Spatial Praxis

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After two weeks engaging the pastoral landscape of Mildred’s Lane and the Romantic landscape of the Catskills, this final Social Saturday of Landscape Experience turned to urban landscapes. Rodney Gilbert, Damon Rich, and Jae Shin – a diverse group of practitioners whose work encompasses art, design, and planning – discussed the ways artistic practice and, moreover, artistic communities navigate the cityscape and address the political economy of the built environment, sharing their ongoing work in Newark, NJ, where Gilbert oversees the Newark Murals Program, where Shin recently developed the exhibition project Plan It Newark! and where Rich, formerly the former Planning Director and Chief Urban Designer for the city, had just completed his largest installation of public work to date in Newark Riverfront Park.

The event was preceded by tours of the property and a ceremony to celebrate the session’s fellows led by J. Morgan Puett. The event segued into a meal and closing night celebrations, which included the culminating act of the session: A History of Dicks on the Landscape, a performance, installation, and curricular intervention created by the Landscape Experience fellows – Cari Freno, Claire Haik, Danielle A. Allinice, Eric M. Diehl, Jennifer Brook, Katherine Bickmore, Michelle Kelly Rogers, Rachel L. Cohn, Rebecca Conroy, Ruth Patir, Vered Engelhard, and Misha Wyllie.