Land Art
- Date of creation : 1969
- Country : Germany
- Artist - Author : Gerry Schum
Description
The broadcast (transmitted by Sender Freies Berlin/ARD, 10.40pm, 15 April 1969) begins with a studio-recorded opening that has something of the atmosphere of a vernissage. Following short speeches by Schum and Jean Leering, the director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the artists' contributions are shown with no commentary. The eight artists from different countries (Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Marinus Boezem, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Walter de Maria, Mike Heizer) co-operated closely with Schum. The filming concentrates on the works of art that are created in rural sites, and there is none of the usual TV portrayal of the artist in a ‹studio atmosphere.› The elaborate productions were shot in Europe and the USA. Schum expanded the message of the emergent Land Art movement, which avoided the conventional "studio – gallery – collector" distribution channels: “Art should no longer be made for the privacy or exclusiveness of dealers or collectors. (...) Until now artists have not succeeded in finding a modern system of communication. The only chance I see for the visual arts is the conscious deployment of television.” (Source, website, MediaArtNet)
Additional Informations
Richard Long, Walking A Straight 10 Miles Forward And Back Shooting Every Half Mile, Dartmoor, England, 20 january 1969, 16 mm, 6:03 minutes.
Barry Flanagan, A Hole in the Sea, Scheveningen, Netherlands, February 1969, 16 mm, 3:44 minutes.
Dennis Oppenheim, Timetrack Following the Time, Border Between Canada and USA, Fort Kent, March 17, 1969, Canada 2 p.m. / USA 3 p.m., 16 mm, 2:06 minutes.
Robert Smithson, Fossil Quarry Mirror with Four Mirror Displacements, Cayuga Lake Region, New York, March 1969, 16 mm, 3:12 minutes.
Marinus Boezem, Sand Fountain, Camargue, France, January 1969, 16 mm, 4:11 minutes.
Jan Dibbets, 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, Dutch coast, February 1969, 16 mm, 7:32 minutes.
Walter De Maria, Two Lines Three Circles on the Desert, Mojave Desert, California, USA, March 1969, 16 mm, 4:46 minutes.
Michael Heizer, Coyote, Coyote Dry Lake, California, USA, March 1969, 16 mm, 4:20 minutes
Date of event and/or date of diffusion
15 Apr 1969
- Type : television broadcasting
- Date of event and/or date of diffusion : 02 Nov 1985 - 10 Nov 1985
- Editors : Ursula Wevers, Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), Dorine Mignot
- Place of production : Sender Freies Berlin (SFB)
- Contributors :