social environmentalism - alex norman - 2015

where land art meets social practice art

Martin Hill

SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTALISM

FOUNDATIONS

ROBERT SMITHSONspiral jetty

1970

lightning field1974

WALTER DE MARIA

MICHAEL HEIZERdouble negative 1970

CHARACTERISTICS

ENVIRONMENTAL EPHEMERAL EXPERIENTIAL

ANDY GOLDSWORTHYrain shadow

1993

“working with the land is to work alongside its people.”-Goldsworthy

“the social nature of landscape has a profound effect upon my work”

“It’s about rebirth and optimism, its experiential and it nurtures the desire to walk towards the light...It evokes powerful reactions in people.” --Arthur Little, Manager of the Liss Ard estate

JAMES TURELLIrish Sky Garden

Roden Crater - Turell’s work in progress

Turell’s Skyspace at Rice University

RA PAULETTE“CAVEDIGGER”

“Art doesn’t attempt to force CHANGE through direct action but to CATALYZE it by affecting the emotional basis from which change can occur.” -Paulette

VIK MUNIZ

Jardim Gramacho series

“People at the margins, including artists, we don’t have power, but we have freedom.” -Vik Muniz

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