Seminar week
Organizer: Chair Prof. Ursprung
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative, both produced in 1970, are art historical milestones, marking not only the intersection between art, architecture, and landscape, but also directing the view to their own context. On our journey from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, via Monument Valley, we will ask how military, industrial, an economic expansion are related to aesthetic experiences of landscape. How can a region marked by the displacement of Native Americans, major industrial projects such as the transcontinental railway, the Kennecott copper mine and the Hoover Dam, by the testing ground for nuclear weapons, gambling and religious conservatism remain an emblem of "nature" and of "freedom"?
Sabine Sarwa
Organizer: Chair Prof. Ursprung
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Michael Heizer's Double Negative, both produced in 1970, are art historical milestones, marking not only the intersection between art, architecture, and landscape, but also directing the view to their own context. On our journey from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, via Monument Valley, we will ask how military, industrial, an economic expansion are related to aesthetic experiences of landscape. How can a region marked by the displacement of Native Americans, major industrial projects such as the transcontinental railway, the Kennecott copper mine and the Hoover Dam, by the testing ground for nuclear weapons, gambling and religious conservatism remain an emblem of "nature" and of "freedom"?
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Berit SeidelSabine Sarwa