ERRATIC SPACES/THE LAND: An installation by Don Gill

THE LAND/an art site, Inc. presents

An installation by Don Gill
ERRATIC SPACES/THE LAND

June 5-26, 2010
Opening reception and artist’s talk June 5, 5-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday and Saturday 11am-5pm and by appointment

THE LAND/gallery
419 Granite Ave. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 242-1501
Email: theland@comcast.net
Website: www.landartsite.org

ERRATIC SPACE: Treating space as unmapped/unknown terrain that becomes known by wandering and examination. This wandering, in association with photography, video, GPS technology, and other forms of data collection, develops a map of both the physical terrain and the artist's experience of it. Erratic Spaces/THE LAND is a gallery installation based on the artist's February 2010 residency at THE LAND/an art site.

Multi-media artist DON GILL teaches at Lethbridge University, Alberta. In addition to New Mexico, recent art projects have taken him to D'Arcy Island, British Columbia and New South Wales, Australia.

THE LAND/an art site, Inc., a nonprofit organization, provides environmental artists with opportunities to work and exhibit in New Mexico, and works to promote awareness of environmental issues through the arts. THE LAND maintains offices, a resource center and a gallery space, THE LAND/gallery, in downtown Albuquerque, and a forty-acre outdoor site in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains devoted exclusively to site-specific, environmentally low-impact, land-based art.

CONTACT: THE LAND/an art site at (505) 242-1501

New at the Center for Art + Environment

Bill Gilbert: Physiocartographies Now Open Through September 26 Bill Gilbert's exhibition of walking maps, Physiocartographies, traces his attempts to hike predetermined routes through varied terrain, inevitably frustrated by weather, topography, and the limits of his own body. Handwriting and audio recordings overlay enlarged topographical maps, living proof that "the map is not the territory." more >

Museum Receives Selection of Lita Albuquerque Archives The newest collection to join the CA+E Archive will be materials from Lita Albuquerque's Stellar Axis. Stay tuned for the Museum’s public exhibition of this important work, the first large-scale installation made in the Antarctic. more >

Blogging from Australia Watch for forthcoming blogs by CA+E Director Bill Fox, who this month and next will again be traveling through New Zealand and Australia meeting artists, collecting archive materials, and visiting remote Aboriginal art centers in the deserts of Western Australia.more >

Chinese Economics and Yang Yongliang Don’t miss Views From China: Yang Yongliang and the Modern Metropolis, the first-ever American museum exhibition of Yang Yongliang’s haunting images of Chinese landscapes, recalling traditional Chinese paintings in the form of contemporary digital imagery. Join Elliott Parker for a discussion of Chinese economics and Yongliang’s work June 4. more >

“Placing Space | Spacing Place” New Videos on the Art + Environment Social Network Six new videos of the “Placing Space | Spacing Place” panel at the Art + Environment Conference are now available on the Art + Environment Social Network. This session brought together individuals who have worked to develop interdisciplinary networks of artists, designers, and scholars to explore the nature of place and placelessness. Videos feature William L. Fox, Bill Gilbert, Matthew Coolidge, Cheryl Haines, and Geoff Manaugh. more >

