26 February 2009
Glass House Conversation
Procession and Seduction
Glass House Conversation
Moderated by Fritz Haeg
February 26-27, 2009
Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
Philip Johnson often used the word “procession” to describe how, through design, the experience of architecture and landscape can be choreographed. Within the seductive context of the Glass House, participants, including artists, dancers, architects, landscape architects, planners and educators will explore possibilities for interpreting, navigating, and enhancing the experience of today’s communities, architecture and landscape through choreography.
Participants included: Anita Berrizbeitia, Associate Chair, Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture Univ. of PA; Dorothy Dunn, Director Visitor Experience, Philip Johnson Glass House; Roselee Goldberg, Founding Director, Curator, Performa07; Fritz Haeg, moderator, Artist, author Edible Estate; Attack on the Front Lawn; Christy MacLear, Executive Director, Philip Johnson Glass House; Juliette Mapp, Dancer, Choreographer; Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Producer, filmmaker, author; Alice Rawsthorn, Writer, art historian, International Harold Tribune; Kevin Slavin, Managing Director, Area/Code; Chris Taylor, Director Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University; Nils Norén, Vice President, French Culinary Institute.
22 January 2009
Field Reports Lecture by Chris Taylor
Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: Exploring Land Arts of the American West
A Lecture by Chris Taylor
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 6pm
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Chris Taylor is an architect and 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. Recently he organized Performing Land Arts: the Philadelphia Experiment with Kate Wingert-Playdon, a weeklong workshop for Tyler School of Art. In 2007 Taylor led Atacama Lab: 07, a conference and field workshop extending the interpretive frame and working methods of Land Arts to Chile to examine terraforming in the Atacama Desert. Taylor also explores the interstitial forces creating landscape through his practice, the Architecture Workers Combine, which has built work in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. He is currently teaches in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University.
This event is cosponsored by Temple University’s Department of Architecture and held in conjunction with Field Reports: documents and strategies of Land Arts of the American West.
20 January 2009
New Center for Art + Environment Acquires Land Arts Archive
Nevada Museum of Art announces Center for Art + Environment
The Nevada Museum of Art announces the launch of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada. A series of highlights marked the creation of the Center, including the appointment of William L. Fox as the Center’s first director, the formation of an international advisory group, the acquisition of archives from the Land Arts of the American West and never-before-seen Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria archival materials from The Deiro Collection.
The foundation for the Center’s mission is to: encourage the creation of artworks expressing the interaction between people and their environments; convene artists, scholars and communities to document, research and analyze such artworks; and increase public knowledge of these creative and scholarly endeavors.
Click here to read the full press release announcing the launch of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art.
05 January 2009
Performing Land Arts: the Philadelphia Experiment
Land Arts Workshop
January 12-16, 2009, Reception: Friday, January 16, 2009, 6-8pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
In conjunction with Field Reports: documents and strategies of Land Arts of the American West, exhibition organizer Chris Taylor and Kate Wingert-Playdon, a professor of architecture, Tyler School of Art, will work with university students to examine Philadelphia as a landscape and an interpretative site. For a week in January, the group will participate in a charrette, putting the working methods of Land Arts into action in Philadelphia. Participants will work collaboratively and on their own individual projects. The workshop began with a tour of industrial sites in the Meadowlands of New Jersey by Matthew Coolidge, Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles. Products of the workshop will be on view in Temple Gallery through February 28, 2009.
Student Participantss:
Gretchen Batcheller, Temple University, Fine Arts
Andrea Marie DeVico, Temple University, Architecture
Marisa A. Lopez, Temple University, Architecture
Sarah Muehlbauer, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jess Perlitz, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jenna Price, Temple University, Fine Arts
Nicole Rinier, Temple University, Fine Arts
David Rueter, Oberlin College, Political Theory
Marcello Lopes Schiffino, Temple University, Architecture
Kristina Simcic, Temple University, Architecture
Kaitlin Westphal McDonald, Temple University, Architecture
Xiao D. Zhang, Temple University, Architecture
Field Reports Lecture by Kate Wingert-Playdon
Philadelphia: Urban / scape
A Lecture by Kate Wingert-Playdon
Monday, January 12, 2009, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Kate Wingert-Playdon will examine two underlying structures of Philadelphia’s context: the Penn / Holmes ideal plan of 1683 and the topography and landscape. Philadelphia: Urban / scape will pose questions about the overlaid systems; of planning, of building, of water, transportation, and human occupation, and how the underlying structures have emerged on the surface. Wingert-Playdon is an architect with research and design addressing overlaps of architecture, site, and settlement. Her current work includes both research and on-site work focused on the role of community, the cultural manifestation of place and the particularity of site. She is Associate Professor of Architecture at Temple University, and Managing Editor of ARCC Journal.
Event held in conjunction with Field Reports: documents and strategies of Land Arts of the American West.
Field Reports Lecture by Matthew Coolidge
Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology: Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
A Lecture by Matthew Coolidge
Friday, January 9, 2009, 6pm
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Matthew Coolidge, Founder and Director of Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), will discuss the current and recent activities of CLUI, and the methodology of examining culture by describing the physical features of the landscape. The presentation will span the nation, looking at unusual and exemplary places, from bombing ranges to tourist caves.
About the Center for Land Use Interpretation: CLUI takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history. The work of the Center has been presented in museums and noncommercial exhibit spaces, nationally and abroad, as well as in the institution’s network of public exhibit facilities. The Center maintains an online database of unusual and exemplary land use in the United States, publishes books, operates a residence program and interpretive site, and conducts public tours.
This lecture is cosponsored by Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies and held in conjunction with Field Reports: documents and strategies of Land Arts of the American West.
01 December 2008
Field Reports Lecture by Thaddeus Squire
Hidden Philadelphia
A Lecture by Thaddeus Squire
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
A curator, writer, scholar, conductor, sound artist, producer, and Director and Founder of Peregrine Arts, Thaddeus Squire will discuss art and place, including transferable art practice, revising historical site-specific works, and the impact of site-specific works. Squire is currently organizing “Hidden City,” a festival taking place in 2009 that will explore and reactivate forgotten urban sites in Philadelphia through commissioned art, music, and performance.
Event held in conjunction with Field Reports: documents and strategies of Land Arts of the American West.
19 November 2008
Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West
Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
November 22, 2008 - February 28, 2009
Reception: Friday, November 21, 6 - 8pm
Opening in November 2008 at Temple Gallery, Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West examines new developments in the study of landscape with documents and strategies produced by “Land Arts of the American West,” a field program that combines art practices with the broader overlays of ecology, archaeology, geography, performance, architecture, and science. Creating work both on site and in the studio, these interdisciplinary investigations encompass the natural forces that shape the land and the social and cultural dynamics that define place.
This exhibition, which will include documents, photographs and videos, was organized by Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University. Special programs in conjunction with the exhibition will include lectures by Thaddeus Squire, Matthew Coolidge, Kate Wingert-Playdon, Chris Taylor, and Winifred Lutz, and a charrette workshop led by Taylor and Wingert-Playdon that will result in a companion exhibition.
02 October 2008
Art + Environment Conference
Art + Environment Conference
Nevada Art Museum
October 2 - 4, 2008
Land Arts was featured at the Art + Enivironment Conference hosted by Nevada Art Museum with a presentation from Bill Gilbert. For the live blog record by Extreme Media Studies and additional information see the conference ning site.