Anti-Monumentality and the Afterlives of ‘Land Art’ in Britain

Описание: This one-day symposium sets out to stimulate new inquiry into the histories and futures of ‘land art’ in Britain.

Seeking to understand the afterlives of ‘land art’ – and the contentious nature of the label – this symposium examines the approaches, techniques, materials, and modes of documentation associated with the movement, and the ways it continues to inform contemporary art today.

This event was programmed to coincide with Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time at Henry Moore Institute.

Opening Conversation:

‘About the Planet: Land Art, Anti-Monumentality, and the Labour of Listening’
Ashish Ghadiali, artist
Prof Joy Sleeman, Slade School of Fine Art

Session One: Extraction
Chaired by Ben Tufnell, independent

‘Land Art and its Political Ecologies: Charles Jencks’s Fife Earth Project (2009-13) – A Case Study’
Dr Edward Christie, independent

‘Peat in Practice: A Performance Lecture’
Manon Awst, artist

‘Burning the Thames: Floating Fire Machine (1975)’
Trey Burns, artist/Texas State University

‘The Terrain of the Image: Revisiting On Living Stones and Reaching (2020)’
Alexander Mourant, artist/Kingston University
Lunch


Session Two: Documentation
Chaired by Prof Joy Sleeman

‘Envisioning a Kincentric World: Filmic Anti-Monuments and the Legacy of Land Art’
Dr. Sajda van der Leeuw, University of Utrecht

‘Pissing In/On Nature’
Dr Naomi Pearce, Aberystwyth University

‘‘De-Architecturization’ in the Digital Age: Reimagining Hotel Palenque’
Allyson Packer, artist/Stevens Institute of Technology
Break


Session Three: Exhibition
Chaired by Dr Sean Ketteringham

‘Offending Shadows. Jeremy Deller’s Triumph of Art and subversions of Land Art in Britain’
Daniel F. Herrmann and Emily Stone, The National Gallery, London

‘Making Outside for Inside: How Attitudes Became Exhibitions’
Amanda Geitner, PGR Norwich University of the Arts

‘Land Art Lives: (Inter)national Program on the Future of Land Art’
Anne Reenders and Martine van Kampen, Land Art Lives