Bill Gilbert – Physiocartographies and Erika Osborne – Wood Work

Bill Gilbert – Physiocartographies and Erika Osborne – Wood Work

Oct 14 – Nov 19 2010

The Mesaros Galleries

Located in the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia

Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday, noon – 9:30pm.

Bill Gilbert will give an artist lecture on Oct 28^th at 5pm in Bloch Hall at the Creative Arts Center. A reception for the exhibition will follow.

Erika Osborne will give an artist lecture on Nov 4^th at 5pm in Bloch Hall at the Creative Arts Center. A reception will also follow this event.

Bill Gilbert and Erika Osborne share a field-based approach to art-making that stems from their time working together with the Land Arts of the American West Program at the University of New Mexico – a program that Gilbert founded. Since, they have continued this approach to art-making and education – Gilbert as the Lannan Endowed Chair of the Land Arts of the American West program, and as co-founder of the new Art and Ecology emphasis in studio art at the University of New Mexico, and Osborne as assistant professor of art at West Virginia University, teaching field courses such as Art and Environment and Place:Appalachia. Coming from backgrounds in sculpture and painting, their work changed dramatically as they began to exploit their time in the field. As a result, their pieces often incorporate digital technologies, alternative drawing tools and surfaces, the physical body, and materials from site visits to translate experiences in the field back to the gallery context.

For more information, including location of galleries and gallery hours, please visit http://artanddesign.wvu.edu/mesaros_galleries/current_exhibitions

The Nature of Place: Land Art/Land Use with LHI

2009 LHI Art-Sci Symposium from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.

A short video documenting the 2009 LHI Art-Sci Symposium, "The Nature of Place: Land Art/Land Use" with speakers including artist Joan Jonas, Erik Knutzen (Center for Land Use Interpretation), writer/curator Lucy Lippard, visual artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz, art historian Ann Reynolds, Allucquere Rosanne Stone (ACTLab, UT-Austin), Chris Taylor (Land Arts of the American West), archeologist Alston Thoms, and Ramon Vasquez (American Indians in Texas) has just been completed by Walley Films and can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/15426230 or on the Facebook page of Land Heritage Institute.

Planning is currently in progress for the 2011 LHI Art-Sci Symposium, tentatively titled "Land as Lab: Artists, Scientists and Historians." Speaker suggestions may be sent to penelope.boyer@gmail.com, Land Heritage Institute special project coordinator responsible for LHI Art-Sci Symposium concept and execution.

Patrick Nagatani at the UNM Art Museum

Tuesday, October 5th at 5:30 pm The UNM Art Museum's Distinguished Speaker Series in conjunction with the exhibition "Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008" “A Conversation in Three Parts” by Michele Penhall, UNMAM Curator of Desire for Magic, in conversation with Patrick Nagatani, Artist and Professor Emeritus, and Christopher Kaltenbach, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Patrick Nagatani, Model A Woody, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (VLA) Plains of St. Agustin, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1997/1999, Silver dye bleach print Desire for Magic: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008 was conceived as the first comprehensive look at the many and varied projects the artist has worked on since 1978, including examples from Nagatani | Tracey Polaroid Collaborations, the Japanese American Concentration Camps portfolio, Nuclear Enchantment, Novellas, Nagatani | Ryoichi Excavations, Chromatherapy, and the large masking tape works he calls Tape-estries. The book is available for purchase at the UNM Art Museum, $75 hardback, 260 pages, with 5 gate folds. Desire For Magic: Patrick Nagatani, Book Cover, published 2010 All talks in the Distinguished Speaker Series will be held at the UNM Art Museum and are FREE and open to the public. Please join us! The UNM Art Museum is located on the campus of UNM in the Center for the Arts, adjacent to Popejoy Hall. Open Tuesday - Friday: 10-4, Saturday & Sunday: 1-4 and during the evening talks. The Distinguished Speaker Series is sponsored by the UNM Art Museum in cooperation with the Department of Art & Art History.

