Avec le Land Art, l’environnement urbain ou naturel devient support, lieu de création et aussi source de matériaux pour les artistes. Cette vidéo présente quelques uns des principaux représentants de ce courant artistique contemporain.
Amon Tobin & Tessa Farmer. ISAM : Control Over Nature
Pour marquer la sortie du nouvel album d’Amon Tobin, ‘ISAM’, ce pionnier de la musique électronique s’est associé à la très respectée artiste Tessa Farmer (collection Saatchi) pour une installation révolutionnaire. ‘Control Over Nature’ combine le sound design d’Amon Tobin, à travers des extraits de son nouvel album, aux sculptures typiques de Farmer, construites à partir de matériaux organiques, comme des racines, des insectes morts ou des ossements. «Nous avons beaucoup en commun Tessa et moi, avoue Amon, nous développons et réarrangeons tous les deux des éléments naturels pour aboutir à quelque chose d’imaginé tout en restant tangible. Nous explorons de nouvelles utilisations de matières familières, ou dans le cas de Tessa, de créatures familières. J’essaye de me projeter à travers toutes les sources sonores de la nature. Je les traite toutes comme une matière musicale et artistique». Website: amon-tobin-tessa-farmer
Nix+Gerber / Post-Apocalyptic World: The Drawing Room
This 8-minute mini-documentary about the work of photographer Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, Who Captures Tiny Post-Apocalyptic Worlds. An observation of art, partnership, and the creative process — seen through the lens of post-apocalyptic dioramas. Website: petapixel.com
Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey: Sculpture, photography, architecture, and biology
These disciplines intersect in Ackroyd & Harvey’s work, revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event and often reflecting urban political ecologies by highlighting the temporal nature of processes of growth and decay in sites of architectural interest as well as contemporary art galleries and museums worldwide. They are acclaimed for large-scale architectural interventions and for their work making complex photographs utilizing the pigment chlorophyll; in 2003 they grew the entire vertical interior space of a disused church in South London, the following year contributed to European Space 9th Sculpture Quadrennial in Riga, Latvia and in 2007 realised their largest temporary living public artwork FlyTower on the exterior of London’s National Theatre. In the summer of 2010 they created a new commission for Trasparenze Art for Renewable Energy, at MACRO Testaccio, Rome and M.A.D.R.E in Naples, Italy. Website: transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/
Maria Rebecca Ballestra: Journey into fragility – second step.
A project by Maria Rebecca Ballestra. Video director Luca Coclite. Supported by RAMDOM.This video was created during the second step of Journey Into Fragility, an itinerant art project conceived by the artist Maria Rebecca Ballestra , and inspired by » the « Arenzano Manifesto for the Earth and the Human Being » conceived and created by Massimo Morasso in 2001. The Manifesto’s twelve theses have inspired twelve different projects in as many countries around the world with the aim of developing an active dialogue on the environment and on the value of life on Earth. Web site: journeyintofragility.com