 2009.

This issue will be co-edited by Erin Despard and Monika Kin Gagnon. Please email us at edespard@alcor.concordia.ca and mkgagnon@gmail.com. For more information on the journal, Public: http://www.publicjournal.ca

Green Platform

GREEN PLATFORM

Art Ecology Sustainability

24 April – 19 July 2009

curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gensini

at the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina
Palazzo Strozzi, piazza Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Artists

Alterazioni Video, Amy Balkin, Andrea Caretto e Raffaella Spagna, Michele Dantini, Ettore Favini, Futurefarmers, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Katie Holten, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Christiane Löhr, Dacia Manto, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Julian Rosefeldt, Carlotta Ruggieri, Superflex, Nicola Toffolini, Nikola Uzunovski

curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Valentina Gensini

Green Platform examines, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the issue of the environment in the dual sense of a crisis in our thermo-industrial society based on non-renewable sources of energy and of an ecological crisis caused by pollution and by the worrying overheating of our planet. The problem of ecology is analyzed and understood in its myriad philosophical, psychological, environmental, economic and social implications. Green Platform defines ecology not merely as a natural science but as a science of interrelations, confines and cross-border osmosis, the focal link in the partnership between nature and culture.

The exhibition presents a series of works by international artists who, acting in the wake of the pioneer experience that developed in the avant-garde movements of the Sixties and Seventies, address the issues of the environment, ecology and sustainability.

Green Platform offers various kinds of active experience: workshops with artists and other players in the environmental associations and NGO's, a series of lectures with experts in various relevant disciplines and the screening of videos and documentaries on environment-related issues.

Contemporary Tate - May 2009 - Richard Long

This from Chris Taylor and the Land Arts Listserv:

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For details, see the Tate website.

Land Arts Listserv: Tacita Dean, JG Ballard and the Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty, a 1970 earthworks sculpture of a 1,500 foot long spiral made of 6,650 tons of black basalt. Photograph: George Steinmetz/Corbis

Chris Taylor sent out a notice this week (on the Land Arts Listserv) of Tacita Dean's recent article marking the passing of JG Ballard. The piece reflects upon Dean and Ballard's shared interest in Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. The original article can be accessed in the Guardian.

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Land Arts Listserv: Constructural Theory and Land Arts

First, second and third order constructs of the constructal design of a cooling system.
Coolant, cooled material and heated fluid are respectively shown in blue, yellow and red.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

"...if a flow system (e.g. river basin, vascularized tissue, city traffic) is endowed with sufficient freedom to change its configuration, the system exhibits configurations that provide progressively better access routes for the currents that flow." --Adrian Bejan, Gilbert W. Merkx, Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics

Today's Land Arts Listserv saw a flurry of comments in response to Andrea Gomez's post about her email exchange with Adrian Bejan on "Constructal Theory" and its potential relevance to Land Arts. The theory predicts animal design and geophysical flows and makes evolution a part of physics.

Here's Andrea's post and responses from Bill Gilbert, Chris Taylor and Bill Fox:

Andrea Gomez:
Last week, I wrote to Adrian Bejan, a professor at Duke, about landarts.org. He has developed a way of understanding design in nature which he calls Constructal Theory. There are many parallels in his vision and in much of the landarts work. He agreed and asked me to make his
website known to those on the listserve. I've copied his response to me below because I'd rather he explained his thinking. I will add to it, though, that people in all disciplines, from engineering to poetry, find Constructal theory applicable--a wide umbrella, much like landarts.

Adrian Bejan:
"Thank you very much for making this connection! This work is superb, and a lot closer to my thinking than I have written yet. Basically, all of design in nature (including animal design) is flow with configuration, and that means scouring the earth's crust. Many of the images in this book and the other presentations are about the scouring---with the constructal law, in them I see the flow designs. Please tell Chris Taylor about the work being done with the constructal law, plus www.constructal.org I think this connection would be fabulous."
Andrea Gomez
www.gomezart.net

Bill Gilbert:
Andrea,
Many thanks for the link to Adrian and the Constructal Theory site.
At UNM we are expanding the Land Arts program into a new Art & Ecology area with a close relationship to the sciences. I will have to spend some time getting up to speed with Constructal Theory.

In my own work, I have been collaborating with Biologist and head of Sustainability Studies Bruce Milne here at UNM. We recently completed a proposal for a fractal based, native species planting design for Lucy Lippard's Weather Report exhibition in Boulder.