UNM Art Museum | MSC04 2570 l 1 University of New Mexico l Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001 artmuse@unm.edu | 505.277.4001 | www.unm.edu/~artmuse/

Call for Proposals: Jersey Barrier Initiative (Fall 2010)

This fall, the New York City Department of Transportation is partnering again with the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit and New York Cares to paint selected barrier sites around the City. DOT invites artists and/or designers to envision the surface of these ordinary barriers as canvases for art. All interested artists are eligible to submit materials to this open call. Submissions must be received no later than close of business on Friday, October 15, 2010 to be considered. DOT will contact selected artists in late October to implement designs at specific barrier sites with support from volunteers organized by NY Cares. Visit www.nyc.gov/urbanart to download the official Request for Proposals and other relevant information.

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SCIENCE AND THE ARTS

News and Updates from Science & the Arts The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) view our website

Powers of Ten Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 pm Elebash Recital Hall Celebrate 10 / 10 / 10 (a few days early). We will observe the date with a tribute to the classic short film Powers of Ten, by designers Charles and Ray Eames. The film is a 9-minute journey of scale, from the infinitesimal to the cosmic. Powers of Ten encourages rich, cross-disciplinary thought that approaches ideas from multiple interrelated perspectives, at all orders of magnitude. One of the most widely seen short films of all time—at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for decades and still widely used in schools around the world—Powers of Ten has influenced pop culture from The Simpsons to the rock band Coldplay, from Hummer commercials to the movie Men in Black. Discussion with D Graham Burnett (Historian of Science, Princeton University), and Eames Demetrios, grandson of the filmmakers, who is dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending their work. Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and Cabinet magazine. Free, no reservations required. The Big Bang Theory Friday, October 29, 7:00 pm Proshansky Auditorium The Making of The Big Bang Theory -- How does the CBS television situation-comedy The Big Bang Theory keep its science references accurate? David Saltzberg (UCLA, Department of Physics), the series consultant, will explain the science behind the hit comedy. Saltzberg checks scripts and meets with the producers, writers, actors, set decorators, prop masters and costume designers to help ensure scientific accuracy. He also writes a blog The Big Blog Theory that explains the science in each episode. Free. Click to reserve your seat. Conference Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 30 CUNY Graduate Center Science & the Arts will sponsor the conference Communicating Science to the Public through the Performing Arts, addressing science as depicted and disseminated through theatre, dance, music, film, TV, festivals and cafes. There is a modest registration fee. For registration information see the conference website. The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves Tuesday, September 28 6:00 pm Segal Theatre Siri Hustvedt, bestselling novelist and author of the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, will offer a reading as well as a discussion of neuroscience, psychoanalysis and the novel. Introduction by Graduate Center President William P. Kelly. Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), author of Brain Storm: Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences, will serve as discussant. Hustvedt is also the author of the novels: The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, and The Blindfold. “Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind. Hustvedt’s erudite book deepens one’s wonder about the relation of body and mind.” — Oliver Sacks Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts, The Center for Women and Society, the Center for the Humanities and the Ph.D. Program in English. Free, no reservations required. Creation Wednesday, Oct. 20, 7:00 pm Elebash Recital Hall A screening of Creation, a film about Charles Darwin's struggles to come to terms with his emotions, intellect and faith. The screening will be preceded by a discussion with the eminent biologists Sean B Carroll and Cliff Tabin, moderated by science writer Carl Zimmer. Expected appearance by filmmaker Jon Amiel. Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Imagine Science Film Festival. Free, no reservations required. Copenhagen Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm Elebash Recital Hall Copenhagen: A Reading and A Discussion. Join us for a reading of selections from the award-winning play Copenhagen, performed by Break A Leg Productions, and a discussion with scientists and historians. Free, no reservations required.

Welikia Project

Dear Mannahatta Project followers:

It is with great pride that I would like to announce to you the commencement of the Welikia Project, beyond Mannahatta, an effort to document the historical ecology of all of New York City and compare it to the current biodiversity of the city. The Wildlife Conservation Society is taking what we learned about 1609 ecology, mapping and visualization and applying it to the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, where another six million New Yorkers live and work and care about the nature and wildlife around them.

