Pressly Forum: Joshua Shannon, “Learning from Time: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels 1973-1976”
Pressly Forum: Joshua Shannon, “Learning from Time: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels 1973-1976”
Please join us Wednesday, February 4th for our first Pressly Forum of the spring semester, as we welcome Professor Joshua Shannon, who will draw from his upcoming book for a talk entitled "Learning from Time: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels 1973-1976."
"This talk considers art that helps us to think on the long timescales necessary for grasping our relationship to climate change. I will focus especially on Nancy Holt’s gigantic sculpture Sun Tunnels, installed in the Utah desert in 1976, which consists of four concrete culverts oriented to the sun’s paths over the site on the summer and winter solstices. An account of a pilgrimage to the work recontextualizes our everyday experiences within astronomical time, dramatizing the fact that warming of the last century has been a calamitous blip in the history of our planet. The talk is taken from chapter five of my forthcoming book, How and Why to Look at Art in the Time of Climate Change: Seven Lessons from Modern Art (University of California Press, forthcoming, spring 2027). "
The Pressly Forum offers members of Department faculty and selected speakers to give a talk to members of the Department (faculty, staff, students) in an effort to create bonds of intellectual and collegial community. The forum is the brainchild of Professor Emeritus William L. Pressly, after whom the forum now is named. A light lunch will be served at 11:30.
Please join us Wednesday, February 4th for our first Pressly Forum of the spring semester, as we welcome Professor Joshua Shannon, who will draw from his upcoming book for a talk entitled "Learning from Time: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels 1973-1976."
"This talk considers art that helps us to think on the long timescales necessary for grasping our relationship to climate change. I will focus especially on Nancy Holt’s gigantic sculpture Sun Tunnels, installed in the Utah desert in 1976, which consists of four concrete culverts oriented to the sun’s paths over the site on the summer and winter solstices. An account of a pilgrimage to the work recontextualizes our everyday experiences within astronomical time, dramatizing the fact that warming of the last century has been a calamitous blip in the history of our planet. The talk is taken from chapter five of my forthcoming book, How and Why to Look at Art in the Time of Climate Change: Seven Lessons from Modern Art (University of California Press, forthcoming, spring 2027). "
The Pressly Forum offers members of Department faculty and selected speakers to give a talk to members of the Department (faculty, staff, students) in an effort to create bonds of intellectual and collegial community. The forum is the brainchild of Professor Emeritus William L. Pressly, after whom the forum now is named. A light lunch will be served at 11:30.
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