fluxscape
2024–
Site-specific project
Site-specific project
Installed in the barn as a projection on a plastic tarp, the video shows the sun and the clouds on a day in September as seen on the floor upstairs in the hayloft. A hole in the wall becomes an aperture and creates a camera obscura. A time drift. It reminds me of Roland Barthes writing in Camera Lucida on photography’s closeness to theater by way of death. Simultaneously living and dead, there and not there. “Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead.”
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Newledo Exploration Hub, in collaboration with Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), is launching fluxscape, a year-long show that investigates shifting flows of time and land through Newledo’s 10-acre northern pasture, known as the "North-10."
The “North-10 pasture” is in an interim state of transformation, with a future plan for major environmental restoration of the site and its coastal watershed.
The site is a physical manifestation of our conflicted landscapes and state of uncertainty due to climate change, environmental degradation and human impact. The land provided grazing pastures for hundreds of dairy cows over the past 120 years. It has a mix of native and invasive plants, some in both categories useful to humans. It has Beaver Creek, which formerly meandered through the flat land but was trenched years ago to make more room for dairy cattle to graze. The creek is connected to the ocean and has some salmon but in its current state it neither provides ideal salmon or beaver habitat. It has a constructed pond home to various migrating bird flocks. It's a major flood plain in the winter, with a portion on the national wetland registry. The field wraps around a hillside of a neighboring tree farm clear cut in 2018.
fluxscape, an innovative art exhibition, flows outside traditional indoor spaces and timeframes of artistic presentation and invites visitors to encounter contemporary artworks created in conversation with dynamic forces and shifting ecologies of a unique coastal landscape-in-transition.
fluxscape features installations and performances by Pacific Northwest and international artists whose works engage visitors with hidden dimensions of this land’s pasts, presents, and futures. Artists include Angelina Almukhametova, Jill R. Baker, Karin Bolender/R.A.W., Agnese Cebere, Nicole Cousino, Dann Disciglio, Malin Lindmark Vrijman/Kultivator, Jacob Mitas, and Moa Vrijman.
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Newledo Exploration Hub, in collaboration with Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), is launching fluxscape, a year-long show that investigates shifting flows of time and land through Newledo’s 10-acre northern pasture, known as the "North-10."
The “North-10 pasture” is in an interim state of transformation, with a future plan for major environmental restoration of the site and its coastal watershed.
The site is a physical manifestation of our conflicted landscapes and state of uncertainty due to climate change, environmental degradation and human impact. The land provided grazing pastures for hundreds of dairy cows over the past 120 years. It has a mix of native and invasive plants, some in both categories useful to humans. It has Beaver Creek, which formerly meandered through the flat land but was trenched years ago to make more room for dairy cattle to graze. The creek is connected to the ocean and has some salmon but in its current state it neither provides ideal salmon or beaver habitat. It has a constructed pond home to various migrating bird flocks. It's a major flood plain in the winter, with a portion on the national wetland registry. The field wraps around a hillside of a neighboring tree farm clear cut in 2018.
fluxscape, an innovative art exhibition, flows outside traditional indoor spaces and timeframes of artistic presentation and invites visitors to encounter contemporary artworks created in conversation with dynamic forces and shifting ecologies of a unique coastal landscape-in-transition.
fluxscape features installations and performances by Pacific Northwest and international artists whose works engage visitors with hidden dimensions of this land’s pasts, presents, and futures. Artists include Angelina Almukhametova, Jill R. Baker, Karin Bolender/R.A.W., Agnese Cebere, Nicole Cousino, Dann Disciglio, Malin Lindmark Vrijman/Kultivator, Jacob Mitas, and Moa Vrijman.