You can read more about this new project at our redesigned homepage: welikia.org. Note all the Mannahatta materials - education curricula, map explorer, GIS layers and papers, video explanations, discussion boards, and so on - are still available through welikia.org.

You can support the project by sharing this email with your friends and colleagues and by supporting your favorite borough at welikia.org/explore. By making a donation of any size to the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, or Staten Island, you will become a "Welikia" Landscape Ecology insider for that borough, with exclusive, early access to our discoveries as the Welikia Project unfolds over the next three years. Already you can read about a French reconnaissance of the western Bronx in 1781, importance of early topographic surveys of Staten Island and Daniel Denton's overflowing accounts of western Long Island in the 17th century.

“Welikia” means “my good home” in Lenape, the Native American language spoken in the New York City region 400 years ago, when Henry Hudson brought Europe's attention to this part of the world. (It’s pronounced “WAY-lee-ki-a” – hear it on the Lenape-Talking Dictionary website and scroll down to the bottom of the page). Not surprisingly, the Lenape didn't have a term for the greater city of New York, which wouldn't be formed for another three hundred years, so we borrowed "Welikia" to represent the fulsome ecology of our region - past, present and future.

If you have any questions or suggestions, we would love to hear them at support@welikia.org.

Sincerely,

Eric Sanderson
Wildlife Conservation Society

FIELD NOTES: OBSERVING LAKE UNION

UPCOMING STUDIO FOR URBAN PROJECTS EVENT

Field Notes: Observing Lake Union An audio tour on Seattle's Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop by the Studio for Urban Projects

LAKE UNION PARK OPENING Saturday, September 25 Lake Union Park, Seattle Westlake Ave N. and Valley St. 11:00am-2:00pm WALKING TOUR Saturday, October 23 Lake Union Park, Seattle Westlake Ave N. and Valley St. 3:00-5:00 pm WILD FOODS DINNER Saturday, October 23 Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley Street, Seattle 5:00-7:00 pm RSVP/TICKETS To RSVP for the walking tour please e-mail us at:rsvp@studioforurbanprojects.org Tickets for the Wild Foods dinner are available for purchase through Brown Paper Tickets. WEBSITE fieldnoteslakeunion.net		Field Notes: Observing Lake Union is an audio tour of the Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop, created by the Studio for Urban Projects, that explores how changing conceptions of nature and our place within it have shaped Seattle’s Lake Union over the last two hundred years. The piece focuses on the underlying ecology of Lake Union and its transformation through eras of geologic change, Native American stewardship, European settlement, commercial industry and large-scale infrastructural development as well as urban planning and park design. By experiencing the tour visitors will gain insight into the complex interplay between human values and natural ecologies that have shaped Lake Union today. Lake Union is a landscape that has been dramatically transformed. Over the course of 200 years Lake Union has been radically altered from its pre-Seattle days when it was inhabited for thousands of years by the Duwamish tribe. Field Notes: Observing Lake Union will give visitors insight into the historical topography of the lake and the ways it has been altered. It will focus on traces of Lake Union’s natural ecosystems and habitats and explore how they are being restored by reclamation efforts. The project probes questions relevant to cities everywhere: what are the underlying ecologies of our urban landscapes? How can human systems more thoughtfully integrate into them? Field Notes: Observing Lake Union is created in collaboration with audio engineer Tim Halbur and is commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs with Seattle Department of Transportation and Parks and Recreation 1% for Art funds. Public Events: Lake Union Park Opening The Studio for Urban Projects will launch Field Notes: Observing Lake Union in conjunction with the grand opening of Lake Union Park in Seattle, Washington on September 25. Members from the Studio for Urban Projects will be on-site from 11am to 2pm. Positioned near the main park entrance, Studio members will share information about the piece with visitors, hand out project maps and encourage visitors to share their insights on the Field Notes hotline. Walking Tour The Studio for Urban Projects will host a walking tour of Lake Union Park on Saturday, October 23rd at 3:00 pm. The tour will feature short talks by Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place; David Williams, author of The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from the City as well as several other project contributors. The tour will invite a public dialog around the themes of the project. It is free and open to the public with advanced registration advised. To sign up for the tour please e-mailrsvp@studioforurbanprojects.org. Wild Foods Dinner A wild foods dinner will follow the walking tour. Prepared by Christina Choi of Nettletown, the dinner will feature foods foraged from the region that once would have grown in and around Lake Union. The dinner will be hosted at the Center for Wooden Boats. Tickets are $55.00, including dinner and wine, and may be purchased throughBrown Paper Tickets.

