A collaborative project in deep mapping at Stanford University Humanities Center 2000 -

Clifford McLucas - the artist

Dorian Llywelyn - the theologian

Michael Shanks - the archaeologist

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Sites

• the volume – Monte Polizzo

– an archaeological site in Sicily

• the surface – Hafod

– an eighteenth century estate in Wales

• the line – The San Andreas Fault of California

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Works

• Original research into the three sites

• Three performed lectures

• A large graphic work – a map on a wall

• An artist’s journal - a book in a room

• Three essays on Hafod, place and identity

• Twenty five taped discussions with guests

• A report on the project in the form of a visual primer - sadly delayed by the death of Cliff McLucas

• A software project - collaborative deep mapping - this has evolved into Traumwerk

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Aims

• To investigate ways of dealing with landscape – in what the concept has come to stand for, in its permutations in various media (painting, photography, poetry, performance … ), in its disciplinary field of landscape studies (incorporating historical and cultural geography, art history, archaeology), in its association with contemporary notions of place and identity, in its implied cultural politics

• In working across different fields and media, to generate a creative short circuit between the artist’s studio and the academy

• To pursue the critique of landscape in finding new ways of working upon people’s relationships with environment, land, place and history

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See also

Deep mapping

Brith Gof