Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics

Published by University of California Press 2015

Critical Landscapes

Art, Space, Politics

Edited by: Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten J Swenson

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520961319

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From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies.

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Scott Emily Eliza :

Emily Eliza Scott is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), and founding member of the art collectives the Los Angeles Urban Rangers and World of Matter. She also served as a National Park Service ranger from 1994 to 2005. She is a contributor to Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974 and Geohumanities: Art, History, and Text at the Edge of Place, and has published articles in American Art, Art Journal, Cultural Geographies, and Third Text.

Kirsten Swenson is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and the 1960s and has written numerous articles for Art in America, Art Journal, and American Art.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. AGAINST THE ABSTRACTION OF SPACE
1. After the Production of Space Julian Myers-Szupinska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space1 Trevor Paglen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Critical Day Trips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice Sarah Kanouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
ARTWORKS
4. Sahara Chronicle (2006–9) Ursula Biemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. On Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) Kirsten Swenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
6. A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012–) Amy Balkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
7. On The Otolith Group, The Radiant (2012) Ruth Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
8. Mirror Travel in the Motor City (2005–) Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers-Szupinska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
PART II. LAND CLAIMS: SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY
9. Aftermath: Two Queer Artists Respond to Nuclear Spaces Julia Bryan-Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
10. Look Again: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, and Andrea Geyer’s Spiral Lands Jeannine Tang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
11. Earthkeeping, Earthshaking Kelly C. Baum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
ARTWORKS
12. Sigalit Landau, DeadSee (2005) Nuit Banai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
13. What Is a Photograph? (2013) Yazan Khalili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
14. On Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark (Foot Prints) (2001–2) Aaron Bobrow-Strain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
15. Where Eagles Dare (2013) Shiloh Krupar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
16. The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project (2011–) Nicholas Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
17. On The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Return to Jaff a (2012) Lorenzo Pezzani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
18. The Border Crossed Us (2011) Catherine D’Ignazio, Amber Day and Nicole Siggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
PART III. GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM
19. Another World, and Another . . . : Notes on Uneven Geographies T. J. Demos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
20. Documenting Accumulation by Dispossession Ashley Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
ARTWORKS
21. On Teddy Cruz, The Political Equator (2005–11) Dongsei Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
22. On Santiago Sierra, Sumisión (Submission, formerly Word of Fire) (2006–7) Kelly C. Baum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
23. On Simon Starling, One Ton II (2005) James Nisbet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
24. On George Osodi, Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003–7) Giulia Paoletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
25. Deep Weather (2013) Ursula Biemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
26. On Tue Greenfort, Exceeding 2 Degrees (2007) Luke Skrebowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
27. Area of Detail (2010) Lize Mogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
PART IV. URBANIZATION WITH NO OUTSIDE
28. The Land and the Economics of Sustainability Janet Kraynak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
29. Growing Ecologies of Contemporary Art: Vignettes from Shanghai Ying Zhou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
ARTWORKS
30. On FlyingCity, All-things Park (2004) Chunghoon Shin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
31. On Nils Norman, The Contemporary Picturesque (2001) David Pinder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
32. On Laura Kurgan and Eric Cadora, Million Dollar Blocks (2005) Jenna M. Loyd and Andrew Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
33. On the Center for Urban Pedagogy, Affordable Housing Toolkit (2010) Lize Mogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
34. On Olga Koumoundouros, Notorious Possession (2012) Robby Herbst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
35. On eteam, International Airport Montello (2005–8) Paul Monty Paret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
36. On Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2005–8) Saloni Mathur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257