Post by deanna on Feb 5, 2015 11:22:27 GMT -7
UNM Art & Ecology and Central Features Presents: Sarah Kanouse Visiting Artist Presentation
3:00 PM Tuesday, February 10th UNM Mitchell Hall Room 220
UNM Art & Ecology and Central Features Show Up Show Down are pleased to host Sarah Kanouse, an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, with particular interest given to the environmental and cultural effects of military activities. Her award-winning, feature-length film, Around Crab Orchard, addressed how the politics of conservation and environmental justice are imbricated with military and penal economies deeply in an American wildlife refuge. She is one half of the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation service, a 'wishful1 government agency addressing the cultural and ecological impacts of nuclear militarism, and a core member of Compass, an art collaborative currently staging a series of performative hearings into the intergenerational and inter-species impacts of industrial agriculture on regional and global systems.
Her work has been screened or exhibited at Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Cooper Union, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and in numerous festivals and spaces at such institutions as CUNY Graduate Center, George Mason University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin. She has written extensively about performative and site-based contemporary art practices in Art Journal, Acme, Leonardo, Parallax and in the forthcoming volume Critical Landscapes (University of California Press). An Associate Professor of Art at the University of Iowa, she teaches courses in video/time-based media and art and ecology.
Show Up Show Down stages world-changing art through a series of visiting artist presentations, brief photography exhibitions, and an ever-growing archive. It features exceptional artists who use the built environment – everything from houses to freeways to nature preserves, along with the man-made systems that created them – to impact contemporary life in a variety of beneficial ways.
Show Up Show Down 2015 schedule of opening events at Central Features, 6-8PM, artist's talks 7PM February 6: Sarah Kanouse February 13: Kenneth Baily, Design Studio for Social Intervention February 20: Matthew Fluharty (Art of the Rural), The American Bottom February 27: Lucy Lippard, DOUBLETAKE (including book signing with Lucy Lippard, with support from Bookworks)
3:00 PM Tuesday, February 10th UNM Mitchell Hall Room 220
UNM Art & Ecology and Central Features Show Up Show Down are pleased to host Sarah Kanouse, an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, with particular interest given to the environmental and cultural effects of military activities. Her award-winning, feature-length film, Around Crab Orchard, addressed how the politics of conservation and environmental justice are imbricated with military and penal economies deeply in an American wildlife refuge. She is one half of the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation service, a 'wishful1 government agency addressing the cultural and ecological impacts of nuclear militarism, and a core member of Compass, an art collaborative currently staging a series of performative hearings into the intergenerational and inter-species impacts of industrial agriculture on regional and global systems.
Her work has been screened or exhibited at Documenta 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Cooper Union, the Smart Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and in numerous festivals and spaces at such institutions as CUNY Graduate Center, George Mason University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin. She has written extensively about performative and site-based contemporary art practices in Art Journal, Acme, Leonardo, Parallax and in the forthcoming volume Critical Landscapes (University of California Press). An Associate Professor of Art at the University of Iowa, she teaches courses in video/time-based media and art and ecology.
Show Up Show Down stages world-changing art through a series of visiting artist presentations, brief photography exhibitions, and an ever-growing archive. It features exceptional artists who use the built environment – everything from houses to freeways to nature preserves, along with the man-made systems that created them – to impact contemporary life in a variety of beneficial ways.
Show Up Show Down 2015 schedule of opening events at Central Features, 6-8PM, artist's talks 7PM February 6: Sarah Kanouse February 13: Kenneth Baily, Design Studio for Social Intervention February 20: Matthew Fluharty (Art of the Rural), The American Bottom February 27: Lucy Lippard, DOUBLETAKE (including book signing with Lucy Lippard, with support from Bookworks)