The UC Santa Cruz community and the general public are invited to attend a lecture with Amy Balkin, whose artistic practice includes large-scale, public, and long-term works exploring the intersections of ecology, law, and politics. This event is presenting as part of a LANDING event series. More information at landingevents.org.
ADMISSION
Free and open to the public
Parking information and directions: taps.ucsc.edu
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tue, Feb 20 - Beth Ferguson
Tue, Feb 27 - Amy Balkin
Tue, Mar 5 - Anja Ulfeldt
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amy Balkin’s projects and collaborations combine participation, action, and documentation to create large-scale, public, and long-term works exploring the intersections of ecology, law, and politics. These include marking human-altered soil sites for Technosol Library, Philadelphia essay-billboard Area of Interest, participatory climate archive A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (Balkin, et al.) and Smog Index, a photo collection of global smog experience. Recent exhibitions include Sell Us Your Liberty or We’ll Subcontract Your Death 2023 (Courtney Jaeger, Basel), Atmosphères (Tranzit/Cluj, Romania), Con los pies en la Tierra (Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), The Overview Effect (MCA Belgrade), and The Normal (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh). She lives in San Francisco. For more information on Amy Balkin’s work, visit amybalkin.com.