I look forward to an expanded conversation.
Best,
Bill Gilbert
Lannan Chair
Land Arts of the American West

Chris Taylor:
Hi Andrea,

Thanks for this great addition to the list. I look forward to spending some time with the resources on www.constructal.org. The first thought that popped was how this seemed like a combination of Juhani Pallasmaa's _Animal Architecture_ and Don Kunze's "Boundary Lanuage". (Curious to see the the connection with Adrian's collaborator to Penn State. . .)
During recent Q & A sessions at the New School and Yale the question came up about specific linkages between Land Arts and science. While our work has definitely been open to those connections for some time, there remains much opportunity to make the relationships more fertile (in all directions).
Thanks,
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Bill Fox:
Hi All,
The linkages among art, geography, and systems science--and how those transdisciplinary arcs give rise to land arts as a general mode of operation--are exactly the subjects for the book I've started work on this year, The Art of the Anthropocene. It starts with Alexander von Humboldt's discovery of isotherms and the invention of ecology at the beginning of the 19th century, and his influence on painters such as Church and Turner, then through early formations of ecology (Marsh, et al) and photographic typologies--and then onto minimalism and Arte Povera (both with roots in systems science) and into earthworks, land arts, and climate science.
Sort of a tangle at the moment, but the links are there and robust, and it's not surprising that people would inquire about the relationships among the sciences and land arts.
Bill

William L. Fox

Director, Center for Art + Environment

Nevada Museum of Art

160 West Liberty Street

Reno, Nevada 89501

Land Arts Listserve: Spacebuster

Kitchen Monument by Raumlaborberlin with Plastique Fantastique,
Duisburg, Germany 2006, photo by Marco Canevacci)

Ahoy all,

This seems worth checking out. . . . and considering as a strategy deploying further afield. . .

Brings to mind the filling of Double Negative
and, the Uberorgan.

10 DAYS OF EVENTS IN A MOBILE PAVILION RAUMLABOR BERLIN: SPACEBUSTER MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN, 17-26 APRIL Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure that serves as an entirely portable, expandable pavilion. A new iteration of a past Raumlabor project, the Küchenmonument (presented in Europe in 2006-8), Storefront will bring Spacebuster to the US for the first time this April, when it will travel throughout New York for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events. Click here for more information

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Land Arts Listserv: LAND/ART 2009 Project in New Mexico

Photo courtesy of LAND/ART

Hi all,
Over the past year I have been working with Suzanne Sbarge, director of 516 gallery, and Kathleen Shields on the LAND/ART 2009 project. This summer and fall over fifteen venues in Santa Fe and Albuquerque will present exhibitions, performances, lectures, and films addressing the relationship between land and art. Radius Books will publish a culminating book on the project in December. Former Land Arts of the American West participants will be featured in at least five different exhibitions.

You can find more information on the project and a schedule of events at landartnm.org.

I hope to see you at some of the events.
Best,
Bill Gilbert

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Land Arts Listserv: Field Reports reviewed in Artlies

L. Chris Taylor, Projecting Art Lies into the Void, near Deming, New Mexico, 11 OCT 2006
R. Jenna Price, Performing Land Arts: The Philadelphia Experiment, 2009

April 12, 2009 11:05:11 AM EDT

Ahoy all,

Yesterday I learned that the new issue of Artlies has a review of the exhibition "Field Reports: documents and strategies from Land Arts of the American West" at Temple Gallery in Philadelphia. Since the review is not on their website, i encourage everyone to pick up a physical copy. In the meantime here's a late production draft.

Travel well,

_chris

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Land Arts listserv: Land Arts and Atacama Land at Parsons/New School

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Barbara Palomino (Incubo), Gonzalo Pedraza (Incubo) and Chris Taylor (Land Arts of the American West)

Posted on Listserv on April 11, 2009 4:06:21 PM EDT

Ahoy all,

The Land Arts and Incubo Atacama Lab panel discussion yesterday at Parsons was well attended and received. It was great to see alumni from the program---thanks Jessica, Amanda, Chappell, and Alex for making the effort. The event was video tapped and will be posted on the School of Design Strategies at some point soon. I know some of you asked about that and I'll send out the link as soon as it's live.

Yesterday was an interesting day at the New School. I arrived as the police were shutting down the intersection of 5th Avenue and 13th Street. After talking my way through two police barricades I made it inside and upstairs where I was scheduled to visit with a studio Cameron Tonkinwise is co-teaching. Evidently earlier Friday morning a group of student protesters had occupied the building catty-corner across the intersection. From Cameron's studio we could see the police continue to amass (there were easily over 100) and prepare to retake the building. This involved getting up on the roof to remove the protest banners left by the student group and to cover the security cameras. My first thought of course was how are we going to have a panel discussion with our visitors from Chile in a building nearly inaccessible to the public on account of the police blockade. . . Well fortunately for the panel the stand off ended some time during lunch and the majority of police presence (and their riot control units) left. The Chileans took the whole episode as an homage and thought of it as a welcoming gesture. Unfortunately for the protesters some the police response got a bit out of hand----dueling videos can be found here.

Chris Taylor

All in all it was a very successful day for Land Arts and Incubo. Many thanks to Miodrag Mitrasinovic for organizing and putting the event together, to Joel Towers, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, for a wonderful introduction and contextualization relative to the new programmatic initiatives at the New School, to Carin Kuoni, Director of the Vera List Center, for serving as an outstanding moderator and respondent, and to Flora Vilches and the members of Incubo, Josefina Guilisasti, Bárbara Palomino, and Gonzalo Pedraza, for traveling from Santiago to share their work.

As I mentioned on Thursday a shipment of the books documenting the Chile project arrived in Lubbock last week, so orders through Amazon should be filled in a relatively timely manner. . . .
Info here.

Travel well,
_chris

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