Sierra Nevada, 2011 (installation view south gallery) aerial photograph, digital mapping, pastel, oil, and ink. 42 feet long x variable width
Monday, March 27, 5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: The Force Majeure: The Peninsula of Europe, The Tibetan Plateau and Sierra Nevada
Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison has worked for almost forty years with interdisciplinary teams to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. Acting as historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists, their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context.
The Harrisons, faculty of UC Santa Cruz, have recently founded the Center for Force Majeure Studies, to generate long-term research projects that address the emerging stresses of the Earth?s largest ecosystems by co-joining the processes of art-making and the Sciences within the uniquely and specifically-framed perspective of their past projects. Internationally they have presented their work in two Venice Biennales, two Sao Paolo Biennales, documenta 8 ,the Museums of Modern Art in Chicago, San Francisco, Bonn (Germany), Aachen (Germany), Toulouse (France), and Ljublijana (Slovenia), the Museum of the Revolution in Zagreb (Croatia) and at Kasteel Groeneveld in Holland. Their gallery representation has been with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts since 1974.
