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{{Short description|American artist}}
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'''Amy Balkin''' is an American artist who studied at [[Stanford University]] and is now located in [[San Francisco]]. Her work "combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique to generate ambitious, bold, and innovative ways of conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems."<!--[http://www.peeruk.org/html/projects/balkin1.html]-->. She focuses on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.<ref>[http://www.invisible5.org/index.php?page=collaborators], ''Amy Balkin Biography description'', May 5, 2010.</ref> Ultimately, one of her long-term goals is to create a physical shared space with society.
'''Amy Balkin''' is an American artist who studied at [[Stanford University]] and is now located in [[San Francisco]]. Her work "combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique to generate ambitious, bold, and innovative ways of conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems."<!--[http://www.peeruk.org/html/projects/balkin1.html]-->. She focuses on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.<ref>http://www.invisible5.org/index.php?page=collaborators , ''Amy Balkin Biography description'', May 5, 2010.</ref> Ultimately, one of her long-term goals is to create a physical shared space with society.


[[Invisible 5|''Invisible-5'']] is an audio commentary on land use along the highway corridor between [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]].<ref>Sue Hubbard, [http://www.newstatesman.com/200612040038 "The new Romantics"], ''New Statesman'', December 4, 2006.</ref>
[[Invisible 5|''Invisible-5'']] is an audio commentary on land use along the highway corridor between [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]].<ref>[[Sue Hubbard]], [http://www.newstatesman.com/200612040038 "The new Romantics"], ''New Statesman'', December 4, 2006.</ref>


The project investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. This project was developed in collaboration with artists Kim Stringfellow and Tim Halbur, and the organizations Pond: Art, Activism, and Ideas, and Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice. The project is available to listen online or download from invisible5.org.
The project investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for [[environmental justice]] along the I-5, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. This project was developed in collaboration with artists Kim Stringfellow and Tim Halbur, and the organizations Pond: Art, Activism, and Ideas, and Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice. The project is available to listen online or download from invisible5.org.


She has also proposed a project that challenges the scope and intent of current US or international laws relating to property ownership and pollution, and which are intended to expose the limitations and ideological biases of these laws. One such project [http://www.publicsmog.org/ Public Smog]<ref>[[Joseph del Pesco]] [http://www.dotsandquotes.com/delpesco.html An interview with Amy Balkin], ''Dotes And Quotes'', 2007.</ref> involves the creation of clean air parks created by retiring emission offsets, paired with an attempt to add the Earth’s atmosphere to [[UNESCO]]’s [[World Heritage Site|World Heritage]] list. However, these ideas have art-based roots.
She has also proposed a project that challenges the scope and intent of current US or international laws relating to property ownership and pollution, and which are intended to expose the limitations and ideological biases of these laws. One such project [http://www.publicsmog.org/ Public Smog]<ref>[[Joseph del Pesco]] [http://www.dotsandquotes.com/delpesco.html An interview with Amy Balkin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420171841/http://www.dotsandquotes.com/delpesco.html |date=2008-04-20 }}, ''Dotes And Quotes'', 2007.</ref> involves the creation of clean air parks created by retiring emission offsets, paired with an attempt to add the Earth's atmosphere to [[UNESCO]]’s [[World Heritage Site|World Heritage]] list. However, these ideas have art-based roots.


== Projects ==
== Projects ==


[[Public Smog]] is a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale. Built through financial, legal, or political activities, Public Smog is subject to prevailing winds and the long-range transport of aerosols and gases. When built through the economic mechanism of emissions trading, the park opens above the region where offsets are purchased and withheld from use. Public Smog first opened briefly to the public during 2004 above California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, and is now open over the [[European Union]] through 2008.<ref>http://symposiumc6.com/speakers/balkin/ [[Symposiumc6.com]]</ref>
[[Public Smog]] is a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale. Built through financial, legal, or political activities, Public Smog is subject to prevailing winds and the long-range transport of aerosols and gases. When built through the economic mechanism of emissions trading, the park opens above the region where offsets are purchased and withheld from use. ''Public Smog'' first opened briefly to the public during 2004 above California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, and is now open over the [[European Union]] through 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Symposium C6 » Amy Balkin |url=http://symposiumc6.com/speakers/balkin/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924202447/http://symposiumc6.com/speakers/balkin/ |archivedate=2009-09-24 |accessdate=2009-11-16}} [[Symposiumc6.com]]</ref>


Balkin's project [http://thisisthepublicdomain.org This is the Public Domain] is an ongoing attempt to create a permanent international commons from a parcel of land purchased by the artist in Southern California. Thus far, the group has purchased {{convert|2.5|acre|m2}} of land in [[Tehachapi, California]]. Sharing of this land will be initiated when a juridical solution for public handover is found.<ref>[http://thisisthepublicdomain.org Balkin, Amy]</ref>
Balkin's project [[This is the Public Domain]] is an ongoing attempt to create a permanent international commons from a parcel of land purchased by the artist in Southern California. Thus far, the group has purchased {{convert|2.5|acre|m2}} of land in [[Tehachapi, California]]. Sharing of this land will be initiated when a juridical solution for public handover is found.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome. |url=http://thisisthepublicdomain.org/ |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=thisisthepublicdomain.org}}</ref>


