Nurturing Nature: Artists Engage the Environment
Opening February 10, 7pm at OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Nurturing Nature: Artists Engage the Environment
with artists Eva Bakkeslett,
Vaughn Bell, Susan Benarcik, Michele Brody,
Jackie
Brookner, Linda Bryne,
Xavier Cortada, Sonja Hinrichsen, Basia Irland,
William
Meyer, Maria Michai
ls,
Roy Staab, Joel Tauber.
Co-curated by Amy Lipton and Patricia Miranda
Arid Lands Lecture Series
Lecture:
The Agency of Water: Scarcity, Abundance, and Design in Dialog
Vinayak Bharne
Urbanism, Infrastructure & the Urban Water Crisis: Perspectives from Asia & the American Southwest
Dilip da Cunha
Negotiated Landscapes: Mississippi, Bangalore, and Mumbai
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
7:00 pm
Vinayak Bharne, a practicing urban designer and planner, teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His work has focused on the critical conservation and reuse of indigenous infrastructures as catalysts for sustainable urban growth and development, with ongoing projects in Iran, India and the American southwest. He is a contributing author of Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region (2005), and the forthcoming Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (mid 2011).
Dilip da Cunha, an architect and planner, serves on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, New York and the University of Pennsylvania. With Anuradha Mathur, his work has focused on cultural and ecological dimensions of contentious landscapes, wet and dry. His work includes Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore's Terrain (2006); and SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009).
Hadley Arnold, co-director of the Arid Lands Institute, will moderate a discussion on water infrastructure, design strategy, and the public realm
Update to the lineup and dates can be found here: Arid Lands Institute lecture series
Land Arts at the 2011 College Art Association Conference
Embodied Ecology with
Land Arts of the American West
Saturday, 11 February 2011, 2:30pm
College Art Association Conference Studio Art Open Session: Green and Sustainable Art
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10010
Chris Taylor will participate in the Studio Art Open Session: Green and Sustainable Art at the 2011 College Art Association Annual Conference. The session will be moderated by Anita Cooney andRebeccah Pailes-Friedman with other presentations by Cal Lane, Kelly Cobb, and Rachel Miller. Taylor will discuss how embodied ecology is cultivated by Land Arts of the American West.
Land Arts of the American West is a semester long field program investigating the intersection of geomorphology and human construction. It is a semester abroad in our own back yard where students travel 7,000 miles visiting locations across the Southwest camping for two months as they explore natural and human forces that shape contemporary landscapes—ranging from geology and weather to cigarette butts and hydroelectric dams. Land Arts situates our work within a continuous tradition of land-based operations that is thousands of years old, hinging on the primacy of first person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular.
Image: Sunny Tang at Point Sublime, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 2 September 2010.
Winter edition of the Center for Land Use Interpretation's The Lay of the Land
The Winter 2011 edition of the Center for Land Use Interpretation's The Lay of the Land newsletter is now available!
Read it online at www.clui.org, or subscribe to receive a print copy.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
launch of the Free Soil journal: Studio for Urban Projects
contact
DATE
Tuesday, February 1
TIME
7:00 pm
LOCATION
Studio for Urban Projects
3579 17th Street
San Francisco
RSVP
Space is limited. Please RSVP to
rsvp@studioforurbanprojects.org
Suggested donation $5-$15Join us for the launch of Free Soil, an annual journal with a focus
on systems related to farming; land use, environmental justice, globalization, economy, and water. Practitioners from many fields are invited to contribute–providing a diverse perspective to be cast upon the pages of each journal. The journal is an offshoot of a blog that was created in 2005 by a group of geographically dispersed artists, activists and gardeners with a common interest in the social and political organization of space–who makes the decisions about
these spaces and who is affected by those decisions.
The first issue FARMING 2050 will be the focus of the evening.
In a one-day experiment, eleven artists, farmers, writers, policy makers, architects and philosophers were invited to imagine
farming in 2050. What will it look like and how will we get there?
What materialized was a range of apprehensions, evaluations and revelatory combinations of fact and fiction that offer a diverse look
on the future of farming. This hyper-local portrait of critical, San Francisco voices reflects a sense of optimism intertwined with serious demands to re-evaluate the current logic that dominates
our food system.
Our discussion will be moderated by Free Soil editor Amy Franceschini in conversation with several of the journal’s
contributors including Brooke Budner, Ignacio Valero, Michael Swaine, Chris Carlsson, Marina McDougall and Blair Randall.
Founded in 2006 the Studio for Urban Projects is an art and design collaborative that seeks to advance civic engagement and further public dialogue. Our inter-discilinary and research-based projects aim to provoke change by re- framing our perceptions of the city and physically transforming elements of the built environ-ment. Our storefront space in the San Francisco Mission District is a public venue for the staging of workshops, talks, film screenings and meals.
