Summary
Like a seed planted in fertile soil, the LAND/ART project in New Mexico has been germinating in isolation, waiting for the right moment to burst upon the scene in a variety of colors. From June through December, the fruits of labor will come to bear. More than 60 artists and 25 organizations take part in one of the most extensive collaborative and creative efforts ever to occur in the state. Site installations, exhibitions, lectures, performances, special tours, and films will focus exclusively on the interconnectedness between art, the environment, and community in New Mexico.
"The LAND/ART project has been brewing for several years," said Suzanne Sbarge, project coordinator and executive director of 516 ARTS in Albuquerque. "516 ARTS, the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, the Contemporary Art Society [of New Mexico], The University of New Mexico Art Museum, and THE LAND/an art site [an environmental-art venue in Mountainair, New Mexico] were the founding organizations that launched the project, and many more organizations have joined in since this all started. There is a very strong interest in this type of artwork right now, as concerns about the environment are so much at the forefront of people's minds. And artists bring different perspectives to thinking about our relationships with nature and the environment," she said.See the full content of this document
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Land/Art Ho!
Rebecca Solnit, the author of Wanderlust:
A History of Walking and a participant in the project, states in her essay "Elements of a New Landscape" for the 1994 book Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century: "In landscape art, contemporary artists recognize landscape not as scenery but as the spaces and systems we inhabit, systems that our lives depend up...See the full content of this document
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