November 22, 2008 – February 28, 2009


Field Reports
                                                                           Documents and Strategies
                                                                           from Land Arts of the American West

                                                                           Temple Gallery is supported in part by
                                                                           the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and by
                                                                           Friends of Temple Gallery
 

A Lecture by Thaddeus Squire
December 4, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
A curator, writer, scholar, conductor, sound artist, producer and Director and Founder of Peregrine Arts, Thaddeus Squire will discuss art and place, including transferable art practice, revising historical site-specific works, and the impact of site-specific works. 

Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology:
Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
A Lecture by Matthew Coolidge
Friday, January 9, 6 PM
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Matthew Coolidge, Founder and Director of Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, will talk about the current and recent activities of CLUI, and will discuss the methodology of examining culture by describing the physical features of the landscape.
Cosponsored by Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies

A Lecture by Kate Wingert-Playdon
Monday, January 12, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Kate Wingert-Playdon is an architect with research and design areas addressing overlaps of architecture, site, and settlement. Her current work includes both research and on-site work focused on the role of community, the underlying cultural manifestation of place and the particularity of site.   

Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: Exploring Land Arts of the American West
A Lecture by Chris Taylor
Wednesday, February 4, 6 PM
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Chris Taylor is a Harvard-trained architect and the director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, a program he has developed with Bill Gilbert of the University of New Mexico since 2002.

A Lecture by Winifred Lutz
Tuesday, February 17, 6 PM
Tyler School of Art, 2001 N. 13th Street, Room B083, Philadelphia
Winifred Lutz has created major site-integrated sculptural installations and permanent public works in the United States and Europe. Lutz has been the recipient of numerous awards and her work is represented in museum and private collections nationally.

Images, top: from Hidden City, Steven Roden, “nothing but what is therein contained,” multi-media sound, visual, and performance installation, Girard College Founder’s Hall, 2008.  Bottom: Winifred Lutz, detail of Celestial Garden/invisible skyat the American Philosophical Museum, 2008.