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Becoming Juniper - Performing Landscape as Artistic Research

This text is available for open access online at http://nivel.teak.fi The text has been previously published in German, as “‘Becoming Juniper’. Landschaft performen als künstlerische Forschung” in Daniela Hahn & Erika Fischer-Lichte (eds.) Ökologie und die Künste. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015, p. 141-157. This text consists of two parts, with an introduction and an epilogue. In the first part I discuss the notion of landscape briefly. In the second part I describe an example of a practice of performing landscape and discuss some of its aspects that might be useful for understanding or developing related practices. Finally, as an epilogue, I take up the question of how to speak of the environment.

Shades of Sublime, a design for landscape experiences as an instrument in the making of meaning

Shades of Sublime, 2018

Historically, the idea of the sublime is often associated with grand and astounding natural scenery. This thesis investigates a twenty-first century idea of the sublime that includes dissonant phenomena such as ecosystem disruption and climate change. The subject of the sublime is symbolic of how unprepared the general audience is for dealing with the inherent disorders that arise when confronted with ‘negative’ aesthetic engagement. Landscape design, however, can mediate this experience to facilitate a creative act of imagination and identification with contemporary sublime phenomena. This in turn provides an opportunity to speculate on a future landscape architectural repertoire.

Towards a New Landscape Aesthetic

Paper presented at the Spectral Landscapes: Explorations of the English Eerie event, Oxford, 2015. The full web article can be found on the Landscapism blog at: http://landscapism.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/towards-new-landscape-aesthetic.html

Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape

Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape, 2015

Catalogue for the exhibition "Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape," on view at the Joel and Lila Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Jan. 15 to March 6, 2015. The exhibition featured 24 contemporary, international artists, artists’ collectives and game developers who examine, challenge, and re-define the concept of landscape while simultaneously drawing attention to humanity’s hubristic attempts to relate to, preserve, and manage the natural environment. Anti-Grand included 33 works of art, with video, installation, video games, and traditional two- and three-dimensional work.