Her recent works include a public reading, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers" (2008), and a series of large-format rubbings of architectural signage of San Francisco-area entities implicated in war-related activities and illegal domestic surveillance, "Sell Us Your Liberty, Or We’ll Subcontract Your Death" (2008).<ref>[http://risingtideconference.org/speakers.html Rising Tide Conference], ''Stanford University'', April 18th, 2009.</ref>
Her recent works include a public reading, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers" (2008), and a series of large-format rubbings of architectural signage of San Francisco-area entities implicated in war-related activities and illegal domestic surveillance, "Sell Us Your Liberty, Or We’ll Subcontract Your Death" (2008).<ref>[http://risingtideconference.org/speakers.html Rising Tide Conference] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502024837/http://risingtideconference.org/speakers.html |date=May 2, 2010 }}, ''Stanford University'', April 18th, 2009.</ref>


She has collaborated with her husband [[Josh On]]<ref>[http://www.artificial.dk/articles/joshon.htm ''Interview with Josh On'' - September 24, 2004]</ref> on the [[Greenpeace]] project Exxonsecrets.org <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/jun/24/internet.onlinesupplement Web watch], ''The Guardian'', June 24, 2004.</ref> and was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2007.
She has collaborated with her husband [[Josh On]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=September 21th 2004: Interview with Josh On |url=http://www.artificial.dk/articles/joshon.htm |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=www.artificial.dk}}</ref> on the [[Greenpeace]] project Exxonsecrets.org<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dodson |first=Sean |date=2004-06-24 |title=Web watch |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/jun/24/internet.onlinesupplement |access-date=2023-12-20 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2007.


Amy Balkin joined [[Cape Farewell, Greenland|Cape Farewell]] on the 2007 Art/Science expedition. Taking almost three weeks, the expedition crossed the north Atlantic to the extreme frontline of climate change, then sailed south to explore East Greenland's Blosseville Coast.<ref>[http://www.capefarewell.com/art/artists/amy-balkin.html Cape Farewell]</ref>
Amy Balkin joined [[Cape Farewell, Greenland|Cape Farewell]] on the 2007 Art/Science expedition. Taking almost three weeks, the expedition crossed the north Atlantic to the extreme frontline of climate change, then sailed south to explore East Greenland's Blosseville Coast.<ref>[http://www.capefarewell.com/art/artists/amy-balkin.html Cape Farewell]</ref>


Amy Balkin's collaborative project ''A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting'' (2012–ongoing) manifests through an open call for items from places around the world that may disappear due to climate change.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sinkingandmelting.org/ |title=Home |website=sinkingandmelting.org}}</ref> Initiated in 2012, the collection now holds approximately 200 objects from individuals from over 18 countries and regions, such as Antarctica, Mexico, and Cape Verde. Ranging from tools and utensils to printed ephemera, Balkin et al.’s archive creates a physical, political, and economic portrait of the effects of [[sea level rise|rising sea levels]], coastal erosion, and desertification through object stories. The project humanizes these concepts, typically dispersed through abstract facts and figures, by displaying them in visual form. This deeply personal index of localized environmental destruction also creates a globalized account of shared experiences and speaks to the income inequality and political exclusion of individuals in places most likely to disappear. The work was shown in the exhibition "Radical Landscapes" at di Rosa in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dirosaart.org/radical-landscapes/#9|title = Radical Landscapes &#124; di Rosa|date = January 2016}}</ref>
==Quotations==

*"The domain of art risks not only being a tolerated exception, but an active site for recuperation of political activity. Like a 'public park' within a totalized system of property, the domain of art could be argued to act as a built-in pressure valve that displaces political action from real recuperation to self-limited, and so tolerated, symbolized recuperation instead. But socially engaged work doesn't exist in a vacuum, and is presented in a social and political context. And the domain of art has always been a vital place for the creation of critical counter-narratives in the context of political engagement."

*"As political and cultural awareness of global warming grows, the reading, meaning and value of the Cape Farewell voyages will also develop. I hope to return from the trip with an enhanced understanding of the Arctic as a system, and with an increased ability to speak to the impacts of climate change."<ref>[http://www.capefarewell.com/art/artists/amy-balkin.html]</ref>