		Founded in 2006 the Studio for Urban Projects is an art and design collaborative that seeks to advance civic engagement and further public dialogue. Founded by Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, Marina McDougall, Kirstin Bach and Daya Karam our interdisciplinary and research-based projects aim to provoke change by re- framing our perceptions of the city and physically transforming elements of the built environment. Our storefront space in the San Francisco Mission District is a public venue for the staging of workshops, talks, film screenings and meals.

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GATHERING OF DESERT PHOTOGRAPHERS

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The Goldwell Open Air Museum is pleased to present a new event to which you are invited. THREE DAYS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT This is a three-day event that brings together photographers, curators and writers with an interest in the desert. The gathering will be held at the Goldwell Open Air Museum located near the famed ghost town of Rhyolite, on the edge of Death Valley and four miles from the town of Beatty, Nevada. Workshops Symposium Portfolio Reviews Photographer Presentations Fee of $525 includes all workshops with the photographers and speakers, Red Barn evening events, Saturday night BBQ, 3 nights hotel in Beatty. SPEAKERS and WORKSHOP LEADERS Michael P. Berman, Photographer Mitch Dobrowner, Photographer William L. Fox, Writer and Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Michael Light, Photographer and Bookmaker Carol McCusker, Curator, Photo Historian, Writer and Educator. Gary Reese, Plant Ecologist and Photographer Fred Sigman, Art Historian, Educator, Photographer/Filmmaker. Director of the Goldwell Gathering.

For Information Do you want to know more about this event or to register? www.goldwellmuseum.org/events Contact Us Fred Sigman Goldwell Open Air Museum (702) 497 6816 email

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Journal of Aesthetics and Protest: printed matter Submission Call

1. Pamphleteer Submission Call

We are participating in...

Printed Matter's 2010 New York Art Book Fair at PS1.

In the spirit of our open policy, we are seeking pamphleteers and collectors whose documents
should be seen by the likes of both New York's literati and collecting classes.

We aim to collect a bunch of small-run stuff that you, exposing what our readers and contributors have been thinking
about. We also see this as a chance for research- a chance to learn what you have been putting together.

We are looking for two classes of submissions;

1. Small booklets for sale or distro(or to be handed out.)
We are looking for booklets of unique research or that are from or about uniquely political subjectivities.
Singular objects or mass produced
Researched projects, unique collections would be amazing.

2. 1 page pamphlets/posters- displayed/handed out or sold.
Ideally, the pamphlets we gather here have been or will have been distributed in some form outside of this context.
a. We are looking for a contradiction of grounded, critical, incendiary, popular and unique voices to be thrown into the mix of the public

sphere.
b. We are not necessarily looking for stuff you've made. If you've collected an outstanding flyer, now would be an opportunity for you to

share it.

To Submit
email: editors@joaap.org
subject heading: pamphlets
provide: description, size, jpg image, price per copy(if any).

If Accepted

We will provide you a mailing address to which you will ship agreed upon number of items.

We will offer you at least 70% of sales on your item.

We can only return items with self-addressed/stamped envelopes.

Deadline:
Please respond by October 11th.

NANCY HOLT: SIGHTLINES

image: Nancy Holt

NANCY HOLT: SIGHTLINES
22 September - 11 December 2010

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery opens its exhibition season with Nancy Holt: Sightlines, a thematic exhibition offering an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time-based media.