3579 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 E-MAIL: info@ studioforurbanprojects.org
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY PAPERS 1/2011 – Renew, Repair, Research
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY PAPERS 1/2011 – Renew, Repair, Research
Jay Hasbrouck, ‘From refurbish to renew: the trope of healing and sustainable technology design’
Carlo Franzato, ‘Design as speculation’
Michael Biggs & Daniela Büchler, ‘ome consequences of the academicization of design practice’
Susan Yelavich (comment essay) ‘Making repairs, making (environmental) amends’
http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
Also note deadline for Abstracts for Beyond ‘Progressive’ Designing has been extended to 14 February.
Jay Hasbrouck, ‘From refurbish to renew: the trope of healing and sustainable technology design’
Carlo Franzato, ‘Design as speculation’
Michael Biggs & Daniela Büchler, ‘ome consequences of the academicization of design practice’
Susan Yelavich (comment essay) ‘Making repairs, making (environmental) amends’
http://www.desphilosophy.com/
Also note deadline for Abstracts for Beyond ‘Progressive’ Designing has been extended to 14 February.
The Harrisons and the Center for Art + Environment
Renowned ecological artists, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, have teamed with the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art to create new work for their ongoing endeavor the Force Majeure, a series of land-based artworks responding to the challenges of global change – including "Greenhouse Britain" and the Tibetan Plateau.
On February 10, during the College Art Association’s Centennial Conference in New York, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Harrisons will be announcing the launch of the 2011 Art + Environment Conference which is set to take place September 29 – October 1, 2011. Still enjoying the success of its first Conference held in 2008, the Museum will announce the line-up of 2011 Conference speakers, panelists and topics.
The Harrisons will be featured as the keynote speakers for Convocation at CAA Conference held February 9 – 12, 2011.
For more about the Harrisons exhibition at the Museum please see: http://www.nevadaart.org/
Barrier Beautification: Spring 2011 Open Call
This spring 2011, the New York City Department of Transportation is partnering again with the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit & New York Cares to paint selected barrier sites around the City. Individual artists or artist teams are invited to submit applications. DOT will help oversee artwork production, translation and design implementation. DOT and NY Cares will provide materials and tools to paint the design. Barrier sites will be primed and prepped in advance by NYC Community Cleanup. Each selected artist shall be assigned a site within one of the five boroughs and will be responsible for translating the design and overseeing the painting of the design onto the barriers. NY Cares volunteers will be assigned to assist each artist at a site on one Saturday in early spring 2011 to paint the design. To participate in this initiative, submit your application by Friday, February 25, 2011. Selected designs will be posted on the website and artists will be notified by phone within two weeks if selected. Visit www.nyc.gov/urbanart to download the application. Also, we strongly suggest that you visit www.flickr.com/photos/nycstreets/collections to view examples of completed projects to gain an understanding of the types of designs that have been approved by the Advisory Committee in the past.
Call for Submissions: Writing for Art + Environment
Call for Submissions: Writing for Art + Environment
Art + Environment seeks lively original writing that explores contemporary art, architecture, and design and its intersections with environment, nature, landscape and place in support of the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, virtual environments. These areas are broadly defined, and the breadth of potential content expansive, extending to fields including geography, ecology, environmental studies, history, media and technology, and literature, to name a few.
Art + Environment publishes blog entries, essays, and observations that blend interesting critical and research-based rigor with personal experience and journalistic edge, and reviews of books, exhibitions, programs, and projects going on in the fields inhabiting the intersections of art and environment.
Art + Environment values clear, thoughtful, and articulate prose, accessible to sophisticated lay readers, as well as professional and academic readers. Send manuscripts, proposals, or queries electronically to socialnetwork@nevadaart.org. Put “Art + Environment Submission” in the subject line. Submit texts as copy in the body of the email message and as attachments, preferably Microsoft Word. Include detailed contact information. Including a best phone number may expedite the submission and publication process. Art + Environment is interested in illustrative audio-visual material: images, video, and sound files related to the submitted text(s) are welcome with appropriate citations. Supplemental audio-visual work should be accompanied with brief explanatory texts and captions. In general, text submissions should be 300-1000 words, though longer pieces may be considered for publication.
Chris Taylor : Land Arts talk at Galleria AFA in Santiago
Chris Taylor will be giving a Land Arts talk at Galleria AFA in Santiago, Chile Saturday, December 11, 2010.
