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“wanna walk under the rock?”: land art, time, and tourist passages
sides of the street, alternating with no particular pattern, skipping on this occasion the usu-
al stop at Dussman with their decent selection of books in English and wonderful sencha
tea, continuing towards Unter den Linder that appears eternally under re-construction with
each linden tree accounted for by number tags, continuing towards what used to be Deut-
sche Guggenheim Museum and is now spatially unchanged Kunsthalle where exciting, thou-
ght provoking, small exhibitions tend to happen. Today I go straight to the museum shop as
I wish to acquire a catalogue of the exhibition celebrating 20 years of Villa Aurora as a resi-
dence for Germany-based artists in Los Angeles. The publication is aptly entitled: Checkpo-
int California and its focus is an idea of passage. It seems rather befitting, this Checkpoint, to
end the particular transatlantic tourist passage in reverse. Walking under the rock. Coming
out on the other side.
References
Barthes, R. (2010). Camera lucida. Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and
Wang.
Benjamin, W. (2009). One-way Street and Other Writings. London: Penguin Books.
Benjamin, W. (1999). The Arcades Project. Cambridge: The Belknap Press.
Boettger, S. (2012). This Land Is Their Land. Art Journal 71 (4), 125–129.
Dwan, V. (2012). Changing boundaries. In Kaiser, P. and Miwon K. (eds.) Ends of the
Earth: Land Art to 1974, (pp. 93–95). New York: Prestel.
Hogan, E. (2008). Spiral Jetta. A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Hopkins, D. (2000). After Modern Art. 1945–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ingold, T. (2011). Being Alive. Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. Lon-
don: Routledge.
Kastner, J. (ed.) (2015). Land and Environmental Art. New York: Phaidon Press.
Kaiser, P. and Miwon K. (2012). Ends of the Earth and Back. In Kaiser, P. and Miwon
K. (eds.) Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, (pp. 17–35). New York: Prestel.
Levitated Mass. Considering the Contemporary Sublime in Three Acts. Notes on Met-
amodernism, December 18, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2015, http://www.metamod-
ernism.com/2013/12/18/levitated-mass/
Lippard, R. L. (2014). Undermining. A Wild ride through Land use, Politics, and Art in
the Changing West. New York: The New Press.
Lucie-Smith, E. (2004). Eco-Art, Then and Now. In Grande, J. K. Art Nature dia-
logues: interviews with environmental artists, (pp. xi–xiv). Albany: State Univer-
sity of New York Press.
Menard, A. (2014). Robert Smithson’s Environmental History. Oxford Art Journal, 37
(3), 285–304.
Perray, R. (2012). 340 grammes déplacés… during Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer.
http://obsart.blogspot.fr/2012/02/340t-340g-heizer-perray-usa-fr-280212.html, re-
trieved May 20, 2015.
Pray, D. (Director). (2014). Levitated Mass [DVD]. USA: Boulder Dash, LLC.
127
sides of the street, alternating with no particular pattern, skipping on this occasion the usu-
al stop at Dussman with their decent selection of books in English and wonderful sencha
tea, continuing towards Unter den Linder that appears eternally under re-construction with
each linden tree accounted for by number tags, continuing towards what used to be Deut-
sche Guggenheim Museum and is now spatially unchanged Kunsthalle where exciting, thou-
ght provoking, small exhibitions tend to happen. Today I go straight to the museum shop as
I wish to acquire a catalogue of the exhibition celebrating 20 years of Villa Aurora as a resi-
dence for Germany-based artists in Los Angeles. The publication is aptly entitled: Checkpo-
int California and its focus is an idea of passage. It seems rather befitting, this Checkpoint, to
end the particular transatlantic tourist passage in reverse. Walking under the rock. Coming
out on the other side.
References
Barthes, R. (2010). Camera lucida. Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and
Wang.
Benjamin, W. (2009). One-way Street and Other Writings. London: Penguin Books.
Benjamin, W. (1999). The Arcades Project. Cambridge: The Belknap Press.
Boettger, S. (2012). This Land Is Their Land. Art Journal 71 (4), 125–129.
Dwan, V. (2012). Changing boundaries. In Kaiser, P. and Miwon K. (eds.) Ends of the
Earth: Land Art to 1974, (pp. 93–95). New York: Prestel.
Hogan, E. (2008). Spiral Jetta. A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Hopkins, D. (2000). After Modern Art. 1945–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ingold, T. (2011). Being Alive. Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. Lon-
don: Routledge.
Kastner, J. (ed.) (2015). Land and Environmental Art. New York: Phaidon Press.
Kaiser, P. and Miwon K. (2012). Ends of the Earth and Back. In Kaiser, P. and Miwon
K. (eds.) Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, (pp. 17–35). New York: Prestel.
Levitated Mass. Considering the Contemporary Sublime in Three Acts. Notes on Met-
amodernism, December 18, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2015, http://www.metamod-
ernism.com/2013/12/18/levitated-mass/
Lippard, R. L. (2014). Undermining. A Wild ride through Land use, Politics, and Art in
the Changing West. New York: The New Press.
Lucie-Smith, E. (2004). Eco-Art, Then and Now. In Grande, J. K. Art Nature dia-
logues: interviews with environmental artists, (pp. xi–xiv). Albany: State Univer-
sity of New York Press.
Menard, A. (2014). Robert Smithson’s Environmental History. Oxford Art Journal, 37
(3), 285–304.
Perray, R. (2012). 340 grammes déplacés… during Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer.
http://obsart.blogspot.fr/2012/02/340t-340g-heizer-perray-usa-fr-280212.html, re-
trieved May 20, 2015.
Pray, D. (Director). (2014). Levitated Mass [DVD]. USA: Boulder Dash, LLC.
127
