Michael Shanks
Three
Landscapes
a
collaborative project
Stanford 2001 -
aims
To investigate ways of dealing with landscape –
in what the concept has come to stand for, in its permutations in various media
(painting, photography, poetry, performance … ), in its disciplinary field
of landscape studies (incorporating historical and cultural geography, art history,
archaeology), in its association with contemporary notions of place and identity,
in its implied cultural politics
In working across different fields and media, to generate a creative short circuit
between the artist’s studio and the academy
To pursue the critique of landscape in finding new ways of working upon people’s
relationships with environment, land, place and history
