{"id":5974,"date":"2024-02-21T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/?page_id=5974"},"modified":"2024-02-21T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:14:02","slug":"land-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/as2024\/ueber\/land-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Land & Environmental Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Land\u00a0& Environmental\u00a0Art<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Land and Environmental\u00a0Art is art that is created in and with nature and is also partly presented in it. Its predecessors are Earth Art (60s), Land Art (70s) and Eco Art (since the late 60s). Its central themes are nature in general, biodiversity, climate and sustainability. These projects address ecological, political, social and systemic concerns. They are usually site-specific and have evolved from sculptural to processual, conceptual and transdisciplinary forms.<\/p>\n

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\nAgnes Denes: Wheatfield \u2013 A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill Manhattan NY (1982)<\/em><\/p>\n

What is Land Art? Alternatively referred to as Earthworks, Earth Art and Land Art, in the 1960s and 70s, there emerged an aggregation of novel artistic practices keyed to the natural landscape. Located outside the mainstream art making and institutions, these practices challenged the ideas associated with art making, aesthetic categories and location.<\/p>\n

\"BildschirmfotoRobert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, 1970 (Great Salt Lake, Utah)<\/em><\/p>\n

Land Art began as an American phenomenon, represented by artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, and Walther De Maria, only later spreading to Great Britain and continental Europe. As a way of avoiding traditional painting or sculpture, Land artists turned to the medium of landscape,\u00a0using the earth as canvas and exploring caterpillars and bulldozers as artistic tools. Unlike its direct predecessor Arte Povera and Minimalism, Land Art privileged the natural habitat rather than the space of a conventional gallery. These early artworks \u2014 trenches, mounds, rocks, and excavations \u2014 demanded an open space and sense of scale unachievable in the city.<\/p>\n

\"BildschirmfotoRichard Long: Sculpture, England, 1968<\/em><\/p>\n

While Land artists understood themselves as explorers of the remote, vast landscapes of American deserts which became sites\u00a0for their art, questioning the established perceptions of locality, objecthood, density, mass, and scale. Both historic and current present Land Art engages with the understanding of landscape not only as the earth\u2019s physicality but also with the physiology and psychology of the viewer\u2014a beholder and participant.<\/p>\n

Literature:
\n<\/strong>\u2013 AMO\/Rem Koolhaas: Countryside A Report,<\/em> Guggenheim Taschen, 2020
\n\u2013 Andrea Brown: Art & Ecology Now,<\/em> Thames & Hudson, 2014
\n\u2013 T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee (Ed.): The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change<\/em>, Routledge, 2021
\n\u2013 Barnaby Drabble (Ed.): Along Ecological Lines. Contemporary Art and climate crisis, <\/em>Gaia Project Press, 2019
\n\u2013 Earth Beats<\/em> (Ausstellungskatalog), Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, 2021
\n\u2013 Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Ed.): Art and Climate Change<\/em> (World of Art), Thames and Hudson, 2022
\n\u2013 Johannes M. Hedinger (Ed): LEARNING FROM THE EARTH<\/em>. ILEA Books 1, ILEA PRESS, Vexer Verlag St.Gallen\/Berlin, 2023
\n\u2013 Johannes M. Hedinger \/ Hanna H\u00f6lling (Ed.): LANDSCAPE #1<\/em>.\u00a0Institute\u00a0for Land and Environmental Art, Vexer Verlag St.Gallen\/Berlin, 2020
\n\u2013 Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis:\u00a0Land and Environmental Art.<\/em>\u00a0Phaidon, Boston, 1998.
\n\u2013 Philipp Kaiser, Miwon Kwon: Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,<\/em> Prestel M\u00fcnchen, 2012.
\n\u2013 Anne Kersten: Kunst und Landwirtschaft: Realit\u00e4tsbez\u00fcge in der Gegenwartskunst<\/em>. Transcript, 2021
\n\u2013 Bruno Latour \/ Peter Weibel (Ed.): Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth,<\/em> MIT Press 2020
\n\u2013 Lucy R. Lippard: Undermining,<\/em> The New Press, 2014
\n\u2013 Timothy Morton: All Art is Ecological<\/em>, Green Ideas, Penguin Books, 2021
\n\u2013 Thomas Oberender (Ed.): Down to Earth. Entw\u00fcrfe f\u00fcr eine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit<\/em>, Spector Books, 2021
\n\u2013 Myvillages (Ed.): The Rural<\/em>, Documents of Contemporary Art, MIT Press, 2019<\/p>\n

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\nCom&Com: Bergkanzel, Art Safiental 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

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