This is the Blog for New Ground. The 2007 cycle is looks at the intersections between image body and landscape for artists working with technology from dance, photography, architecture, geography, and other allied fields. Work completed can include performances, art installations or written analysis.
This blog will emerge from the theories and practices of a group of artists concerned with issues of landscape, possibilities of performance, and the re-appropriation of technological toolkits.
We begin by looking to the situationists and psychogeographers of 1950s-60s Paris and Amsterdam for inspiration into the practice of critical engagement with lived spaces and for creative strategies for interdisciplinary play. We will follow this line of inquiry deep into Yi-Fu Tuan's Topophilia and Foucault's Heterotopias, through the interactive and participatory Happenings of Alan Kaprow, and on into the improvisational practices of site-specific dancers, performative photographers, and utopian architects. What follows are our responses to readings and to each other.
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