LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative) is a project that shows how innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, culture, and the expanding role of technology in art can help shape the aesthetic impact of renewable energy on our constructed and natural environments. This essay explains their solution-based social practice and energy art. I am also adding the link to their website if you are interested ;), where you can see more of their macro installations in the landscape. 

(Essay)

Public Art of the Sustainable City (2010)     

Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian

LAGI Founding Co-Directors

(Blog)

http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/     

(Website)

LAGI (Lahttp://www.landartgenerator.org/project.htmlnd Art Generator Initiative)   

NEUKOM VIVARIUM BY MARK DION (2008)

"Process Art can survive for much longer."

Mark Dion calls attention to a lengthier process in Neukom Vvarium a hybrid work of sculpture, architecture, and horticultutre (=the art or practice of garden cultivation and management) installed at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. Dion removed a sixty foot long section of a fallen hemlock log from its forest ecosystem and placed it in a custom designed greenhouse, where it continuous to decay while supporting various life forms (bacteria, fungi, lichen, insects, plants).

IRISH HUNGER MEMORIAL BY BRIAN TOLLE 

installed Battery Park, NYC, 2002

This artwork focuses on the great Hunger of 1845-52, when the population of Ireland decreased from 8million to 5 million. Part of the Ireland population flee the famine emigrating to America thhrough Ellis Island, a site visible from the upper portions of the Tolle's memorial. To symbolize the suffering, the loss and the flight by many to America, Tolle replicated a chunk of the Irish countryside on a half-acre site. The plants and shrubs that are incorporated into the artwork are native County Mayo. There's even a stone cottage like those inhabited by Irish farming families during the early 1800's.

SHIBBOLETH BY DORIS SALCEDO (2007)
Unilever commission

For this piece Salcedo and her team excavated the space bellow merging her art with the architecture of the Turbine Hall. Shibboleth as a result represented the result of a natural cataclysm, as if an earthquake or massive explosion had split apart the Turbine Hall floor. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrQ6CCOk4c

Homemade video

Land Art Generator InitiativeLAGI

http://www.landartgenerator.org/project.html

The goal of LAGI is to accelerate the transition to post-carbon economies by providing models of renewable energy infrastructure that add value to public space, inspire, and educate—while providing equitable power to thousands of homes around the world.

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