Sep 21, 2010, 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM
Opening Reception
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
826 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
1190 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

Since the late 1960s, Nancy Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land Art, films, videos, site-specific installations, artist’s books, concrete poetry and major sculpture commissions. Nancy Holt: Sightlines showcases the artist’s transformation of the perception of the landscape through the use of different observational modes in her early films, videos and related works from 1966 to 1980.

Sightlines encompasses more than 40 works that illuminate Holt’s circumvention of modernist sculptural practice and institutional spaces. Featured in the exhibition are Holt’s film Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the creation of her well-known site-specific work of the same name, and Pine Barrens (1975), a meditative documentary about a notoriously vast, undeveloped region in central New Jersey.


Following its presentation at the Wallach Art Gallery, Sightlines will tour to several venues in the United States and abroad. This exhibition and tour are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.

RELATED EVENTS

Visiting Artist’s Lecture on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 7:30 PM at Miller Theatre, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York. Free and open to the public.

Symposium / Book Launch on Saturday, November 20, 2010, at 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM in 501 Schmerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York. Free and open to the public.

Weekend Film Program Site Recordings: Land Art at Anthology Film Archives from November 19 – 21, 2010 at Anthology Film Archives, New York, with a rare screening of Nancy Holt’s 16-mm prints with the artist in conversation on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 7 PM. Offering a cinematic perspective on Land Art, this three-day program includes shorts and contemporary films and videos that address the significance of the movement’s monuments and anti-monuments by such figures as Robert Smithson, Anthony McCall, Ana Mendieta, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jan Dibbets, and Richard Long. $9 general admission, $7 student/seniors, and $6 AFA members; open to the public.

FLOW SLOW | September 18th

“Flow Slow is a river conference of citizens, artists, writers, technologists & naturalists in celebration of pure water Taking part in the Upper Delaware River, which was recently declared the nation’s most endangered river by American Rivers, the event will occur on Saturday, September 18th and will combine music, art and ongoing conversations during the public float.

Artists, Naturalists, and Concerned Citizens Advocate Pure Water as
Part of the “Flow Slow” Floating River Conference

Brooklyn, NY (For Release 9.15.10) --- In association with SkyDog Projects, ISSUE Project Room, Mildred's Lane, Callicoon Fine Arts, Electronic Music Foundation, Ant Hill Farm, and The Queens Museum, “Flow Slow” gears up for the 1st annual river conference of concerned citizens, artists, writers, technologists & naturalists in celebration of pure water this Saturday, September 18th (see website for complete schedule of events).

Taking part on the Upper Delaware River , which was recently declared the nation’s most endangered river, “Flow Slow” explores the near and long term threats posed by the disastrous “Hydro-Fracking” process carried out by the natural gas industry. The conference will literally take place on the river, floating in canoes, kayaks and other homemade rafts. Other events will take place off the river and will be open to the public.

The event will combine music, art and conversations to creatively produce a variety of works to raise awareness surrounding this critical issue. Artists were advised to engage a piece of technology, a piece of media, an art work, documentation of the trip, writing, music, or any creative response. Participants include: music by Bruce Tovsky, Suzanne Thorpe, Carrie Dashow; site specific installations by Heather Dewey Hagbourg; and water based artworks by Natalie Jerimijenko, Uke Jackson, Kevin Vertrees and moreTBA.

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ABOUT ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

ISSUE Project Room, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 2003 by visionary artist Suzanne Fiol, and is a vibrant nexus for cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary arts in Brooklyn. ISSUE supports emerging and established experimental artists through more than 200 programs each year including music concerts, literary readings, films, videos, dance, visual and sound art, new media, critical theory lectures and discussions, site-specific work, commissions, educational workshops, master classes, and genre-defying interdisciplinary performances that
challenge and expand conventional practices in art. www.issueprojectroom.org

