09 April 2009
Land Arts lecture at Yale
Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: exploring Land Arts of the American West
Monday, 13 April 2009, 10:30am-12:30pm
Yale School of Art
Sculpture Building, 36 Egdewood Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
In this lecture Chris Taylor will present Land Arts of the American West as a work that makes other works through a field program that investigates the intersection of geomorphology and human construction beginning with the land and extending through the complex social and ecological processes that produce contemporary landscapes. Taylor will discuss the underlying strategies organizing the program, the embodied knowledge it produces, and its extension into the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Chris Taylor is an architect, the director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, a program he has developed with Bill Gilbert of the University of New Mexico since 2002. Together they are authors of the Land Arts of the American West book, which documents the history and development of the program and has just been published by the University of Texas Press.
The Incubo Atacama Lab project began when the curatorial exchange organization Incubo invited Chris Taylor to bring the working methods of Land Arts to Chile. The lab brought together a group of students and researchers from North and South America for a conference in Santiago and fieldwork in the Atacama Desert to examine earthworks and terraforming in the Atacama Desert and to create contemporary responses to the industrial use of land over time. A book documenting the project is available online at Amazon.com.
Image: Land Arts of the American West (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009).
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