Critical Landscapes : Art, Space, Politics / ed. by Kirsten J Swenson, Emily Eliza Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Emily Eliza, Editor.

Swenson, Kirsten J, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use

PART I AGAINST THE ABSTRACTION OF SPACE

Introduction

1 JULIAN MYERS-SZUPINSKA After the Production of Space

2 TREVOR PAGLEN Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space

3 SARAH KANOUSE Critical Day Trips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice

ARTWORKS

4 URSULA BIEMANN Sahara Chronicle (2006–9)

5 KIRSTEN SWENSON on Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002)

6 AMY BALKIN A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012–)

7 RUTH ERICKSON on The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012)

8 EDGAR ARCENEAUX AND JULIAN MYERS-SZUPINSKA Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005–)

PART II LAND CLAIMS: SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY

9 JULIA BRYAN-WILSON Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces

10 JEANNINE TANG Look Again: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, and Andrea Geyer’s Spiral Lands

11 KELLY C. BAUM Earthkeeping, Earthshaking

12 NUIT BANAI on Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005)

13 YAZAN KHALILI What Is a Photograph? (2013)

14 AARON BOBROW-STRAIN on Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001–2)

15 SHILOH KRUPAR Where Eagles Dare (2013)

16 NICHOLAS BROWN The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011–)

17 LORENZO PEZZANI on The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Return to Jaff a (2012)

18 CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO, AMBER DAY, AND NICOLE SIGGINS WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR INFINITELY SMALL THINGS The Border Crossed Us (2011)

PART III GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

19 T. J. DEMOS Another World, and Another . . . : Notes on Uneven Geographies

20 ASHLEY DAWSON Documenting Accumulation by Dispossession

21 DONGSEI KIM on Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005–11)

22 KELLY C. BAUM on Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006–7)

23 JAMES NISBET on Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005)

24 GIULIA PAOLETTI on George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003–7)

25 URSULA BIEMANN Deep Weather (2013)

26 LUKE SKREBOWSKI on Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007)

27 LIZE MOGEL Area of Detail (2010)

PART IV URBANIZATION WITH NO OUTSIDE

28 JANET KRAYNAK The Land and the Economics of Sustainability

29 YING ZHOU Growing Ecologies of Contemporary Art: Vignettes from Shanghai

30 CHUNGHOON SHIN on FlyingCity, All-things Park (2004)

31 DAVID PINDER on Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001)

32 JENNA M. LOYD AND ANDREW BURRIDGE on Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005)

33 LIZE MOGEL on The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Aff ordable Housing Toolkit (2010)

34 ROBBY HERBST on Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012)

35 PAUL MONTY PARET on eteam, International Airport Montello (2005–8)

36 SALONI MATHUR on Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005–8)

CONTRIBUTORS

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