Topic
"Land Art"
In the summer semester 2021, the module Form and Design deals with Land Art, as well as its possibilities and conditions for the production of artistic works.
Site and non-site are terms coined by land art artist Robert Smithson that fundamentally question and rethink the space of the artwork and the space of the exhibition. The site for a work of art, the Site, is not chosen in a gallery space, but outside, in the open landscape. A kind of 'interior land art' is shown in the gallery space: transferred earth material, photographic and graphic presentations and the like, which form a so-called non-place of the work, theNon-Site. Site and non-site are mutually dependent: material and metaphorical entanglements are created between the site and the non-site that go beyond the boundaries of the exhibition space.
Parallels to the current situation of the pandemic can be observed here with regard to the evaluation of spaces: Indoor spaces do not meet the demands currently placed on them - certain activities are shifting to outdoor spaces - media-supported mediation determines the visibility of works and thus influences their production and reception. This year's module also sees itself involved in this dynamic.
Teaching
Christoph Meier
Fridolin Welte
Eva Sommeregger