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A R T & T H E
A N T H R O P O C E N E
S M 3 1 3 8 T H E C R E A T I V E C I T Y & U R B A N C R I T I Q U E
F R E D R I C K L A W O L M S T E A D
THE CULTURE OF NATURE
“In the broadest sense of the term, landscape is a way of seeing the world and imagining
our relationship to nature. It is something we think, do, and make as a social collective.”
-Alexander Wilson
F R E D R I C K L A W O L M S T E A D
PASTORAL PAINTING & LANDSCAPE DESIGN
LYNNE COHEN
LYNNE COHEN
MARK RUWEDEL, THE ITALIAN NAVIGATOR HAS SAFELY LANDED
MARK RUWEDEL, THE ICE AGE, LAKE MANLY, ANCIENT FOOTPATH FROM NEVARES SPRINGS TO THE LAKE, 1996
MARK RUWEDEL, CROSSING #7, 2005
ROBERT ADAMS – NEW DEVELOPMENT ON A FORMER CITRUS-GROWING ESTATE, HIGHLAND, CALIFORNIA, FROM “LOS ANGELES SPRING” 1986
“At that time a lot of the world was oddly obscene to photography – that is it couldn’t
be portrayed… There seemed to be a horror of facing the environment that we’d
made for ourselves. I felt, “okay, this is the hand that you’ve dealt me – these are
the fruits of mid-period American capitalism that you’ve given us. Well, look at
them.” - LEWIS BALTZ
P U L L & L I F E O F O B J E C T S ( 2 0 1 3 )
Cornelia Parker
MARY MATTINGLY
M A R Y M A T T I N G L Y
Cornelia Parker
The Furies (Titian Again), 2013 Floating a Boulder, 2012
M A R Y M A T T I N G L Y
Cornelia Parker
The Damned (Titian Again), 2013
P R O D U C T I O N L I N E -
M A D E I N C H I N A & M A D E I N T A I W A N
P O - C H I H H U A N G
Huang’s work Production Line – Made
in China & Made in Taiwan is based on
his familiar essay Blue Skin: Mama’s
Story, relating the trajectory of his
mother’s working life, from farm to
factory and back to farm again, and
encompassing the evolution of the
Taiwanese economy, including the
offshoring of the clothing industry.
By linking two sub-projects, two places
and two exhibitions, Production Line –
Made in China & Made in Taiwan
follows a circuitous industrial route of
migration, from the Taipei Biennial to
the Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial and
back to Taipei again, producing a blue
denim shirt co-designed by the artist
and a manufacturer. The work thus
focuses attention on history, culture,
the economy, and relations of
production and consumption.
M A X
L I B O I R O NLiboiron’s academic work focuses on
how invisible, harmful, emerging
phenomena such as “slow” disasters
and toxicants from plastics become
apparent in science and activism, and
how these methods of representation
relate to action.
SEA GLOBES (2013-2014)
“This series of sea globes are genuine New York City souvenirs. The plastics came from the Hudson
River in south Brooklyn, and the rocks are made of bituminous coal from in a landfill that closed in the
1930s at Deadhorse Bay, which now resides underwater at high tide, also in south Brooklyn. The snails
are from a well-known taxidermy shop in SoHo. Overall, the sea globes are accurate representations of
the waterfront environment in New York City today.”
MAX LIBOIRON
E N V I R O N M E N T A L M O N I T O R I N G D I A R A M A S
M A X L I B O I R O N
C O A S T M I N I N G ( 2 0 1 4 )
“In the installation Coast Mining,
Taiwanese artist Wu Chuan-lun
exhibits a selection of objects he
found at the beach that look for all
the world like rocks, but are actually
plastics or industrial byproducts that
blur the boundary between natural
and artificial.
The objects remind the viewer that
humanity has largely lost its direct
relationship to the earth and the
materials of nature, so much so
that we can't always tell the
difference.
This is why Bourriaud calls the
exhibition "a tribute to the coactivity
among humans and animals, plants
and objects"; it is a reminder to deal
gently with nature - and not just to
the art crowd.”
C H U A N - L U N W U
C O A S T M I N I N G ( 2 0 1 4 )C H U A N - L U N W U
W A T E RI V A N H O E R E S E V O I R , L O S A N G E L E S
In 2008, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dumped
400,000 black plastic balls into the the Ivanhoe Resevoir to block out
the sunlight to protect drinking water.
I V A N H O E R E S E V O I R , L O S A N G E L E S
I N T O
E T E R N I T Y
M I C H A E L M A D S E N ( 2 0 1 0 )
MEGACITIES
M I C H A E L G L A W O G G E R ( 1 9 9 8 )