New Site_Specific Resident Artist in Town!
Site_Specific, champions of land art in South Africa, is pleased to announce that Erica Lüttich, the second Site_Specific Resident Artist for 2013, will be starting her residency on 21 April, and complete her work by 12 May.
She will be hosted by the Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative, and her Art work, entitled Running Fences will be gracing public sites in and around Plettenberg Bay over the next three weeks.
Angus Greig of Ebenezer has started collecting black wattle poles that she will be using in four community workshops in Crags, Kwanokuthula, New Horizons and Kranshoek. Erica needs 1500 black wattle sticks to create this moving artwork.
This marks the start of Site_Specific’s International Land Art Biennale to be held in Plettenberg Bay between 10th and 17th of August 2013 when international artists will join their South African compatriots in creating unique land art installations. The names of invited artists to this year’s event will be announced at a national launch in Johannesburg in May 2013.
If you are interested to help with this process, please contact Erica at 079 123 4059. Follow her progress in on the Running Fences Artist’s Residency Facebook page.
About Site_Specific
Site_Specific Land Art Events promotes land art in Africa, facilitating communities to care for and appreciate their environment, as well as supporting and coordinating artists, environmental conservation groups and patrons.
They are a not-for-profit association of people who are passionate about site specific art which they describe as a form of communion with the land that changes one’s perceptions of given surroundings. Even after the art has been reabsorbed into nature, the memory of it persists and informs one’s interaction with the landscape. Site_Specific is dependent on the generosity of donors and the South African public for contributions.
Beacon Island Resort and Site_Specific received the coveted BASA Arts and Environment Award in 2012.
For further information please visit: www.sitespecific.org.za/