FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Magnesium, Joyce Wieland, Jan Dibbets
Document Summary
One of the paradigms of land art: relationship btwn rural and city. Ppl were so fascinated by this opportunity to see the exhibition that they flocked to see it. Eliasson"s work, the weather project, 2003 -> is about the weather. A boulder was excavated from the desert and dragged through a specific route, and everone came out to watch. Plays with the fact that we always talk about the weather, as a social convention/social mediation, but we"re not actually talking about the weather. The work was displayed alongside several visitor surveys that asked weather questions. Misty atmosphere; we can see the sun through a haze . People came and spelled out words on the floor with their bodies, and this gets mirrored out on the ceiling. Sits inside some tension with other characteristic of land art - Matters of concern: this work elicits a kind of response. An oldenburg container with earth and worms in the alcove.
