Artist Katie Paterson connected a cell phone to an Icelandic glacier: visitors to her gallery exhibition could hear the sounds of the hissing and cracking of its ice melting. In the Turning Over a New Leaf article in ART News, Steven Bode, director of the Film and Video Umbrella, is quoted: “What we’re seeing now, especially among younger artists, is this ominous idea of celebrating landscape while it’s on the verge of disappearing” (Wolff 1).
Monday, March 29, 2010
Landscape, Place, and Mediation-Ice Records
Landscape is still frequently experienced through representation and mediation, not actual experience of the place... Curator Steven Bode is quoted in a recent ART News article related to this topic: “The idea of ‘wild’ and the ‘other’ and the ‘unexplored’ is less seductive. We end up having to build a new relationship to landscape out of the portable frames of references that we all individually carry” (Wolff 2).
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