At Home and Elsewhere: Land Art Under Lockdown

June 17, 2020 Dr. James Westwater

In the tripartite online exhibition, At Home and Elsjarsewhere: Land Art Under Lockdown, graduate students, Jeremy Kunkel, Yuki Whitley and Heidi Zeniseck, take on the challenge of making work for a new advanced course, LARC 689C, Land Art: Interventions, Mediations, Meditations, in a semester during which the world turns inward and "walking the land" becomes an exercise in memory, introspection, imagination and extraordinary resourcefulness and creativity.
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Designed land and land art are subjective constructs of landscape. Artist Roger Ackling describes landscape as, "an outer reflection of an inner state," and Roger Deakin writes, "To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed." white chair and hoseLandscape is agnostic, complicated, contested, embodied, entangled, experiential, a genre, immersive, interpreted, a medium, a metaphor, place, political, sensorial, shaped, sublime, a theme. It can be threatened or threatening, tracked or trackless, unbounded or walled. It is also uncanny. 

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Jeremy Kunkel's virtual exhibition

Yuki Whitley's virtual exhibition

Yuki Whitley's virtual exhibition on Instagram
Heidi Zenisek's virtual exhibition