William Lamson at The Boiler | A Line Describing the Sun

William Lamson at The Boiler
A Line Describing the Sun
10 Sept – 10 Oct, 2010

Opening Reception
10 Sept, 2010 7-9 pm

Press Release

A Line Describing the Sun features a new two-channel video and sculpture created in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. Begun at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s artist-in-residence program in Wendover, Utah, Lamson finished the project in a dry lakebed west of Barstow, California. The video and sculpture are both a record of two day-long performances in which the artist follows the sun with a large Fresnel lens mounted on a rolling apparatus. The lens focuses the sun into a 1,600-degree point of light that melts the dry mud, transforming it into a black glassy substance. Over the course of a day, as the sun moves across the sky, a hemispherical arc is imprinted into the lakebed floor.

The original performance documented in the video produced a 366-foot arc. The sculpture on view in the gallery is a 23-foot scale model of this mark, created using the same apparatus over the same amount of time, only traveling at a slower pace. Lamson excavated the mark by pouring water over it, softening the dry mud on either side of the line and eventually causing the insoluble glass to separate from its muddy surrounding. Over the course of the excavation, the single continuous line broke into hundreds of pieces. Its reconstruction in the gallery simultaneously evokes the geologic record and an archeological relic.

While Lamson’s video works have often found him playfully and strenuously interacting with his environment (both in the natural world and in his studio), this new work brings to bear the forces of nature in the act of drawing and mark-making. In this way, it continues the investigations he began with Automatic, a project in which he used wind and ocean currents to power a series of drawing machines. A Line Describing the Sun is part performance, part video work, part earthwork, and part drawing exercise.

This will be Lamson’s fourth one-person exhibition with Pierogi. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and other private collections. His work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at P.S. 1 (NYC) and Franklin Art Works (Minneapolis). He completed his MFA at Bard College and is a recent MacDowell Foundation Fellow.

This project was supported by the Center for Land Use Interpretation artists-in-residence program and a grant from the Experimental Television Center

Land Arts at Texas Tech University in the field

Land Arts solar system ready for the van install.

Land Arts at Texas Tech University has begun its 2010 field season.

Their itinerary can be found online at http://arch.ttu.edu/wiki/Land_Arts_2010_Itinerary and at http://arch.ttu.edu/wiki/Land_Arts_2010 you will find program information and our course descriptions. When possible Field Reports will be posted at http://landarts.org/index.php/site/field_reports/cat/2010_field_reports/. Check often for updates.

In addition to regular field programming a series of lectures, panels and events on the theme of Landscape as Knowledge will occur in Lubbock sponsored by the School of Art, the College of Architecture, and Land Arts of the American West. Information about Landscape as Knowledge can be found online at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/art/SOA/nav/landmark/speakerschedule/landscape.php

Land Arts 2010 will follow on the success of last year exhibiting its work at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) Warehouses on Mac Davis Lane in Lubbock, Texas in February and early March of 2011. Check our website later in the year for details about the opening and related events.

CHRIS DRURY: LAND, WATER AND LANGUAGE

PRESS RELEASE


CHRIS DRURY: LAND, WATER AND LANGUAGE
4th September - 30th October 2010
Taigh Chearsabghagh Museum and Arts Centre, North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland HS6 5AA - admission free - open 10 am - 5 pm - Monday to Saturday

This exhibition is the first in a series about land and water which will be curated and devised by Chris Drury and Andy Mackinnon at Taigh Chearsabhagh over the next 2 years. It is hoped that the ongoing project will involve, artists, writers, film makers and musicians.

The project began in September 2009 when Drury and Andy Mackinnon (TC’s curator and filmmaker) made a two day journey by Canadian canoe across the island, from the west coast back to Lochmaddy on the east coast, threading their way through the maze of lochs and waterways.

The result is this extensive show which includes the installation of a suspended woven canoe, made from heather, willow and salmon skins, works on the wall using digital technology and place names, with maps and satellite imagery; works with peat and water; a photogravure of the land traversed by canoe; and a video of a breaking wave.

