A collaborative project in deep mapping at Stanford University Humanities Center 2000 -
Clifford McLucas - the artist
Dorian Llywelyn - the theologian
Michael Shanks - the archaeologist
Sites
- the volume – Monte Polizzo
- the surface – Hafod
- the line – The San Andreas Fault of California
Works
- Original research into the three sites
- Three performed lectures
- A large graphic work – a map on a wall
- An artist’s journal - a book in a room
- Twenty five taped discussions with guests
- A report on the project in the form of a visual primer - sadly delayed by the death of Cliff McLucas
- A software project - collaborative deep mapping - this has evolved into Traumwerk
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
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