Editors: 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' (Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England), launch: December 2006

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[A] complex and ambitious volume ... a conceptual toolkit for comprehending the linked future of the two terms in question – Brian Dillon, Frieze, Summer 2007. More...

LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, was commissioned by RSA Arts & Ecology in partnership with Arts Council England. The book was launched in London [51º30’N, 0º 07’W] on December 2006 coinciding with the RSA, Arts Council England and London School of Economics & Political Science's symposia ‘No Way Back?’.
Accompanying the first year of the RSA’s Arts & Ecology programme, this compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned pages by artists, new and reprinted texts and interviews by ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators explored art’s varied modes of response to notions of territory, the Earth and the emergencies of 21st century. In part a genealogy of ‘land’ and what has been understood by ‘the environment’ since the 1960s—with the activities of ‘Land artists' and the emergence of a popular ‘eco’-consciousness—the publication proposed and tested if and how our conceptions of art and artists are relevant to a global debate about the future of the planet, and where, how and why art might operate—at the grass roots, at a tangent, as propaganda, activism or as resistance, for example.

Contributions by Lara Almarcegui, Amy Balkin, James Boyle, Fernando Bryce, Susan Canney, Chu Yun, Jimmie Durham & Maria Thereza Alves, Feng Yuan, Futurefarmers & Free Soil, Tue Greenfort, Thomas Hirschhorn, Katie Holten, Jiang Jun, Jeffrey Kastner, Winona LaDuke, Learning Group, Lucy R. Lippard, Wangari Maathai, Jonathan Meuser, Jason Middlebrook, Nils Norman, David Naguib Pellow & Lisa Sun-Hee Park, PLATFORM, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Paul Schmelzer, Peter Schmelzer, Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus, Cameron Sinclair, Stephanie Smith, Bruce Sterling, Kirstine Roepstorff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Toop, Vitamin Creative Space, Insa Winkler, the Worldwatch Institute and Zheng Guogu. Artists’ ‘plates’ section: Claire Bishop on Francis Alÿs, Gemma Lloyd on Donna Conlon, Max Andrews on Henrik Håkansson and Insa Winkler, Diana Baldon on Marine Hugonnier, Mariana Cánepa Luna on Alfredo Jaar, Zoë Gray on Brian Jungen, Lars Bang Larsen on Aleksandra Mir, Richard Flood on Richard Prince, Alejandra Aguado on Tomás Saraceno, Francesco Manacorda on Simon Starling. – Read their biographies here.

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Editores: 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' (Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England), presentación: Diciembre 2006

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[Un] complejo y ambicioso volumen ... una caja de herramientas conceptuales para comprender la futura conexión entre los dos términos en cuestión
– Brian Dillon, Frieze, Verano 2007. Más...

LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook [LAND, ART: Un Manual de Ecologia Cultural], fue publicado por el RSA Arts & Ecology en colaboración con el Arts Council England y se presentó en Londres [51º30’N, 0º 07’W] en Diciembre 2006 coincidiendo con el simposio ‘No Way Back?’ organizada por el RSA, el Arts Council England y la London School of Economics & Political Science.
Acompañando el primer año de actividades del programa Arts & Ecology iniciado por el RSA, este compendio de ensayos, diálogos y proyectos de artistas, textos nuevos o reimpresos y entrevistas a ecologistas, teóricos culturales, activistas y comisarios explora los modos en que el arte ha respondido a las nociones de territorio, la Tierra y las emergencias del siglo XXI. En parte una genealogía de la tierra y lo que se ha denominado como 'el medioambiente' desde los años sesenta – tras las actividades de los llamados artistas del Land art y la emergencia de la 'eco'-consciencia – esta publicación analiza nuestras concepciones sobre el arte y los artistas y cuestiona su lugar en el debate global sobre el futuro del planeta, y sobre dónde, cómo y porqué el arte puede operar y qué papel toma, como base, tangente, propaganda o resistencia.

Contribuyen: Lara Almarcegui, Amy Balkin, James Boyle, Fernando Bryce, Susan Canney, Chu Yun, Jimmie Durham & Maria Thereza Alves, Feng Yuan, Futurefarmers & Free Soil, Tue Greenfort, Thomas Hirschhorn, Katie Holten, Jiang Jun, Jeffrey Kastner, Winona LaDuke, Learning Group, Lucy R. Lippard, Wangari Maathai, Jonathan Meuser, Jason Middlebrook, Nils Norman, Ted Nordhaus, David Naguib Pellow & Lisa Sun-Hee Park, PLATFORM, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Paul Schmelzer, Peter Schmelzer, Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus, Cameron Sinclair, Stephanie Smith, Bruce Sterling, Kirstine Roepstorff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Toop, Vitamin Creative Space, Insa Winkler, the Worldwatch Institute y Zheng Guogu. En la sección de 'artist plates' escriben: Claire Bishop sobre Francis Alÿs, Gemma Lloyd sobre Donna Conlon, Max Andrews sobre Henrik Håkansson e Insa Winkler, Diana Baldon sobre Marine Hugonnier, Mariana Cánepa Luna sobre Alfredo Jaar, Zoë Gray sobre Brian Jungen, Lars Bang Larsen sobre Aleksandra Mir, Richard Flood sobre Richard Prince, Alejandra Aguado sobre Tomás Saraceno, Francesco Manacorda sobre Simon Starling. – Para leer sus biografías clica aquí

Si quieres adquirir una copia, dirígete a la página del distribuidor Cornerhouse Publications, Amazon.co.uk o a las siguientes librerías:

En Londres: ICA Bookshop; Camden Arts Centre; Foyles Main Shop & Riverside; Walter König, Serpentine Gallery; Artwords Bookshop; Tate Modern
En New York: New Museum Bookstore
En Barcelona: Laie
En Madrid: Naos Libros
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