The last Wednesday evening of the autumn sets out from contemporary art’s and literature’s interest in land art artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt and Agnes Denes. What does one see today if one returns, literally and figuratively, to these landscapes? And in what kind of terrain do contemporary art and literature navigate? An Arcadia in tatters, poisoned dystopias, or entirely new biologies? Participants: Bonniers Konsthall Director Sara Arrhenius and artist Rosa Barba.
At the turn of the 1960s, art wanted to address the greater time – the vast time spans of the universe, the earth’s geological movements, organisms’ slow evolvement and extinction. There was an expansive idea of nature as both a place and as material for art. Art was perceived as part of a greater process, involved in a greater ecology of matter, energy, time and mobile signs. What does one discover if one establishes a connection to that time’s ideas of art’s relationship to site, matter and time? From the perspective of our time’s experiences, how do contemporary art and literature continue the process initiated by Smithson’s generation of questioning the relationship between nature and culture, the artificial and the organic, art and site?
Wednesday Evening: Rediscovering new places
11 Nov at 6 pm
In English. Included in the entrance fee.