LHI Art-Sci Symposium
LAND HERITAGE INSTITUTE
1349 Neal Road, San Antonio 78221
Between Applewhite & Pleasanton/Moursund Roads
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - REGISTER HERE!
LAND AS LAB
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
Free & Open
to the Public
LAND AS LAB continues the discourse begun at the 2009 LHI Art-Sci Symposium, THE NATURE OF PLACE: LAND ART/LAND USE. This confab will investigate artists and centers using the environment and its conditions—land, water scarcity, urban-scapes—as exploratory sites and concerns of their work. Visual and performing artists, scientists and activists engaged in interdisciplinary experiments across the country will convene in LHI’s new dormitory/meeting facility—a recently-donated portable classroom building across from the already retro-fitted dairy barn near where LHI longhorn graze.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
8:30AM Check-In PLEASE PRE-REGISTER HERE!
9AM
Lab Talk 1: Anjali Gupta, writer/editor (San Antonio, TX) + Ariel Evans Pastelegram founder/editor (Austin, TX).
9:30AM
Video: Primary and Other Remote Locations, Brett Stalbaum and Paula Poole, 3:00, 2006
www.paintersflat.net/ The Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Remote Location Utah site was documented to produce landscape paintings—assumed to be the provenance of the painter—through a data-digesting algorithm.
Keynote Address:
Arid Lands Institute @ Woodbury University/Hadley + Peter Arnold (Burbank, CA)
Water scarcity is both the history and the future of the American West. Re-thinking water use, particularly in the face of climate change, will be central to the region’s survival. The work exceeds the grasp of a single discipline, and touches all dimensions of the way people live and work. Arid Lands Institute brings people and ideas together across multiple disciplines to shape answers and envision a future in which landscapes and communities are resilient in the face of regional aridity—environmentally, culturally, and economically.
10:30AM Break
10:45-12Noon
Video: Parking Public: A Journey into the Storage of Utopia, 12:53, 2006
www.temporarytraveloffice.net Parking Public is a research and tourism project by the Temporary Travel Office attempting to contextualize changes in cities brought by public parking facilities and the role they play in shaping the urban landscape.
PLAND/Nancy Zastudil (Tres Piedras, NM)
PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa. PLAND is an experiment in living differently. Zastudil is the Taos Coordinator for ISEA2012 Alburquerque: Machine Wilderness, organized by 516 ARTS.
12-1:30PM
Vegetarian Chuckwagon Lunch ($6 cash)
12:30PM
Optional activities:
• Screening (pending permission): Matthew Buckingham (2003, 40:00) Muhheakantuck–Everything Has a Name
• Hayrides narrated by TX archeologist Dr. Alston Thoms
• Día Nacional del Maîz-9/29/11: Amanda Haas, Esperanza Center
Moving Planet San Antonio-9/24/11: Mobi Warren, 350.org
• Herbs for Healing + Plant Sale/Dr. Elizabeth de la Portilla & Don Jacinto Madrigal (San Antonio, TX)
• Quick Field Trip to an Ancient (Threatened) Persimmon Grove
1:30PM
Lab Talk 2: Anjali Gupta + Ariel Evans
2:00PM
San Antonio independent animated short film:Slick, Sabra Booth 2:00, 2011 An animated short Slick satirizes the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf Coast. The film’s narrative follows actual events, a mix of drawn paper doll characters, grease painting on glass, animated specimens, and collaged photographs give the piece a fantastical edge, paralleling Japan’s Godzilla movies.
Invasives:
Kelly Lyons, restoration ecologist/invasive species specialist (SA, TX)
Buster Graybill, artist (San Antonio, TX)
Chris Sauter, artist (Converse, TX)
3PM Break
3:15PM
Video: Flight Patterns, Aaron Koblin, 1:41, 2005
www.aaronkoblin.com Flight Patterns was developed by Aaron Koblin from Federal Aviation Association data; it displays several interpretations of aircraft flight patterns over the United States--visualized in both color and form, they create a ghostlike map of power centers.
iLAND/Jennifer Monson (Urbana, IL + New York, NY)
iLAND Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance investigates the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. iLAND, a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields.
4:00PM
Video: Map, Aram Bartholl, 2:47, 2006
www.datenform.de The artist searches for “pizza” on Google Maps, then constructs and installs a giant sculptural A to mark the nonexistent location to which Google Map points him.
M12/Kirsten Stoltz + Peter Stoltz, scientist (Yuma, CO + Denver, CO) M12 creates interdisciplinary site-based art works, research projects, and education and outreach programs. Working in the fields of sculpture, architecture, and public art and design, favoring projects that are centered in rural areas and which can be developed through dialogical and collaborative approaches. M12 projects explore community identity and the value of often under-represented rural communities and their surrounding landscapes. M12 strives to be stewards of effective local and global creative problem solving, and a community resource for evolutionary thinking and innovative communication.
5:00PM Lab Talk 3: Anjali Gupta + Ariel Evans
Conclusions & Closure
5:30PM Cold Beer @ The Corn Crib
REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE HERE!
PROGRAM DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
LHI is a smoke-free setting. The land is dry; fear of fire is great. Even the smallest spark must be guarded during these days of drought.
The 2011 LHI Art-Sci Symposium is made possible through support from the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation and the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs.
Photos by Peter Arnold, Arid Lands Institute
As a prelude to the 2011 LHI Art-Sci Symposium: LAND AS LAB, LAND HERITAGE INSTITUTE INVITES YOU TO AN LHI BENEFIT EVENT
Music by Buttercup + Projections by Arid Lands Institute
Friday, September 2nd, 8:30-10:30pm, on the banks of the San Antonio River behind the San
Antonio River Authority, $25 per person (cocktails + hors d’ouerves). Buy tkts here: