Read “Chunks of Land, Art and Otherwise” by Macaella Gray and Zoe Roden in Glasstire, 8 January 2023.
Publications
Read the insightful queries of the Land Arts program by Laura August in Arts & Culture Texas, 17 April 2019.
Read the generative critique by Natalie Hegert of the Land Arts 2018 Exhibition in Glasstire.
Read “Decentering Land Art from the Borderlands: A Review of Through the Repellent Fence” by Emily Eliza Scott, a review of Through the Repellent Fence. Sam Wainwright Douglas, director, 2017. Austin, Texas: Big Beard Films, 2017. Digital film, col. footage, 74 min.
Read “Troubling Troublemakers” by Chris Taylor in Art Journal 75, no. 2 (Summer 2016), a review of Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. James Crump, director and writer, 2015. With Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Germano Celant, Paula Cooper, Walter De Maria, Virginia Dwan, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ross, Pamela Sharp, Willoughby Sharp, Robert Smithson, Harald Szeemann, and Lawrence Weiner. New York: Summitridge Pictures and RSJC LLC, 2015. Digital film, b/w and col. footage, 72 min.
Land Arts 2014 Itinerary.
Jack Murphy has a feature on Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University in the March/April 2015 issue of Texas Architect magazine (pages 48-55). Check it online at
http://issuu.com/taartdir/docs/ta15_m-a_web/51?e=1238403/11781246
Sam Douglas, Austin, Texas, May 2011.
Land Arts Documentary
Sam Douglas, creator of Citizen Architect, began work in 2011 on a film about Land Arts of the American West that went on to become Through the Repellent Fence: a land art film. The narrative through line follows the indigenous collective Postcommodity as they implement a border crossing temporary artwork. Sam has a keen eye, great heart, and is a wonderful storyteller. The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight 2017 in New York and has gone on to screen at SXSW and many other keen venues. It broadcast on the PBS World Channel on 24 April 2018.
Visiting Sun Tunnels, near Lucin, Utah, 15 September 2010.
Land Arts in the New York Times
Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech featured in the New York Times, Wednesday 4 May 2011. Written by Randy Kennedy, who visited the Land Arts 2010 Exhibition in late April, the article was accompanied by an online slide show with images from the 2010 field season.
The story was also published in the The Seattle Times (7 May 2011), The Houston Chronicle (9 May 2011), San Antonio Express (9 May 2011), Revista Ñ in Buenos Aires, Argentina (28 June 2011), The Korea Times (29 June 2011) and in El Pais in Spain (30 June 2011).
Land Arts book, 2009.
Land Arts Book
In 2009 the University of Texas Press published the book Land Arts of the American West presenting the history of collaboration between Bill Gilbert and Chris Taylor as they developed the program. The book is organized around places they visited during field seasons each fall, which come alive through color photographs and descriptive information about natural and human history; first-person experiences from student journal entries; essays by William L. Fox, Ann Reynolds, J.J. Brody, and Lucy Lippard; and interviews with Mary Lewis Garcia, Graciela Martinez de Gallegos and Hector Gallegos, and Matthew Coolidge. Woven throughout is a conversation among Taylor, Gilbert, and Fox, who draws the authors out to describe the program’s origins, pedagogic mission, field operations, interactions with guests, and future directions.
University of Texas Press, April 2009
8 x 10 inches, 384 pp., 441 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-292-71672-8
Oficina Salitera Prosperidad, Chile, 2007.
Atacama Lab Book
Incubo Atacama Lab began when the curatorial exchange organization Incubo invited Chris Taylor to bring the working methods of Land Arts of the American West to Chile. Land Arts is 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. 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 create contemporary responses to the industrial use of land over time, all of which is documented in this book. Includes texts in Spanish and English with a preface by Incubo, introductory essay by Chris Taylor, excerpted field notes by William L. Fox, and essays from Flora Vilches, Gonzalo Pedraza, Rodrigo Perez de Arce, Pilar Cereceda, and Andres Rivera. Illustrated with full color photography by Jorge Brantmayer, Blake Gordon, Barbara Palomino, and Chris Taylor. Design by Patricio Pozo and Andrea Iruretagoyena of Pozo Marcic Ensamble. Printed in Chile.
Incubo, December 2008
9.7 x 7.4 inches, 184 pp., full color illus.
ISBN: 978-9563196115
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