Through the Grapevine

[Below, from CLUI, whose director Matthew Coolidge was a featured CCAI "Nevada Neighbor" in March. CCAI's fall programs will focus on art and ecology. Stay tuned for announcements!]



The Center for Land Use Interpretation

9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
1.310.839.5722

Thursday August 12
Through the Grapevine Bus Tour

"Join us for a tour of a place meant to be passed through - a tour, essentially, of a highway. We will visit contemporary and historic lines of conveyance through the transitional geography between Central and Southern California - the epic Tejon Pass region.

The tour is part of the CLUI exhibit Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern California's Great Pass, on display through August 29.

The bus will depart from the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location at 9 AM and return by 7 PM.

Tour ticket price is $30. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, August 3rd @ 12 noon PST, and must be purchased online."

[Text and graphic from CLUI press mailing. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

CLUI Presentation at the Carson City Library!

Carson City Library [map]
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City
ph. 775-887-2244

Wednesday, March 31 | 7 pm

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series

"Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America" Illustrated Talk by Matthew Coolidge

Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative's ongoing series of illustrated public talks, will host Matthew Coolidge, director of CLUI – The Center for Land Use Interpretation.

From Nevada’s location on the western edge of the Intermountain West in the center of the Great Basin, environmental issues speak to the heart of the state. A look at these issues through work created by scholars, environmental activists, and artists will provide new information and perspective on our delicate high desert environment.

Southern California-based CLUI has an experimental field station near Wendover in northeastern Nevada. Founded in 1994, CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history.

Mr. Coolidge is the author and editor of several books, including "Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with CLUI", and "The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to the Nation's Nuclear Proving Ground."

press release

[Text from CCAI press release. Image courtesy of CLUI. Caption: "Center for Land Use Interpretation Field Session at the Desert Research Station. Credit: CLUI Archive. 2001."]

Lucy Raven | China Town

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Center for Art + Environment

Lucy Raven: China Town

"Begun while working as an artist-in-residence at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Lucy Raven's video China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in East Ely, Nevada to the Yangtze River in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted, refined, and spun into wire and used to electrify the nation. The video consists of an animated sequence created from more than 7,000 photographs, along with ambient sound that Raven recorded along her journey across the globe. China Town offers a stunning view of the relationship between the industrial landscapes of two countries, whose economies are intimately linked due to China’s increased demand for resources and electricity."

Through May 9

NB: Matt Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation Director, will be part of CCAI's March 2010 Nevada Neighbors project, and will give a public talk on Wednesday, March 31 at 7 pm at the Carson City Library.

[Text from Museum website. Graphic from Mass MoCA web site. Click on image to enlarge.]

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

February 07, 2009 - April 19, 2009
Center for Art + Environment LAB
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline:: A Center for Land Use Interpretation Project

"The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues. In August 2008, CLUI dispatched a team of artists and scholars along the 800-mile pipeline that transports oil southwards from Prudhoe Bay, to the terminal at Valdez. This photographic journey along examines how its unique construction draws a line across what would otherwise be considered wilderness. The Trans-Atlantic Pipeline compromises and defines what is labeled nature and culture."

[text and photography from NMA Web site. Caption: "Matthew Coolidge, The Trans Alaska Pipeline(detail), 2008, photograph. Photo courtesy of Matthew Coolidge."]

[NB: CLUI Director Matthew Coolidge will be a featured visitor in CCAI's 2009-2010 edition of Nevada Neighbors.]