Land Arts

Catalog description

This ekphrastic workshop/seminar overflows the traditional definition of Land Art to encompass a much greater range, including contemporary modes of ecologically-oriented art. The class will be broken down into five thematic sections: 1) interventional land art, in which the earth is sculpted, excavated, or augmented; 2) ephemeral land art; in which elements from the landscape are worked into impermanent works; 3) kinetic land art, in which artists participate in the land, rather than making an object of or from it; 4) growing land art, in which plants and trees are grown into constantly changing and yet permanent forms; and 5) ecologically-oriented art, in which a variety of materials and practices are engaged to underscore contemporary issues of ecological importance.