LAND/ART: A Collaborative Exploration of Land-based Art in New Mexico

LAND/ART: A Collaborative Exploration of Land-based Art in New Mexico

James David Morgan

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) opened the six-month environmental art project LAND/ART on Saturday with a guided bus tour through New Mexico’s built landscapes.   Appropriately set in the American Southwest, where pioneering land-based artists created the first generation of works, LAND/ART brings together arts organizations from across the state, and explores relationships of [...]

Groundswell Talks: Rebecca Lerner, Urban Forager

Groundswell Talks: Rebecca Lerner, Urban Forager

Jesse Graves

(Milwaukee-based street artist and object maker Jesse Graves is a guest blogger for Groundswell.) Rebecca Lerner, a reporter and urban forager living in Portland Oregon, recently attempted to survive only on wild edibles she gathered in her city.  Lerner wrote about her experiences each day and included descriptions on what she ate and how to [...]

Groundswell Weekly Review: June 21 – 27, 2009

Groundswell Weekly Review: June 21 – 27, 2009

James David Morgan

No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents began June 24 in NYC. Billed as “a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art,” more than 30 art spaces from around the world will be represented.  Everyone’s talking about it, and there’s no charge at the door. Katie Holten’s Tree Museum opened along The [...]

Where We Are Now: The Aesthetics and Politics of Intimacy

Where We Are Now: The Aesthetics and Politics of Intimacy

James David Morgan

New York City’s umbrella arts and activism outfit Where We Are Now launches their online journal today, adding to their already impressive efforts a public, participatory forum for analysis.  The inaugural issue focuses on the aesthetics and politics of intimacy through essays, projects, legal cases, and interdisciplinary research by a select group of artists and [...]

City Mine(d) – Urban Interventionists Extraordinaire

City Mine(d) – Urban Interventionists Extraordinaire

James David Morgan

Belgium, London, and Barcelona host offices of the nonprofit City Mine(d), an organization that creates interventions in public spaces and supports similarly-minded people and initiatives.  With more than 70 interventions to their name, City Mine(d) is accredited, living up to their self-description as a “production house.” Several influential initiatives have come out of City Mine(d), [...]