Roundtable
“Reclamation of Post-Industrial Territories: Lands Arts of the American West and the Incubo Atacama Lab”
Friday, April 10, 2009 -- 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street
New York City
Free admission
This panel discusses transdisciplinary fieldwork in art, landscape architecture and industrial reclamation, focusing on the field methods of "Land Arts of the American West" and the "Incubo Atacama Lab" in Chile. Joel Towers, Dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, frames the panel by discussing the epistemological significance of the post-industrial landscape within the field of Urban Ecology.
Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, directed by Chris Taylor, is a field program that investigates the intersection of geomorphology and human construction beginning with the land and extending through the complex social and ecological processes that produce contemporary landscapes. The Incubo Atacama Lab project began when the curatorial exchange organization Incubo invited Taylor to bring the working methods of Land Arts to Chile.
Participants:
+ Incubo, Santiago, Santiago, Chile Josefina Guilisasti, artist and co-founder Bárbara Palomino, artist Gonzalo Pedraza, art historian
+ Chris Taylor, Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University
+ Joel Towers, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Ecology, Parsons The New School for Design
+ Flora Vilches, Curator, Museo Arqueológico Gustavo Le Paige, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Moderator: Carin Kuoni, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
The event is organized by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, on the occasion of the exhibition “Into the Open: Positioning Practice,” the Venice Biennale U.S. Pavilion Exhibit at Parsons.