Land Art Generator Initiative DEADLINE June 4th

	The 2010 International Sculpture Conference in London Earlier this month we had the honor of presenting at the 22nd annual International Sculpture Conference. LAGI was included in the panel "A Changing Landscape: Sculpture, Society & Environment" chaired by John Grande and also featuring John Roloffand Ian Hunter. There was a lot of interest in the creative fusion of renewable energy infrastructure and public art and also the specific context of public art potential in the United Arab Emirates. The panel resulted in a very stimulating discussion and audience questions, and while there was some distance conceptually between the work of the panelists, there was a great thread that tied it all together: the necessity for new sculptural conceptions of landscape, be they agricultural, geological, ecological, or energy infrastructural. The continued relevance of sculptural intervention requires a constant reassessment in the context of contemporary cultural issues. Thoughtful sculptural interventions in the landscape can impart a new framework of understanding about fundamental cultural currencies such as water, food, energy, and ecology. We thank the ISC for inviting us to be a part of this international event.
	BarCamp UAE The next edition of DoCamp will be held on 8th May 2010 at Dubai Internet City. (Block 1, DKV Conference Halls) We will be holding a session titled, The Aesthetics of Renewable Energy: The Land Art Generator Initiative in Room A at 4:15PM. See BarCampUAE for more information on the sessions and for a location map to the event. BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants. ECO Friendly EXPO We will be lecturing during the The Power of Green Lecture Series at the Eco Friendly Expo in New York City on May 27. "The Eco Friendly Expo is a three-day event in the heart of New York City. Featuring Eco innovation and sustainable Design from all over the world! This trade show is a high-end marketplace that serves as a showcase for environmentally friendly companies, services and destinations, attracting both public and private sector buyers in the Tri-state area. Eco Friendly Expo is bringing Green to a Grand New Level! The Show also features The Power of Green Lecture Series, including seminars with experts in different fields, book signings, and demonstrations. Participants include members of the Bloomberg Administration, School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, Barnes and Noble and the Food Network, among others. We hope to see you at these upcoming events. Please go to www.landartgenerator.org for more information about these and other LAGI happenings. And to see recent press coverage, click here.
	A special thanks to the Friends of LAGI and in-kind supporters who have contributed their support to help make the competition possible: thejamjar Tasmena Energy World Magazine Reuben Andrews Jane Meikle Jude van der Merwe Ramzi Jaber Rhonda Hauff John and Jennifer Ferry We continue to seek support from individuals and institutions. Please visit ourSPONSORSHIP page for details.

José León Cerrillo closing

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Please join us for a reception at the Schindler House to celebrate the conclusion of José León Cerrillo's project with a limited edition, co-publication between Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and LA art press Paper Chase Press.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Please RSVP to rsvp@nomadicdivision.org

This event is FREE, with a suggested donation of Schindler House admission ($7 general, $6 students)

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(323) 651-1510
www.MAKCenter.org

About the event
From January 30 - March 26, 2010, Mexico City-based artist José León Cerrillo took up residence at R.M. Schindler's Fitzpatrick-Leland House, reanimating the space through constant artistic production and punctuated events. On site, Cerrillo produced a series of posters riffing on the graphic programs of a variety of sources - from the familiar Art and Architecture portfolio of "lifestyle" modernism, to Schindler's and other LA-based architects' body of work, to the present-day modernist architectural imagery as translated in popular print media and advertising.

This work has been collected in a limited edition portfolio and publication to be on first view during this evening. Please contact info@nomadicdivision.orgfor more information or to purchase the edition.

About LAND
LAND is a non-profit public art initiative committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects, in Los Angeles and beyond. VIA is a series of temporary public projects by contemporary artists from Mexico that is taking place throughout the year at multiple venues around Los Angeles.

This project made possible by Grants for New Projects (GNP). GNP is a non-profit, charitable entity that provides funding for curators and emerging artists to produce contemporary art projects.

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The Last-Hurrah Malibu Public Beaches Safaris

The LOS ANGELES URBAN RANGERS ANNOUNCE:

The Last-Hurrah Malibu Public Beaches Safaris

Sun. May 23 -- 9am, 11:30pm, and 2pm

We're wrapping up our 3-year Malibu project, and to celebrate our public beaches one last time, we're offering 3 (yes, three!) free mini-safaris. No sign-up required. All welcome!

What: Are you tired of Zuma and Surfrider? Want to find and use the the 20 miles of public beaches that are lined with private development? Our safaris will equip you with the advanced skills necessary to find and use the Malibu public beaches legally and safely. Activities include signwatching, trailblazing the public-private boundary, and a public easement potluck.

When: Choose 1 of the 3 start times (each lasts ~1 3/4 hrs). Please do not plan to join mid-safari.

Where: Come to the public beach accessway between 22140-22126 Pacific Coast Highway (~.5 mis west of Carbon Canyon Rd. and ~1 mi. east of Malibu pier). Park on either side of the PCH (cross with caution), and walk through the accessway to the beach. (Or take the 534 PCH bus!--nearest stop is Carbon Canyon Rd.-- www.metro.net.) Please allow for plenty of time to find a parking spot, since availability of beach parking is unpredictable.

Tip: Want the easiest parking?--Try the 9am safari.

Rangers should arrive at the base of the accessway (on the beach--look for the uniform) to assemble each safari at least 15 minutes in advance of each start time. If you arrive early, you can walk on the wet sand anywhere, and on the dry sand (at least 10 ft. from the houses) on the FIRST 4 PROPERTIES TO THE LEFT (downcoast). Please do not use the dry sand upcoast or elsewhere.

