An exploration of sculpture’s relationship to landscape and the body as viewed through the lens of the artist-traveler.
Our workshop will examine the notion of travel through such examples as Baudelaire’s flâneur, the Situationists’ theory of Psychogeography, and artists ranging from Robert Smithson and Richard Long, to Francis Alys and Olaf Breuning. We will conduct a series of exercises, expeditions, and missions including the creation of livable shelter-sculptures to inhabit on a weekend camping trip in the Scottish Highlands. Bedouin tents, arctic research stations, camper vans, Hoovervilles, hunting blinds, and interplanetary spacecraft serve as our inspirational points of departure...
Participants:
Matt King (Instructor), Andrew Cobb, Zoe Golden, Rebecca Henderson, Elise Isom, Mitchell Petersen, Cameron Robinson, Andrew Schmidt, Emily Stokes
The Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop
Virginia Commonwealth University
Glasgow, Scotland, June 22nd - July 23rd, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Flags from St. Giles
These flags hanging at St. Giles in Edinburgh make me think we need flags for our tents. Or, we need to make our tents into flags.
Wow!
ReplyDeleteWe should definitely have flags! Though I doubt any of us could get close to those...