From the LAND/ART website: "This summer and fall, a group of New Mexico arts organizations have joined together to present LAND/ART, which will explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book. Focusing on "environmental" or "land" art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live.
Historically, New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue. In the 1960s and '70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks, including such major projects as Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field and Charles Ross' Star Axis in New Mexico, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed under the more general term "environmental art" which is a highly diverse and vital feature of contemporary art around the world. This new genre recognizes that what we now think of as the "environment" has broadened to include the global community, the microscopic world, and cyber space as well as wilderness, the urban environment and suburban sprawl. It includes ecological activism, reclamation and remediation projects, and ephemeral site-specific performances, among many other approaches, all of which have in common art and artists that respond to features of our natural environment."
More info: landartnm.org
By William Shakespeare
Staring Tricklock Company and special guests
Directed by: Kate Weiss of the University of Alberta
Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts
November 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 27-28 and December 3-5 at 8:00 PM
November 8, 15, 22, 29 and December 6 at 2:00 PM
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com
November 19, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents SUN CIRCLE, OSKER MERRILL
SUN CIRCLE
PERSONNEL: GREG DAVIS, ZACH WALLACE
SOUNDS: ECSTATIC HIGH VOLUME DRONES, LONG FORM TRANCE MUSICS AND PEACE NOISE.
LABELS: LICHEN, MUSIC FELLOWSHIP, IMPORTANT
OSKER MERRILL
Osker Merrill is a New Mexico native born on the checkerboard side of the Navajo Nation reservation. Having moved often though currently living in Albuquerque for several years now studying psychology and religious studies to piece together what drives people and for introspective research as well. In addition interested as well in the role media has to play upon the psyche of a person. Whether it be a favorite book, movie or even commercial for a certain type of cereal the media plays a large part in ones life no matter how sheltered one can aim towards. This is a study on life’s ritualistic order and playing the role of creator, sustainer, and destroyer.
Brought forth in the last quarter of the twentieth century under a waxing gibbous moon and observing life as if an alien from another world and sometimes going back to that divergent dimension Osker Merrill has found himself piecing together life from its entrails using recordings. Having captured them on micro cassettes, digital recorders, phones or any other available means they are then woven together in a web. This web is the piecing together of current events, long deep-seated regrets, mythos from yesteryear, and sometimes cotton candy rearranging to bring forth the chaos and calm behind it all.
By Jonathan Larson
Directed by Kathleen Clawson
Musical direction by Paul Roth
Rodey Theatre, Center of Fine Arts
November 20, 21, 27, 28, December 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 PM
November 22, 29 and December 6 at 2:00 PM
Special performance on December 1, World AIDS Day at 7:30 PM
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com
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