Bring: Snack for the potluck (just for you), water if you need it, sun protection, and extra layer for warmth.

Please note: No bathroom available at meeting point--Try the fast-food restaurants just upcoast on the PCH.

Dogs, sadly, are not allowed on the beaches.

Hope to see you at the beach!

Check out our new website!
www.laurbanrangers.org

A downloadable "Malibu Public Beaches" guide is available on our website.

CLUI exhibition: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE: Streams of Transit in Southern California's Great Pass

New exhibit at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location:

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE: Streams of Transit in Southern California's Great Pass
Exhibit open from April 23, 2010

The mountainous passage that separates the great population of Southern California from the rest of the state is a zone of transit, from one epic region to another. Located at the collision of the San Gabriel and Tehachapi Mountain Ranges, this steep and convoluted terrain lies between the northern edge of the Los Angeles megalopolis and the depopulated place known as Grapevine, at the southern end of the Central Valley. Layers of traffic, water, and energy move like a braided stream through the mountainous terrain, connecting here to there.

This exhibit 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

Exhibit is open 12 - 5 PM, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, or by appointment.
Admission is free.

Directions

A High Desert Test Sites Lecture & Workshop Series: The New Everyday Life

A High Desert Test Sites Lecture & Workshop Series

HDTS Headquarters

6470 Veterans Way

Joshua Tree, CA 92252

http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/

ANNOUNCEMENT

Join us for our premier pilot weekend of The New Everyday Life, a lecture and workshop series that will commence Saturday May 1st-Sunday May 2nd 2010.

In keeping with the HDTS mission to create truly alternative spaces for art that challenges traditional conventions of ownership, presentation and patronage, The New Everyday Life will bring together guest artists and participants whose talent and knowledge varies widely but who all share a desire to approach daily life with a blend of both experimental and practical thinking. For our weekend-long symposium that includes four workshops and an open-air dinner, we will enroll twelve students in an immersive suite of 2 hour classes held in special locations in and around the Morongo Basin.

The New Everyday Live is an endeavor designed to both stimulate conversation and catalyze action by considering overlap between contemporary art and craft, sustainable living, survival skills, ecology and earth science, and cultural variation. Each participant in The New Everyday Life will leave with a new set of skills and inspirations, after intimately experiencing the Mojave desert’s unique context for life and living.

ITINERARY

Saturday May 1st

12:00. Meet for introduction and driving maps at the HDTS Headquarters in sunny downtown Joshua Tree.

12:30 – 2:30 Visit Wells Pollock in his school bus leather working studio encampment on the edge of the marine base and learn how to do bootleg leatherworking using readily available household tools and implements.

3:30 – 5:30 Hang out with Trinie Dalton at A-Z West Cabin and practice bookmaking stitches to make a book about your experience of the desert. (Note: Dalton will contact participants in advance about prep, supplies, and other details to maximize stitch-learning time. Beginners to advanced bookmakers welcome.)

6:30 – 9:30 Travel to section six with Chantale Doyle to learn more about how she lived for one year in her vegi-oil powered VW Vanagon while supporting herself by selling on ebay.

Dinner. Chantale will fix everyone an exotic fish taco dinner on her van's cookstove.

Sunday May 2nd

12:00 – 2:00: Meet on the patio of A-Z West for a beer-making workshop with Katie Grinnan and a goodbye toast with her special honey basil, peach, and ginger brews.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Chantale Doyle is an artist who lives in the Mojave desert near Joshua Tree. In 2007 Doyle spent a year living and traveling in a Volkswagen van powered by waste vegetable oil, which she learned to collect from dumpsters and filter to use as fuel for her vehicle. While traveling through twenty-four states and three provinces, Doyle created an exhibition of drawings that was shown in Japan, Canada and California in 2009. Doyle is now at work on a book about her experiences and continuing her efforts to live in a manner that nurtures creative independence. She owns Mt. Fuji General Store, next door to the HDTS headquarters.

