{"id":268,"date":"2009-04-11T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-04-12T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:03:52","slug":"land-arts-of-the-american-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/land-arts-of-the-american-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Arts of the American West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I went to a talk at Parsons today on Land Art, presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incubo.cl\/ingles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Incubo<\/a> (Chile) and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/landarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Land Arts of the American West<\/a> (Texas).<br \/>\nThe 2 groups worked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthworkslab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, Earthworks Lab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Land Arts of the American West is <em>&#8220;an interdisciplinary field program 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. Land art includes gestures both small and grand, directing our attention from potsherd, cigarette butt, and mark in the sand to human settlements, monumental artworks, and military\/industrial projects such as hydroelectric dams and decommissioned airfields.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/landarts.org\/images\/uploads\/040908_jetty_cjt_024.jpg\" alt=\"Smithson, Spiral Jetty\" width=\"357\" height=\"237\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">     Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 359px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a id=\"add_image\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Add an Image\" href=\"media-upload.php?post_id=268&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=true\"><img src=\"images\/media-button-image.gif\" alt=\"Add an Image\" \/><\/a><em><em><em><em><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/landarts.org\/images\/uploads\/041005_ceb_cl_010.jpg\" alt=\"Carissa Leos, If Lost Relax, Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico, 2004.\" width=\"349\" height=\"261\" \/><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carissa Leos, If Lost Relax, Cebolla Canyon, New Mexico, 2004.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of Incubo&#8217;s projects is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incubo.cl\/ingles\/nomade.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Nomade<\/a>, taking a 4wd bus out into remote landscapes. First foray for artists and designers went to the Atacama Desert, engaging in\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24815748@N00\/1721728432\/\" target=\"_blank\">fog-catching<\/a>, speculative interventions, and inquiring into recent post-industrial landscapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/en\/ev-26965-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Tapping fog<\/a> or fog harvesting has\u00a0 successful in many\u00a0 localized instances.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windows.ucar.edu\/vocals\/images\/fog_collector_idrc_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"262\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fog water collectors on El Tofo mountain, Chile. Water from the fog condenses on these large nets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><!--\/*ImageCaptionHigh--><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a talk at Parsons today on Land Art, presented by Incubo (Chile) and\u00a0 Land Arts of the American West (Texas). The 2 groups worked on this, Earthworks Lab. Land Arts of the American West is &#8220;an interdisciplinary field program expanding the definition of land art through direct experience with the full range &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/land-arts-of-the-american-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Land Arts of the American West&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}