Chris Drury has said about his experience of the landscape:


‘The Uists and Benbecula are part of a flow country whose interweaving of sea, lochs and land takes on a wave pattern, as when the tide retreats from a beach. The chain of islands and sea are dominated by Eaval (Island Mountain) in the North and Hekla in the South, both Norse names transfixing a fluid landscape with history and language. For the experience of this land is multi layered: the actuality of the place - the wind, the rain, the light, the sound of the curlew, the roar of the surf, the brown squelch of the peat bogs and the scent of the burning peat from the cottage chimneys - intermingles with the history interred in the place names on the map, given both in Gaelic and Norse: Encounter Loch, Secure Sheep Island, Hillock of Many Priests, Loch of the Old Woman - and something of the pain from the clearances: Isle of Lament, Coffin Loch. So language and meaning and history are embedded in this now sparsely populated place. And using satellite imagery we can look at this pattern of land and water, observe the ever changing patterns of weather fronts which mirror the land beneath. At the same time we can look at the microcosm in the small bacteria embedded in the peat bogs and know through the science that these micro-organisms are affecting the climate and the weather in which the whole is embedded.’

Anyone who finds themselves on this beautiful island over the next two months should also visit Drury’s work Hut of The Shadows, a Cloud Chamber made in 1997, which is a twenty minute walk from the Ferry terminal.

Contact:
arts@taighchearsabhagh.org . +44 (0)1876 500293 . www.taighchearsabhagh.org -
chrisdrury@chrisdrury.co.uk - +44 (0)1273 476655 - +44 (0)7584 129 217 - www.chrisdrury.co.uk

deviantART: CoolClimate Art Contest

deviantART presents The CoolClimate Art Contest Our friends at deviantART are calling on artists to participate in the CoolClimate Contest -- the first online art contest exploring climate change and how it's impacting our lives. Artists are invited to submit a work of art that explores their relationship with the climate -- from clean energy jobs to pollution-free oceans. Post entries on www.coolclimate.deviantart.com, and a panel of judges, including Ballroom Marfa favorite Mel Chin, will select the 20 finalists. Finalists will then move to the Huffington Post web site, and the public will vote on the winners. The top three will receive cash prizes and be featured on the Planet Green Planet 100 show. The deadline for submissions is September 6, 2010, so send your artwork now! Learn more, and read the official contest rules at CoolClimate. _________________________________________________________________________________________

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Stringfellow to teach “Art, Environment, and Place,” SDSU Honors Fall 2010

Art, Environment, and Place (HONORS 413 Section 02) is a San Diego State University undergraduate honors course scheduled for fall of 2010. Stringfellow’s new course focuses on the work of contemporary artists who integrate various field and research strategies borrowed from the natural sciences, geography, and other  disciplines within their practice.

The course will be centered around focused readings, discussions, presentations, screenings, and field trips. Students will conceive and execute a final project proposal that may take the form of a hybrid documentary, temporary site-specific artwork or installation, digital multimedia feature, performance, text, or other work that addresses social, cultural, environmental, geographical, and/or political issues of a local or regional ecology, site, or subject. Special emphasis will be placed on projects that are collaborative, incorporate sustainable design strategies, promote environmental awareness through education, and/or directly encourage audience participation. Projects, possibly collaborative in nature, will be distilled, executed, and documented at the conclusion of the course. A background in art is not required to take this course. Students from all academic and disciplinary areas are encouraged to apply.

The course will culminate in an imersive three-day weekend field study workshop at the Salton Sea scheduled for the weekend of November 19 – 21, 2010. During this workshop students will be able to directly experience and respond to place over an embedded field research period.  Visiting artist/architect, Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, will join the student group for this weekend field experience. Students will be prepared before embarking on the field trip through readings and presentations on diverse topics related to the site including but not limited to regional water politics, agricultural/real estate economies, local ecologies, military presence, tourism, outsider art, fringe subcultures among others. A culminating art exhibit and publication will be organized to document student interdisciplinary projects resulting from this course and workshop.

Visit the course Web site and blog at: http://kimstringfellow.wordpress.com/ for more information.

