A number of CLUI exhibits are getting some mileage
on them, travelling to other institutions to be put on public
display.
Vacation: Dauphin Island was shown at the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County, in the winter of 2007, as part
of a program about habitats. Vacation: Dauphin Island was displayed
originally in an electronic form at the CLUI Los Angeles, in
2006, and was printed out and framed for presentation at the
Museum. Following exhibition there, it will travel elsewhere.
In October, 2006, images from the Center’s Ground Up: Photographs
of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles exhibition appeared
in an group show called “Land Sakes Alive” at California State
University, Northridge, along with Ken and Gabrielle Adelman’s
Coastal Records Project (which was featured at the CLUI in 2004).
In 2005, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture,
Preservation and Planning showed a number of CLUI exhibits on
their walls, including Supermodel, which depicts and describes
the three largest hydraulic engineering landscape models built
by the Army Corps in the USA (the San Francisco Bay Model, the
Chesapeake Bay Model, and the Mississippi River Model). The department
also displayed a printed version of Emergency State: First Responder
and Law Enforcement Training Architecture in a gallery at the
university. In 2004, the Princeton School of Architecture exhibited
the Center’s Formations of Erasure: Earthworks and Entropy in
a hallway. That exhibit was also shown in the Sonoma County Museum
in 2003.
Curators have bought or borrowed images from the Center’s archives
for use in their own exhibits, as a sort of raw material, sometimes
adding curious vectors that reflect and absorb meanings from
other works. In February 2006, several CLUI Photo Archive images
were included in an exhibit called “Skirting the Line” at DePauw
University, in Indiana. In 2005 and 2006, CLUI images were included
in a number of exhibits at commercial art galleries, including
an exhibition called “Interstate” at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery,
in New York City. |
Though the Center is happy to provide
existing exhibits to other institutions whenever time and resources
permit, it is perhaps most compelling when the exhibits find
places that are related to their content in a direct way, and
help to get people out to explore their environment. For example,
Back to the Bay: An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the
San Francisco Bay has recently been installed in a dramatic location
on the shores of the Bay itself. Originally commissioned by and
shown in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,
in 2001, Back to the Bay is now in the control tower building
at the former Alameda Naval Air Station (one of dozens of sites
depicted and described in the exhibit) - a building that overlooks
the contaminated no-mans-land at the tip of the island, with
the Bay, the Port of Oakland, the Bay Bridge, and the skyline
of San Francisco visible beyond.
|