==References==
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==Additional References==
==Additional References==
* T.J. Demos, "Art After Nature: The Post-Natural Condition," ''Artforum'' (April 2012), 191–97.
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/10/society.guardiansocietysupplement Down to a fine art] by [[Anna Minton]], ''The Guardian'', January 10, 2007.
* [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jan/10/society.guardiansocietysupplement Down to a fine art] by [[Anna Minton]], ''The Guardian'', January 10, 2007.
* [http://www.waltermcbean.com/werememberthesun/artists/balkin.shtml Walter and McBean Gallery at SFAI]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081123075128/http://www.waltermcbean.com/werememberthesun/artists/balkin.shtml Walter and McBean Gallery at SFAI]
* [http://www.publicsmog.org Public Smog]
* [http://www.publicsmog.org Public Smog]
* [http://www.thisisthepublicdomain.org This is the Public Domain]
* [http://www.thisisthepublicdomain.org This is the Public Domain]
* [http://tomorrowmorning.net/ Tomorrow Morning]
* [http://tomorrowmorning.net/ Tomorrow Morning]
* [http://soex.org/person/132.html Southern Exposure: Amy Balkin]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091105120932/http://soex.org/person/132.html Southern Exposure: Amy Balkin]
* [http://www.invisible5.org/ Invisible 5]
* [http://www.invisible5.org/ Invisible 5]
* [http://d13.documenta.de/#/participants/participants/amy-balkin/ documenta (13) participating artist bio]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150306230259/http://d13.documenta.de/#/participants/participants/amy-balkin/#/participants/participants/amy-balkin/ documenta (13) participating artist bio]

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Amy Balkin
Born
San Francisco
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
Known forConceptual Art
MovementPublic Art Conceptual Art
AwardsThe Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

Amy Balkin is an American artist who studied at Stanford University and is now located in San Francisco. Her work "combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique to generate ambitious, bold, and innovative ways of conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems.". She focuses on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.[1] Ultimately, one of her long-term goals is to create a physical shared space with society.

Invisible-5 is an audio commentary on land use along the highway corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles.[2]

The project investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. This project was developed in collaboration with artists Kim Stringfellow and Tim Halbur, and the organizations Pond: Art, Activism, and Ideas, and Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice. The project is available to listen online or download from invisible5.org.

She has also proposed a project that challenges the scope and intent of current US or international laws relating to property ownership and pollution, and which are intended to expose the limitations and ideological biases of these laws. One such project Public Smog[3] involves the creation of clean air parks created by retiring emission offsets, paired with an attempt to add the Earth's atmosphere to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. However, these ideas have art-based roots.

Projects[edit]

Public Smog is a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale. Built through financial, legal, or political activities, Public Smog is subject to prevailing winds and the long-range transport of aerosols and gases. When built through the economic mechanism of emissions trading, the park opens above the region where offsets are purchased and withheld from use. Public Smog first opened briefly to the public during 2004 above California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, and is now open over the European Union through 2008.[4]

Balkin's project This is the Public Domain is an ongoing attempt to create a permanent international commons from a parcel of land purchased by the artist in Southern California. Thus far, the group has purchased 2.5 acres (10,000 m2) of land in Tehachapi, California. Sharing of this land will be initiated when a juridical solution for public handover is found.[5]

Her recent works include a public reading, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers" (2008), and a series of large-format rubbings of architectural signage of San Francisco-area entities implicated in war-related activities and illegal domestic surveillance, "Sell Us Your Liberty, Or We’ll Subcontract Your Death" (2008).[6]

She has collaborated with her husband Josh On[7] on the Greenpeace project Exxonsecrets.org[8] and was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2007.

Amy Balkin joined Cape Farewell on the 2007 Art/Science expedition. Taking almost three weeks, the expedition crossed the north Atlantic to the extreme frontline of climate change, then sailed south to explore East Greenland's Blosseville Coast.[9]

Amy Balkin's collaborative project A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (2012–ongoing) manifests through an open call for items from places around the world that may disappear due to climate change.[10] Initiated in 2012, the collection now holds approximately 200 objects from individuals from over 18 countries and regions, such as Antarctica, Mexico, and Cape Verde. Ranging from tools and utensils to printed ephemera, Balkin et al.’s archive creates a physical, political, and economic portrait of the effects of rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and desertification through object stories. The project humanizes these concepts, typically dispersed through abstract facts and figures, by displaying them in visual form. This deeply personal index of localized environmental destruction also creates a globalized account of shared experiences and speaks to the income inequality and political exclusion of individuals in places most likely to disappear. The work was shown in the exhibition "Radical Landscapes" at di Rosa in 2016.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.invisible5.org/index.php?page=collaborators , Amy Balkin Biography description, May 5, 2010.
  2. ^ Sue Hubbard, "The new Romantics", New Statesman, December 4, 2006.
  3. ^ Joseph del Pesco An interview with Amy Balkin Archived 2008-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, Dotes And Quotes, 2007.
  4. ^ "Symposium C6 » Amy Balkin". Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-11-16. Symposiumc6.com
  5. ^ "Welcome". thisisthepublicdomain.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  6. ^ Rising Tide Conference Archived May 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Stanford University, April 18th, 2009.
  7. ^ "September 21th 2004: Interview with Josh On". www.artificial.dk. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  8. ^ Dodson, Sean (2004-06-24). "Web watch". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  9. ^ Cape Farewell
  10. ^ "Home". sinkingandmelting.org.
  11. ^ "Radical Landscapes | di Rosa". January 2016.

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