For more info: http://web.mac.com/chandoyle/Site/Events/Entries/2009/10/18_Chantale_Doyle.html

http://www.chantaledoyle.com/

Wells Pollock was born on a Minnesota commune. Before moving to Joshua Tree to start a goat farm, he lived in New York City, the Mississippi River Valley, Spain, Holland and San Francisco, organizing experimental film screenings and music events. As a performance artist he once threw a year-long conceptual art and psychic orgy in Iowa City. He’s done everything from renovating a 16th century goat shack in southern Spain to cooking on a squatted boat in Amsterdam. He learned leatherworking at an S&M factory in San Francisco. Of this he says, “Leatherworking is one of humankind's most basic crafts. Unfortunately, most of it now doesn't match up with anybody's visions. My goal is to help people realize their dreams of belts, collars, wristbands and so much more. I like making things that are beautiful, functional and that my friends can still afford! Most of the leather I use is salvaged and I am working on designing my own hardware.” Pollock lives in a renovated school bus on the Copper Mountain Mesa.

Trinie Dalton has authored, curated, and/or co-edited five books: Wide Eyed (Akashic), A Unicorn Is Born (Abrams), Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney's), Mythtym (Picturebox) and Sweet Tomb (Madras Press). Her books vary between pure text and experiments with art + image. She teaches bookarts at NYU and Pratt, and exhibits or builds lectures around her handmade books’ subject matter. Her most recent event/exhibitions were at Deitch Projects in New York for Gelatin’s PIG Sunday School series, and at Las Cienegas Projects in Los Angeles. Her next book will be published by Ecstatic Peace Library.

For more info: http://sweettomb.com/

Katie Grinnan is an internationally exhibiting artist from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on using imagery and physicality to exploit the alchemical nature of perception and space. Her interest in making beer began by happenstance, stopping into a beer making shop and realizing that beer is a sort of homespun alchemical process. It's everyday magic. Her beer is called Wizard Brew.

LOGISITICS

Cost:

The cost is $120 per person for the weekend that includes Chantale's fish taco dinner. All proceeds are used to cover basic event expenses and to pay the speakers.

Enrollment:

Due to the intimate nature of this event the group will be limited to twelve people. No application is needed, but spaces will be filled on a first come first serve basis. If you would like to enroll please email info.hdts@gmail.com – you will be emailed instructions so that you can pay via Paypal, the first 12 people who pay will be signed up for the course.

Lodging:

A limited amount of campsites are available on Zittel’s property, and can be pre-arranged with the host on a first come, first serve basis. Alternately, camping in Joshua Tree National Park or staying in a local hotel are excellent options. For lodging recommendations please visit the HDTS website’s Directions page.

For future updates and event listings for future incarnations of The New Everyday Life email us at info.hdts@gmail.com

EXPERIENTIAL GEOGRAPHY 101

New Works: Experiential Geography 101

EXPERIENTIAL GEOGRAPHY 101 is a journey deep inside KARL CRONIN's idiosyncratic research, presented with footnotes and nerdy flare. A mash-up of performance, natural history lecture, and cognitive science experiment, this is dance masquerading as a graduate seminar. Through movement, spoken word, and film, the beauty of our natural world is revealed one layer at a time.

http://experientialgeography.com/

KARL CRONIN is a NYC-based movement artist who is creating and performing a Somatic Natural History Archive of the USA. Each day he spends time with a different plant or animal species, and then brings his experiences back to the studio where he creates a movement sketch. New archive entries are presented in a weekly, free performance offering. This work is a direct result of creative research support provided by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance (iLAND- NYC), Movement Research (NYC), and the Santa Fe Art Institute (NM).

