Following the release of the publication Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement, Alauda Publications proudly presents the symposium ‘Rethinking Robert Smithson’, on the legacy of the artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973) and his relevance to contemporary artistic practices.
In many ways, the artistic debates prevalent in the 1970’s are recurring today: the relation between art and ecology, the position of the artist within a growing information and media society and the crisis of (neo)liberalism. Along the line of two thematic approaches related to Smithson’s practice, Art and Ecology and The Cinematic Condition, internationally renowned theorists and artists discuss topical concerns in artistic practice of the 1970s and today.
Contributors: ANN REYNOLDS (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, author of Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, 2003), T.J. DEMOS (art historian, UCL, London), SABETH BUCHMANN (Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna), IAN WHITE (curator and artist, London), NILS NORMAN (artist, London), MAJA AND REUBEN FOWKES (curators and art historians, Budapest/London), and GAIL WHITEMAN (Professor of Sustainability, Management and Climate Change, Erasmus University, Rotterdam).
Registration is required
Admittance: € 15,-
Students: € 7,50
Alauda Publications (Ingrid Commandeur) in cooperation with Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (LUICD)
Lectorate Art Theory & Practice, Royal Academy of Art (KABK); Lectorate Art & Public Space (LAPS), Gerrit Rietveld Academie
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction
Ingrid Commandeur and Anja Novak
10.15 – 10.25 Presentation of the first copy of Robert Smithson
Art in Continual Movement to Reyn van der Lugt, chairman of Land Art Contemporary
10.25 Kick off symposium
Anja Novak (day moderator)
I ART AND ECOLOGY
10.30 – 11.15 Lecture
T.J. Demos (art historian, UCL, London)
11.15 – 11.45 Lecture
Nils Norman (artist, London)
12.00 – 12.15 Statement
Gail Whiteman (Professor of Sustainability, Management and Climate Change, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
12.15 – 12.45 Discussion panel
T.J. Demos, Nils Norman, Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Moderator: Sven Lütticken
13.45 – 14.00 The Ultraperiferic
Presentation by Nils van Beek (curator SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain)
II THE CINEMATIC CONDITION
14.00 – 14.45 Lecture
Ann Reynolds (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, author of Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, 2003)
14.45 – 15.30 Lecture
Sabeth Buchmann (Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
16.00 – 16.15 Statement/performance
Trauerspiel Earthwork: Ian White (curator and artist, London)
16.15 – 16.45 Discussion panel
Ann Reynolds, Sabeth Buchmann, Ian White
Moderator: Eric C.H. de Bruyn
Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement
This book deals with the contemporary relevance of Robert Smithson’s oeuvre. His seminal Land Art work Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (Emmen, The Netherlands, 1971) is treated as a case study which opens up to a number of topics, still relevant in contemporary art: ‘Models of Spectatorship’, ‘Art and Ecology’, ‘Documentation’, ‘Museum, Media, Society’ and ‘The Cinematic’. The theoretical part is being completed with ‘A Living Archive’, which brings together for the first time a complete selection of archival material related to the work – ranging from photographs, film scripts and drawings to original manuscripts and letters – spread over different archives in the Netherlands and the US.
- Edited by Ingrid Commandeur and Trudy van Riemsdijk-Zandee
- Authors: Max Andrews, Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Stefan Heidenreich, Sven Lütticken, Anja Novak, Vivian van Saaze
- Design: Esther Krop
- ISBN: 9789081531481
- Available in bookshops or order online at alaudapublications.nl
- Partners: SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Space, Land Art Contemporary
- Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement is part of the programme Land Art Contemporary
