Talk with William L. Fox

“The Invention of the Vertical: Changing Land into Landscape”

On Friday October 28th, at 5pm, EDHEA proposes a talk with the writer William L. Fox as part of the MAPS - Master of Arts in Public Spheres program in partnership with the Villa Ruffieux artists' residence Villa Ruffieux.

William L. Fox

William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His many nonfiction works rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments. He is director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Among his recent books is Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments (2019) and he is now dedicating a book to the Alps.

Fox was born in San Diego and attended Claremont McKenna College. He has edited several literary magazines and presses, among them the West Coast Poetry Review; worked as consulting editor for university presses; and directed the poetry program at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Fox has published poems, articles, reviews, and essays in more than a hundred magazines and written fourteen nonfiction books exploring art, cognition and landscape. In 2001–2002 he spent two-and-a-half months in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, at the Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Program. He has been a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence and received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

Center for Art + Environment

The Center for Art + Environment is an internationally recognized research center that supports the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments. Housed at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Center is home to a focused research library with archive collections from over 1,500 artists and organizations working on all seven continents. The Center has commissioned several highprofile artworks, including Helen and Newton Harrison’s climate change project, Sierra Nevada : An Adaptation (2011); Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s Las Vegas public art installation, Seven Magic Mountains (2016); and Trevor Paglen’s non-functional satellite sculpture, Orbital Reflector (2018). Among the Center’s significant archive collections are documents, sketches, and models related to artworks by Kim Abeles, Lita Albuquerque, Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg, Walter De Maria, Helen and Newton Harrison, Michael Heizer, and Ugo Rondinone. Significant holdings from organizations and individuals include Burning Man, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Cape Farewell, and the Land Arts of the American West. The Center is also home to the Great Basin Native Artists Archive and Directory.

Rendezvous

Friday, October 28, 4 pm, Villa Ruffieux (Montée du Château 26, Sierre)
Free entrance
The meeting will be held in English.