LAND/ART: A Collaborative Exploration of Land-based Art in New Mexico
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) opened the six-month environmental art project LAND/ART on Saturday with a guided bus tour through New Mexico’s built landscapes. Appropriately set in the American Southwest, where pioneering land-based artists created the first generation of works, LAND/ART brings together arts organizations from across the state, and
explores relationships of land, art and community through dozens of new exhibitions, community-based projects, site-specific art works, speakers series, performances, tours, excursions and a culminating book.
CLUI Visits Desert Christ Park, 2007. Photo courtesy of CLUI.
The first exhibition, Experimental Geography, opened Sunday with a symposium and reception at the Albuquerque Museum. The group showing is a survey of this burgeoning field, curated by Nato Thompson and organized and circulated by Independent Curators International. Experimental Geography is on through September 20, 2009, and includes work by the following artists:
Francis Alÿs
AREA Chicago
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio)
e-Xplo
Ilana Halperin
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
Lize Mogel
Multiplicity
Trevor Paglen
Raqs Media Collective
Ellen Rothenberg
Spurse
Deborah Stratman
Daniel Tucker, The We Are Here Map Archive
Alex Villar
Yin Ziuzhen
LAND/ART continues through November 2009, with a calendar full of events.
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