MEREDITH JAMES AT Marc Jancou Contemporary

MEREDITH JAMES ESPALIER APRIL 17-MAY 22, 2010 OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, APRIL 17TH, 6-8 PM

See-Through, detail

Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to announce Meredith James' first solo show in New York, Espalier. Meredith James' videos and sculptures engage architectural space and sequential narrative through a series of inversions and perceptual events. Shot in an abandoned subway station, Six uses simple in-camera techniques to recast the spatial and temporal coordinates of the experience of a passing train. Not unlike early experiments in film, James' work tends to lay bare its mechanism, preferring to acknowledge the perceptual shifts even as they occur. Carefully structured time lags are distributed between moments of recognition within the narrative structure of a video or the spatial arrangement of sculptural elements. James' use of unconventional viewing apparatuses compounds the experience; videos are rear-projected inside homemade TVs and sculptures sit behind walls. See-Through is a tubular knot constructed of found windows, which are fit together, and then built into a temporary wall. As in her videos, James reveals the structure of the piece by creating alternate vantage points and entries into the work. The diorama titled "A stand of roadside cholla against which small birds had been driven by the storm and there impaled" may be seen either through a tiny peephole or through the prism of windows in See-Through. Born in 1982, James lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Yale University, and her BA from Harvard University. Recent group exhibitions include Symbol Rush, Newman Popiashvili, New York; Experiment, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Kings County Biennial (curated by Kidd Yellin and James Fuentes), Kid Yellin, New York; People Weekly (curated by Linda Norden), The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York; Careerists and Visionaries (curated by Jacques Louis Vidal), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York; and Labyrinthitis, Rivington Arms, New York. For more information please contact Kelly Woods at kelly@marcjancou.com. Marc Jancou Contemporary NEW ADDRESS 524 WEST 24TH STREET New York, New York 10011 T 212 473 2100 F 212 473 2222 WWW.MARCJANCOU.COM info@marcjancou.com

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT
Venice, Italy
17-19 November 2010
http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/conference-2010/

This year's conference will be held in Venice, Italy alongside the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The Constructed Environment Conference is a place to explore the forms and functions of the constructed environment during a time of dramatic and at times disruptive change. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the past character and future shape of the built environment. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: architecture, anthropology, business, design, economics, education, engineering, environmental design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, sociology, town and regional planning, and transportation.

As well as an international line-up of plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed International Journal of the Constructed Environment. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the journal. We also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the online sessions link on the conference website for further details.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 May 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found on the conference website at http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/conference-2010/ .

Contact:
Prof. Jeffery S. Poss
School of Architecture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on the Constructed Environment and The International Journal of the Constructed Environment

RESIDENCY APPLICATION: PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation

Be a Resident at PLAND!

Residency Overview and Application Form

APPLICATIONS DUE: MAY 10 at pland.info@gmail.com

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PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa. PLAND finds its inspiration in a legacy of pioneers, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, artists, and other counterculturalists who – through both radical and mundane activities – reclaim and reframe a land-based notion of the American Dream. While producing open-ended experimental projects that facilitate collaboration and hyper-local engagement, PLAND is a constantly evolving, art-informed rural outpost in the New Mexican high desert. Through project-based residencies and work parties, residents are encouraged to marry survival-based goals with big ideas and experimental methods. Without expectations about prescribed outcomes, PLAND privileges process over product. We believe that people that can do amazing things when supported and encouraged in new contexts and there is no context like that of the Taos mesa. Part alternative school, part laboratory, part homestead, part art studio, PLAND is an active solution for merging art into life.

Download the RESIDENCY APPLICATION FORM:
Word or pdf

Who may apply:
If you are a worker, maker, thinker, or doer who brings self-awareness, experimental processes and creativity to what you do – and PLAND sparks some ideas for you – then you are eligible to apply for a residency.

What it means:
PLAND is a burgeoning program – an idea associated with a specific location and new forms of production. We believe that a place is made by living in it and we want you to help us make PLAND by being here, by living it. Through an active reinvestment in daily life and by collaborating with amazing people, we aim to not only cultivate PLAND but also to test new ways of being in the world. That said, we invite you to propose a project that will involve some level of collaboration with us and with the place. While we don’t expect you to be familiar with the Taos mesa in detail before you arrive, the most successful project will be site-responsive in that it considers localized geography, history, culture, language, architectural traditions or otherwise. We are interested in proposals that might problem-solve our water situation or result in a garden, but we’re equally as interested in pairing you with our neighbor Bob (who has woven homes out of willows) or facilitating a collaboration with the local community center. For us, building community is as important as building shelter.

Prior to your arrival, we’ll have on-going conversations about your residency at PLAND. We’ll let you know when we score some second-hand windows, how we managed to buy the chain saw, who we met that reminded us of you… you’ll basically become part of it all so that when you arrive you’re ready, you’re here, you’re home.

