Art & Art History News - March 21, 2023

Today!! Tuesday, March 21st
12:00 pm Seminar Room
VAC 287
(Lunch included)

The Field School is an intensive 3-week summer program that puts students in touch with various rural and remote landscapes while focusing on site and context-based approaches to art creation.

The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn through the experience and process of understanding place by making new artwork on-site while living and working in the field. Students create and discuss various approaches to art creation while exploring many mediums, including writing, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound recording, and land-based art.

Post-studio encourages art practices such as dialogical and context-based actions surrounding topics like nature and process, phenomenology, borderlands, pastoralism, wayfaring, walking, pilgrimages, ecologies, colonialism, ownership and exploitation, conservation, cultural representation, settler-scapes, reconciliation, idealized landscapes, dualities, centers, and peripheries.

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Tuesday, April 4
6:30 PM in the VAC complex auditorium 1B20

Aurora Tang (she/her) is the program director at the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), a non-profit research organization involved in exploring and understanding contemporary land and landscape issues. The organization produces exhibitions about land use phenomenology in the USA and displays them at its exhibit locations and at other museums and non-commercial and educational venues as well. The CLUI produces publications, online resources, tours, lectures, and other public programs across the country.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the surface of the earth, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create. They believe that the manmade landscape is a cultural inscription, that can be read to better understand who we are, and what we are doing. The organization was founded in 1994, and since that time it has continuously produced public programs that include exhibits on land use, shown in its own network of exhibit facilities, and in public institutions all over the United States, and overseas. The Center has also published books and periodicals, conducted public tours, and hosted lectures. From the inception of the organization, much of its activity has been focused on an online audience, where visitors to its website can freely access databases and archives. The CLUI exists to stimulate discussion, thought, and general interest in the contemporary landscape. Neither an environmental group nor an industry-affiliated organization, the work of the Center integrates the many approaches to land use—the many perspectives of the landscape—into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in “land use” debates. At the very least, the Center attempts to emphasize the multiplicity of points of view regarding the utilization of terrestrial and geographic resources.