Critical landscapes : art, space, politics / edited by Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Emily Eliza, 1971- editor.

Swenson, Kirsten, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes in art.

Landscape architecture.

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Land use--Political aspects.

Land use.

Cultural landscapes.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Summary:

"From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Against the abstraction of space

After the production of space / Julian Myers-Szupinska

Experimental geography : from cultural production to the production of space / Trevor Paglen

Critical day trips : tourism and land-based practice / Sarah Kanouse

Sahara Chronicle (2006-9) / Ursula Biemann

On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) / Kirsten Swenson

A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012-) / Amy Balkin

On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) / Ruth Erickson

Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005-) / Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska

Part II Land claims : space and subjectivity

Aftermath : two queer artists respond to nuclear spaces / Julia Bryan-Wilson

Look again : subjectivity, sovereignity, and Andrea Geyer's Spiral Lands / Jeannine Tang

Earthkeeping, earthshaking / Kelly C. Baum

On Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) / Nuit Banai

What Is a Photograph? (2013) / Yazan Khalili

On Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001-2) / Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Where Eagles Dare (2013) / Shiloh Krupar

The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011-) / Nicholas Brown

on The decolonizing architecture art residency Return to Jaffa (2012) / Lorenzo Pezzani

The Border Crossed Us (2011) / Catherine D'Ignazio, Amber Day, and Nicole Siggins with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things

Part III Geographies of global capitalism

Another world, and another...: Notes on Uneven Geographies / T.J. Demos

Documenting accumulation by dispossession / Ashley Dawson

On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005-11) / Dongsei Kim

On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006-7) / Kelly C. Baum

On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) / James Nisbet

On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003-7) / Giulia Paoletti

Deep Weather (2013) / Ursula Biemann

On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) / Luke Skrebowski

Area of Detail (2010) / Lize Mogel

Part IV

Urbanization with No Outside

The land and the economics of sustainability / Janet Kraynak

Growing ecologies of contemporary art : vignettes from Shanghai / Ying Zhou

On FlyingCity, All Things Park (2004) / Chunghoon Shin

On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) / David Pinder

On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) / Jenna M. Lloyd and Andrew Burridge

On The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Tooklit (2010) / Liz Mogel

On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) / Robby Herbst

On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005-8) / Paul Monty Paret

On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005-8) / Saloni Mathur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520285484

0520285484

9780520285491

0520285492

OCLC:

894139999