What to expect:
PLAND has only just begun! In 2009 we purchased 1.25 acres of high desert at a land auction. The land is raw – no electricity or water and the road is rough but short. Situated approximately 40 miles northwest of Taos, PLAND is a rural outpost on the edge of the ever-nearing grid. As we draft this call for proposals, the land sits under a new covering of snow and until the ground thaws and we’ve relocated our lives to the mesa, the building has yet to begin. Never fear! By the time you arrive, we’ll have an outhouse, a way to cook and clean, and some form of shelter in which to sleep. Be aware that this is not the residency during which you will make paintings or write novels. We do not have studio spaces nor is this residency about working in isolation. Although humble, rugged, and not without its plentiful share of hardship, we offer you the opportunity to get in touch with the basics. Water, shelter, fire, weather, dinner, blue, people, time and space – all of these elements become the daily luxuries in which you’re invited to indulge.

We provide:
- a compelling context
- localized access to neighbors, materials, possibilities
- loads of local secrets like where to get a shower, where to find wild asparagus, how to battle the heat
- opportunities to collaborate with locals and with us
- outings into town for laundry, cuisine, nightlife, internet, etc.
- outings into the wilds for foraging, hot springs, recreation, etc.
- (wo)man power! We will help produce and build your project. Yes, that means we’re working side-by-side, day-by-day
- a growing library of manuals, almanacs, maps, novels and children’s books
- the tools we have on hand
- the materials we’re able to gather
- shelter
- water
- first-aid kit
- collaboratively cooked dinners
- conversation
- presentation of your work on our website
- a trickle of fascinated and fascinating visitors, all willing to help out
- transportation to Texas for a report to our funders, the Idea Fund
- contextualization and amplification of your project to a broad audience
- modest stipend for materials, travel, tequila, whatever

You provide:
- transportation to Taos
- food
- basic survival stuff (canteen, flashlight, work shoes, etc.)
- ideas and inspiration
- a good attitude
- flexibility regarding your proposal – everything might change once you arrive!
- a continuous 2-4 week commitment to being at PLAND
- means of documenting your work
- a waiver stating that you come to PLAND at your own risk

Application process:
First let us state that although we can only choose one resident, we hope to receive a lot of proposals so as to assess the broad appeal of PLAND. Based on your proposals, we’ll know who is interested in this place and why and, henceforth, how to plan our future around a set of collective interests.

By May 10:
1) Email completed application form, with additional pages and supporting materials as necessary, to pland.info@gmail.com

2) Send $15 application fee/gesture of support:

via PayPal:
click on the “Donate” button at the top right-hand side of this webpage

OR

via postal mail: please note that this is a P.O. Box, so please do not send large packages
Nina Elder/PLAND
423 State Road 150
El Prado, NM
87529

By May 31:
We will contact you to let you know if you should start packing.

Why an application fee?
Part of the experiment of PLAND is about resource sharing. While we could make excuses about administration costs, we prefer to think of the application fee as a statement of support. Your fees will go directly into building PLAND, both physically and conceptually and will signal that you believe in what we’re doing. We’ll put your money towards something we really need – like firewood or a cistern or a generator or a chain saw – and we’ll list you as a supporter on our website.

Another part of the PLAND agenda is to forge alternative and hybrid economies, so know that we’re open to some non-monetary methods of support. If you prefer an alternative, simply choose something that you think we’ll need, or check our website Wish List, and send it to our physical mailing address. Be sure to specify your method of contribution in the email application form.

Got questions? We’re sure you do! Just ask ‘em at pland.info@gmail.com

Writing Marathon at the University of New Mexico Art Museum

Man Ray, Noire et blanche, 1926 ©2010 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris But what exactly is a Writing Marathon? A Writing Marathon is a long period of time of sustained writing in an environment that is a resource of ideas and a source of inspiration. Place matters and writing marathons respect this. Writing Marathons offer the opportunity to take risks and share them with others, to be in new spaces and witness the influence it has on your work, and to listen to other's pieces. There are no rules, no pressure, and lots of encouragement from like-minded souls.

Writing Marathon at the Museum Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens Sponsored by the High Desert Writing Project, in partnership with the UNM Art Museum This writing marathon will involve viewing the exhibit, brief discussions about the art, and opportunities to write and share. Participants need not be accomplished writers, but are expected to have an interest in writing. Who: Writers 15 - 99+ years of age Where: University of New Mexico Art Museum (in the Center for the Arts) When: April 10, 2010 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM Bring: Something to write on and pencils (NOTE: NO PENS are permitted in the Art Museum) Cost: $10 Registration: To register for this event, please email Chuck Jurich at jurich@unm.edu The Art Museum is handicapped accessible - please make prior arrangements with Sara Otto-Diniz at sodiniz@unm.edu. For more information on the Man Ray exhibition please visit http://unm.edu/~artmuse For more information on High Desert Writing Project please visit http://hdwp.org

SPRING ISSUE OF LAY OF THE LAND

The Spring 2010 edition of the Center for Land Use Interpretation's The Lay of the Land newsletter is now available on the Center's newly redesigned website!

