Within the Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture, Land Arts is a “semester abroad in our own backyard” where architects, artists, historians, and writers camped for fifty-three nights while traveling 5,251 miles overland to experience major land art monuments—Double Negative, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, The Lightning Field—while also visiting sites expanding our understanding of what land art might be such as pre-contact archeology of Chaco Canyon, scientific exploration at the Very Large Array, and military-industrial operations in the Great Salt Lake Desert. To negotiate the multivalent meaning of these places and shed light on strategies to aid their comprehension we invited the wisdom of field guests—writers, artists, and interpreters—to join specific portions of our journey. 2024 field guests included Aurora Tang of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, artists Dionne Lee, Deborah Stratman and Steve Badgett, art historian Ann Reynolds, and Aaron Hegert and Eric Simpson of Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art, among many others. Land Arts hinges on the primacy of first-person experience and the realization that human-land relationships are rarely singular.
The exhibition culminates the semester-long transdisciplinary field program Land Arts of the American West presenting works by students Hallie Ayres, Levi Baruch, Viola Bordon, Ian Dippo, Isaac Dunne, Laura Friedman, Alexander Garza, Jennifer Loyd, and Caleb Mancillas.
The Land Arts 2024 Exhibition will continue through April 25th, 2025.
To read the full press release from Land Arts of the American West on the 2024 exhibition, click here.
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Posted:
2/26/2025
Originator:
Miranda Perlmutter
Email:
miperlmu@ttu.edu
Department:
N/A
Event Information
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Date: 2/28/2025
Location:
3301 4th Street Lubbock, Texas 79415 Museum of Texas Tech University
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