Friday 24 October
14.00–19.00
Land Mark
Led by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, with guest contributors

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Land Mark (detail) 2003 © Image courtesy of Allora & Calzadilla

Why are certain areas of land designated for preservation, while others are used for military testing? Whose interests are served when these decisions are made, and can we speak of an ethics of land use?

The day will function as an intense, unorthodox think tank in response to Land Mark, Allora and Calzadilla’s project for Tate Modern’s Common Wealth exhibition. Their installation investigates the disputed US Naval Bomb Testing Range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and the economies of reclamation and reconstruction played out across such wounded soil.

Berlin-based artist Sean Snyder and Matthew Coolidge from the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles will join Allora & Calzadilla to present talks, screenings, and discussions, plus tactical and cognitive engagement with the simulated terrain in the gallery. Debate will focus on the geographical, political, historical and theoretical issues that inform the changing status of military land use.

A project on the Center For Land Use Interpretation, organised by students on the Royal College of Art MA Curating Contemporary Art, will take place 16-26 October with support from the Monique Beudert Fund. For further information visit www.cca.rca.ac.uk/clui.

Tate Modern McAulay B and Common Wealth exhibition
£10 (£8 concessions) includes entry to exhibition

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