Click here to receive a print copy of the Lay of the Land newsletter.

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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

DONALD JUDD CONFERENCE

Save the Date

“Donald Judd: Delegated Fabrication”
Conference and Exhibition, Portland, Ore.

Sunday, April 25, 2010
University of Oregon in Portland
White Stag Block

From the outside a Donald Judd piece is seamless, hiding all traces of it’s construction. But behind the final piece is a rich history of the artist’s intent and his method for fabrication. Join us for a groundbreaking discussion of Judd’s art, lead by contemporary art scholars and Judd’s longtime fabricator. The day-long conference in Portland, Ore, will look at Judd as an icon of the American minimalist movement, as well as issues of authenticity and fabrication that continue to have lasting implications for artists today. In addition, the conference will explore the artist’s connection to Pacific Northwest, where he created a site-specific piece in 1974 for the Portland Center for Visual Arts (PCVA).

A related exhibition will be presented in the University of Oregon’s White Box visual laboratory.

Conference Speakers:
Robert Storr -- Dean of the Yale School of Art and past curator at the Museum of Modern Art, art critic and painter
Peter Ballentine —Judd’s longtime fabricator, curator and artist
Bruce Guenther — Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Portland Art Museum

Conference organized by Peter Ballantine and Arcy Douglass

Registration (includes boxed lunch):
$65 early registration by March 22; $85 after
$35 for students

To register, visit www.juddconference.com

Conference blog at www.juddconference.posterous.com

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE: CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI FINLAND

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE
Practices in transformation

A conference by the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki Finland, in
collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelache festival.

Time: 24-25.3.2010 10-17h
Location: Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Kaikukatu 4.
Accessible for everyone and free entry

Detailed schedule and more information:
www.kuva.fi www.kilpiscope.net www.pixelache.fi

Keynotes by Roy Ascott and Jill Scott

The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming
awareness of environmental issues. Facing the threat of global
warming, the findings of scientific research have become a subject of
intensive political debate. The ethical questions traditionally
discussed in the green-wing marginals have become mainstream, as
science has become a coffee-table topic.

The field of art that interacts with the practices of science and its
technologies is commonly referred to as ART&SCIENCE. During the past
decades, this hybrid field has become more or less established, with
landmark works, major institutions and written histories. However,
with the new wave of environmentalism, a further wave of artists
working with methods and questions related to scientific research has
also emerged.

The conference seeks to contextualize the practices of ART&SCIENCE
both in the contemporary political atmosphere and the history of
contemporary art.

The first day of the two-day conference focuses on the practices in
transformation as a result of research-orientation and
cross-disciplinarity, characteristic to the field of ART&SCIENCE.

The second day of the conference looks at the technologies of
encounter between human and non-human worlds. The aim is to address
the ethical discourse taking place in art practices which look at the
interaction between humans and non-humans.

Speakers include:
Pau Alsina (researcher, ESP)
Roy Ascott (artist, theorist, UK)
Laura Beloff (artist, researcher, FI)
Erich Berger (artist, coordinator ArsBioarctica, AUT/FI)
Andy Gracie (artist, UK/ESP)
Terike Haapoja (artist, FI)
Eija Juurola (forest researcher, FI)
Jan Kaila (artist, professor, FI)
Tuija Kokkonen (theatre director, FI)
Minna Långström (artist, lecturer, FI
Anu Osva (artist, FI)
Ingeborg Reichle (art historian, DE)
Antti Sajantila (professor, medical doctor, FI)
Jill Scott (artist, researcher, AUS/CH)
Helena Sederholm (professor, FI)
Raitis Smits (artist, curator, LV)
Ulla Taipale (curator, FI/ESP)
Manu Tamminen (microbiologist, FI)
Adam Zaretsky (artist, US)

Contact
Erich Berger
Coordinator ArsBioarctica
eb@randomseed.org
http://kilpiscope.net

Terike Haapoja
Artist, Phd researcher
mail@terikehaapoja.net
http://kuva.fi

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