Additional information is online at http://www.galeriaafa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=60&Itemid=252 and http://landarts.org/index.php/site/events/cat/news_events/
Additional information is online at http://www.galeriaafa.com/
Out of Water: Innovative Technologies for Arid Lands
Out of Water: Innovative Technologies for Arid Lands,
a lecture + discussion by Aziza Chaouni and Liat Margolis, University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
7:00 pm, Thursday, November 11th
Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University, Burbank.
AridLandsInstitute
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91510
818. 394 3335
Land Arts of the American West 2010 Exhibition
November 19 – December 17, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 5 – 8 pm.
Location:
SCA Contemporary Art
524 Haines NW
Albuquerque, NM
Artists:
Veronica Geiger, Timothy House, Renee McKitterick, Phillip Longstaff, Nicole Deister, Marta Ferrate Torra, Bethany Delahunt, Alexia Mellor
From late August to mid-October 2010 Land Arts spent 46 days living and working throughout the southwestern US exploring the concepts of Foodshed in central and Northern New Mexico, Land Art & Land Use in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and the Border in Southern New Mexico and El Paso.
This exhibition is a culmination of both collaborative and individual studio works investigating concepts and practices embedded in the experiential complexity of place.
Land Arts of the American West, at the University of New Mexico, is an ongoing experiment in an interdisciplinary model for an Arts pedagogy based in place. The land arts program provides students with direct physical engagement within a full range of human interventions in the landscape: from pre-contact native American architecture, rock paintings and petroglyphs to contemporary Earthworks, federal infastructure, constructions of the US Military, and land use systems across the west.
Land Art includes gestures both grand and small, directing our attention from pot shard, cigarette butt, and tracks in the sand to human settlements, monumental artworks and military/industrial projects such as hydro-electric dams, copper mines and air fields.
Land Arts of the American West Program, University of New Mexico website:
http://landarts.unm.edu/
Land Arts of the American West student blog:
http://unmlandarts.blogspot.
SCA Contemporary Art is located one block south of I-40 between Fifth & Sixth. The gallery is open from 12-5pm Thursday & Friday and by appointment. For more information call 1-505-228-3749
Land Heritage Institute Symposium
2009 LHI Art-Sci Symposium from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.
The 2009 Land Heritage Institute Symposium documentary with a focus on Land Arts of the American West and presentations from Erik Knutzen of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, http://clui.org, Lucy Lipard, Ann Reynolds, Joan Jonas, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Ramon Vasquez, Alston Thoms, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, among others.
CHRIS TAYLOR: VISTING ARTIST PRESENTATION
Fusing art, architecture, and landscape in Donald Judd’s “100 untitled works in mill aluminum”, Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, via 2010 Field Reports.WHAT: CHRIS TAYLOR, Director of Land Arts of the American West at TTU Visiting Artist PresentationWHEN: Thursday, November 18th, 4 pm in ART 41
WHERE: San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Please join us for a special visiting artist presentation by Chris Taylor, Director of the Land Arts of the American West program at Texas Tech University: http://arch.ttu.edu/wiki/Land_Arts _of_the_American West and http://landarts.org. Chris will discuss the Land Arts program he heads at TTU— an immersive, interdisciplinary field study program where students spend a full semester “expanding the definition of land art through direct experience with the full range of human interventions in the landscape, from the inscriptions of pictographs and petrogylphs to the construction of roads, dwellings, and monuments, as well as traces of those actions.” Each year Land Arts travels more than 6,000 miles to live and work for over fifty days in the landscape while visiting sites such as Chaco Canyon and Roden Crater, the Grand Canyon and Double Negative, the Wendover Complex of the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Spiral Jetty, Marfa and Cabinetlandia, the Very Large Array and The Lightning Field.
Chris will be traveling with Kim Stringfellow’s Art, Environment, and Place SDSU Honors course students over the following weekend for a culminating field study trip at the Salton Sea. For more information, please visit: http://kimstringfellow.wordpress.com/ . Please encourage your undergrad and graduate students to attend this lecture. Class groups are very welcome.
TEXAS TECH: 2010 Lecture : Ann Reynolds & Eve Andree Laramee : 9 November @ 6:30PM
2010 Lecture : Ann Reynolds & Eve Andree Laramee : 9 November @ 6:30PM in English LH001
Ann Reynolds and Eve Andrée Laramée will each present their work followed by a session of dialogue and questions with the audience.
