Land
Arts of the American West 2018
Land Arts of the American West at the
University of New Mexico is preparing for another incredible fall program with
our Art & Ecology students, visiting artists, activists, and community
members,
at sites across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and
Arizona. We will also be engaged in several collaborative projects along the
way.
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Here
is a quick preview of what’s to come.
Collaborative
Projects
A Garden TBA
at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History
A Garden TBA is a
collaborative garden intervention in conjunction with SeedBroadcast Seed the Resilience: agri-Culture and
Climate Change at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. This project
brings together visiting artist Christine Mackey, local farmers Tiana Baca and Sarah
Montgomery, Land Arts of the American West, and Intermediate
Art & Ecology Students to create a public earthwork on site at the museum. An
accompanying symposium and performance will be held on December 6, 2018.
NeoRio Roots
~ Raices
Land
Arts of the American West artists, along with visiting artist Francisco
Letelier, will bring their innovative field-based creative research process to
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument/Wild Rivers and the NeoRio annual
outdoor contemporary art event to generate environmental installations for the
public. Inspired by the theme, Roots ~
Raices, this group of artists will work both individually and
collaboratively across creative disciplines of performance, time-based media,
sculpture, and experimental art to explore a rooted sense of place. Artist will
convene as a collective group a week before the event and camp on-site as they
intimately explore the Rio Grande gorge. This embodied exploration will lead to
a series of intuitive creative responses by these artists, presented as
finished works of art to share with the public.
Resisting
Extraction in the Greater Chaco Region
Grater
Chaco community members and activists Daniel Tso, Mario Atencio, and Beata
Tsosie-Peña will guide LAAW students through learning about environmental
justice in indigenous communities and current oil and gas development in the
Greater Chaco Region. Then visiting artist and fracking activist, Asha Canalos,
will facilitate a project with LAAW to make the invisible, visible through a
collaborative zine project.
Migration,
Extinction, and Nature/Culture Dialogues in the US/Mexico Border Zone
Borderlands
Restoration Network, along with visiting writer Francisco Cantú and artist
Karima Walker will work with Land Arts of the American West students to
investigate migration and extinction in the US/Mexico Border Zone through a
creative study of bats, agave, and anthropogenic impacts, resulting in a
creative time-based production.
2018 LAAW
Exhibition
The
annual 2018 Land Arts of the American West Exhibition will take place at UNM
John Sommers Gallery and at off-site locations from December 3 – 13, 2018,
along with a public reception on December 7.
Creative Bioregional
Field Sites
Headwaters
of the Rio Grande, SW Colorado
Muley
Point, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Gila
River and Wilderness, NM
White
Sands, NM
LAAW Visiting
Artists, Writers, Activists, Organizations, and Community Members:
Utah Diné Bikéyah
Land
Arts of the American West
University
of New Mexico
http://landarts.unm.edu
landarts@unm.edu
Land
Arts of the American West: to inspire and support environmentally and socially
engaged art practices through field-based bioregional teaching, collective
learning, interdisciplinary research, community collaboration, and creative
forms of publication and exhibition.
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