Principal Investigator
Prof. Rebecca Uchill, Architecture
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2017
Department/Lab/Center:
Architecture
Landscape Experience is a Fall, 2016 course that considers the range of ways in which the concept of “Landscape” has developed to describe an array of topographies and art practices in the contemporary United States. The project will support a related summer field trip excursion to the American Southwest, to visit major sites of Land Art, national parks, Native American reservations, and other complex “landscapes” of pilgrimage, preservation, and cultural embattlement. The course will invite guest speakers from a variety of disciplines; in addition, the List Visual Arts Center is currently discussing hosting a public event during which students will present reports on their experiences on this field trip, as an introduction to a panel on the preservation of Land Art works.