Ann Reynolds is an art historian at UT Austin. Her research focuses on art, architecture, and visual culture after 1930; feminist theory, gender, and sexuality studies; historiography of exhibition practice; and film. She is the author of the important book Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere (MIT Press 2003) and she is currently working on a new book-length project tentatively titled Playtime: Creativity, Community, and Publics in New York, 1940-1970. She is a fellow of the Clark institute and has received numerous awards for her teaching. Since 2002 she has been a field guest with Land Arts of the American West. In addition to this lecture and discussion Reynolds will interact with art history students and participants of Land Arts 2010. While the background and breadth of Reynolds’ work will be a draw for attendees, material from her new research on creativity and the ongoing legacy of earth works will provide a context for dialogue and help us decipher Landscape as Knowledge.
Eve Andrée Laramée is an artist and Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work examines the relationship between art, science, and nature. She has exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale, Mass MOCA, MCA Chicago, New Museum NYC. Her work is included in the collections of the MacArthur Foundation, MOMA NY, MCA Chicago, The Fogg, UCLA Hammer. Recent and ongoing works include projects about desertification and soil degradation; transformation of the Salton Sea/Mojave Desert during the Cold War, and a project on water resources in Northern New Mexico contaminated by radioactive isotopes. Laramée's work will operate as an index to Landscape as Knowledge. It is be a model for and relevant to a wide audience including studio art, art history, architecture and people operating at the intersection between culture and nature. Laramée met the Land Arts 2010 crew in the field to visit the Jackpile Mine, a reclaimed uranium mine on Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, her presentation and interaction on campus will bring part of the Land Arts experience back to Lubbock.
Landscape as Knowledge is a multidisciplinary exploration of how we see, conceive, and depict the earth; and what we find or do on it. Artists, art historians, and scholars from various disciplines will question how both our landscape and we ourselves are continually shaped and reshaped by an array of natural and cultural processes. Rick Dingus, professor in photography, Dr. Jorgelina Orfila, assistant professor in art history, Dr. Carolyn Tate, professor in art history, and Chris Taylor, assistant professor in architecture are the core collaborating faculty who organized the year of events.
This event is sponsored by the School of Art as part of the joint series Landscape as Knowledge. Organized by the faculty of theSchool of Art in collaboration with faculty from the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University, and receiving major support from the Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts and the College of Architecture, Landscape as Knowledge will present a year-long series of public lectures, conversations and events to examine embodied intelligence within the augmented environment.
Additional support for Landscape as Knowledge comes from Land Arts of the American West, the College of Architecture, andLandmark Arts in the School of Art, which receives generous support from the Helen Jones Foundation, The CH Foundation, and Cultural Activities Fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.
This event is also part of the College of Architecture 2010-2011 Lecture Series, Material Ecologies.
UPDATE FROM L.A. URBAN RANGERS
Autumn greetings from the Los Angeles Urban Rangers! This year, we’ve been busy at work in the field while also expanding our geographical range, with Rangers now posted in Silicon Valley and Zürich, Switzerland. We are excited to announce a series of new works in-the-making, with several events planned to take place in our favorite megalopolis in the coming year.
On a cold and windy May day, we wrapped up our long-running Malibu Public Beaches project with an all-day safari bonanza which brought out a swarm of intrepid Angelenos. Since then, we’ve re-focused our sights on downtown LA for the next phase of our Public Access 101 series. We are thrilled be forging ahead with a series of hikes and other downtown adventures by way of temporary posts at two local strongholds: the 2010 California Biennial at Orange County Museum of Art (opening Oct. 24) and Engagement Party at MOCA (Summer 2011). Stay tuned for these Ranger-led programs in the near future!
This Fall, we were able to resume our field research and cultural exchange in Almere, the Netherlands, where we had built SITE2F7 Ontdekkingstocht (Explorer's Hike), including a trail system surrounding the Museum de Paviljoens, in 2008. We are now developing a field guide to this lively vacant lot, enriched by our interactions with a host of local species. Join us on Nov. 13 at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) along with the Otis MFA Public Practice Program, when we’ll share this work as part of PUBLIC INTEREST: Projects & Prototypes, a day-long event that takes an LA-centric look at the burgeoning field of arts-based public practices.
We’re also expanding our explorations into the less urban wilds of California. In collaboration with the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, we are currently investigating the university’s little-known UC Natural Reserve System, an archipelago of field research sites spanning the state. In the coming year, we plan to craft a series of tools and programs to widen the use of these spaces, especially by non-scientists.
Last but not least, if you haven’t already, please check out our new website (AKA virtual ranger station), designed by the digitally ambidextrous Roman Jaster.
We’re enormously grateful to the California Coastal Conservancy, California Community Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and UCIRA for making our investigations over the last year possible.
We promise to be in touch again soon with details about upcoming activities. In the meantime, know that we appreciate and rely upon support from active and engaged citizens like you!
In your service,
The Los Angeles Urban Rangers
www.laurbanrangers.org
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 28th 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 4th 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
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