Site_Specific International Land Art Biennale launched in Plettenberg Bay in 2011. Land Art as a genre is particularly suited to merging perceptions regarding culture and nature, connecting community and conservation to the benefit of both human inhabitants and the environment. It’s about design that is sdensitive to these many issues.
Between 10 & 17 August 2013 Site_Specific is staging it’s second International Land Art Biennale event in Plettenberg Bay. Influential land artists from South Africa and abroad are invited, along with other national and local artists. Programmes and workshops facilitate a collaborative process of sharing and the exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences. In this way the practice of land art, and the conversation around issues of land, environment, and the dilemma’s faced in our century and on our continent are highlighted.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
The Land Art Biennale event includes public programmes for visitors and participants to engage in during the week of 10 – 17 August 2013. As artists are working on setting up their various land art installations, visitors will be able to observe their progress and attend public lectures and performances. Visitors can also register and participate in Site_Specific’s Public Programmes. Also visit Community Projects page for more calendar events and insights into the various community projects taking place before and during this event.
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ABOUT
Site_Specific Land Art Events promote site specific art in Africa, facilitating communities to care for and appreciate their environment, as well as supporting and co-ordinating art and environmental creators and patrons.
They are a not-for-profit association of people who are passionate about site specific art. “We describe it as a form of communion with the land that changes one’s perceptions of given surroundings. It is like being given new eyes. Even after the art has been reabsorbed into nature, the memory of it persists and informs one’s interaction with the landscape. It doesn’t demand visual literacy or education to be moved by the experience of a great land art piece. It is immediate, and enhances one’s own sense of being in the world. Land art engages in the much-needed integration of ‘culture’ and ‘nature’. Sometimes it is a celebration of the land that sustains us. Often it reminds us of the temporary nature of our shared existence.International Land Art Biennale”.
