Tuesday Texts: Chapter Three
We are delighted to announce that throughout February we will be publishing a third chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or Smithson.
Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.
Both Holt and Smithson opened new ways of thinking about what art might be, and where it might be found. Their ideas resonate through artistic and cultural production of the present, developing innovative ways of exploring our relationship with the planet and expanding the limits of artistic practice. The Scholarly Text Program expands these legacies by commissioning and publishing new writing.
The single artworks range from landmark earthworks and texts to lesser known drawings, moving image works, and rarely seen two-dimensional works. Focused as a tool for researchers at all stages, the Scholarly Text Program will publish two essays on each work, presenting differing opinions and approaches and making links to topics that range from geology to ecology, poetry, architecture, public art, sculpture, drawing, film, philosophy, site, and all the stops between.
Chapter Three of Tuesday Texts publishes the following essays:
Julian Myers-Szupinska, "Everything and Nothing: On Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76)"
Ron Graziani, "Britannia Beach Project"
Gretchen Ernster Henderson, "Here Before & Where Beyond: Dark Star Park"
James Boaden, "Nancy Holt, Underscan (1974)"
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Click on the following links to read the essays in previous Chapters of our Tuesday Text series: Chapter One; Chapter Two.
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973-76)
Great Basin Desert, Utah
Concrete, steel, earth
Overall dimensions: 9 ft. 2-1/2 in. x 86 ft. x 53 ft. (2.8 x 26.2 x 16.2 m); length on the diagonal: 86 ft. (26.2 m)
Image scanned by Julian Myers-Szupinska from Nancy Holt's article Sun Tunnels, 1977 in Artforum, April 1977, Vol. 15, No. 8
Photograph: Nancy Holt
Artwork: ©Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation, Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Magazine Layout: Artforum