THE CENTERS OF THE USA: CLUI KS

An exhibit in Lebanon, Kansas (center of the contiguous continental United States):

THE CENTERS OF THE USA
Open indefinately starting August 14, 2010

The Centers of the USA, produced by the Institute of Marking and Measuring and the CLUI, is now open to visitors.

A CLUI Exhibit Unit, temporarily installed at the center of the contiguous continental United States, north of Lebanon, Kansas, contains an exhibit which depicts and describes several of the "Centers" of the United States, such as the geodetic center, in Lucas, Kansas; the geographic center, near Belle Fourche, South Dakota; and the current population center, in Edgar Springs, Missouri.

This project is part of the CLUI Lines of Site thematic program, an ongoing series of presentations about surveying, cartographic lines, perimeters, and borders. It was made possible with the support of the Salina Art Center, Creative Capital, the Hub Club of Lebanon, KS, and the Institute of Marking and Measuring (IMAM).

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax
clui@clui.org
www.clui.org

Debra Bloomfield's Wilderness Series

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs from Debra Bloomfield's latest project, The Wilderness Series. Over the past few years, Debra Bloomfield has focused her camera on the wilderness areas of southeast Alaska developing a series of sublime images that gently remind us of the importance of wilderness preservation in a time when our environmental impact is greater than ever. In an effort to support conservation and raise awareness, Richard Levy Gallery is donating a portion from all 2010 sales of this series to The Wilderness Society.

The Wilderness Series edition information:
13 x 19 inch (11 x 11 image) ed. of 15
20 x 24 inch (19 X 19 image) ed. of 25
38 x 39 inch (29.5 X 29.5 image) ed. of 12

Founded in 1935, The Wilderness Society a leading American conservation organization and has been involved with every major public land bill since their founding, including the National Forest Management Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Trails Act, and the National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act. The Wilderness Society strives to protect our wild places, improve land and resource management, and inspire Americans to care for their lands all over the United States. More recently, The Wilderness Society has tackled some of today's most significant issues such as climate change, global warming, the Gulf oil disaster restoration, renewable energy, and countless others. More information about the Wilderness Society can be found by following this link:

http://wilderness.org/

Please contact the gallery for pricing, further Wilderness Series edition details, and information on how your acquisition supports The Wilderness Society. Images are also available on our website at Levygallery.com.

CLUI: Through the Grapevine Bus Tour

The Center for Land Use Interpretation presents:

Through the Grapevine Bus Tour
Thursday August 12, 2010

Join us for a tour of a place meant to be passed through - a tour, essentially, of a highway. We will visit contemporary and historic lines of conveyance through the transitional geography between Central and Southern California - the epic Tejon Pass region.

The tour is part of the CLUI exhibit Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern California's Great Pass, on display until August 29, 2010.

The bus will depart from the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location at 9331 Venice Blvd, Culver City at 9 AM Thursday, August 12th, and will return by 7 PM.

Tour ticket price is $30. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, August 3rd @ 12 noon PST, and must be purchased online here.

This tour is made possible by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles and the CLUI Remarkable Roadways Program.

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax
clui@clui.org
www.clui.org

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DAVID TAYLOR: Working the Line, CLUI Independent Interpreter

Independent Interpreter presentation at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location:
DAVID TAYLOR: Working the Line
Wednesday August 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm (Please arrive early, seating is limited.)

David Taylor's project "Working the Line" documents 276 obelisks, installed between the years 1892 and 1895, that mark the U.S./Mexico boundary from El Paso/Juarez to San Diego/Tijuana. He will present this work, and describe his experiences along this often remote and dramatic linear and liminal space.

Image: Border Monument No. 184 - N 32º 09.347’ W 113º 42.403’

This talk is the third in a series of CLUI Independent Interpreter presentations which are part of an ongoing investigation of the nation's political and physical boundaries. The CLUI Independent Interpreter program is made possible by the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax
clui@clui.org
www.clui.org

Admission is free.

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