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Revelatory
Landscapes presents site-specific temporary installations by five
innovative designers working in the land: ADOBE LA, Kathryn Gustafson,
Hargreaves Associates, Hood Design, and Tom Leader Studio. To add
an additional dimension, the designers worked in teams--with artists,
musicians, writers, other designers--to collaborate on the projects.
The resulting installations focus attention on the value and meaning
of a connection to the land, and acknowledge the power of each environment
as they respond to the particular characteristics of a site. The five
sites selected--in Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, and two in San Francisco--are
all in some way neglected or unnoticed, derelict or at the edge of
developed space.
To experience the exhibition it is necessary to visit the sites themselves.
With projects that uncover vestiges of a hidden history, culture,
physical peculiarity, or social structure--the stuff of collective
memory--the exhibition frames the ordinary for reconsideration and
wonder. It brings together three elements: the unique qualities of
the sites; the work produced by the interventions of the design teams;
and the heightened consciousness of the environment that comes from
experiencing the project. Each installation offers, in subtle and
memorable ways, a vision of a particular landscape, awakening a new
perspective on the world.
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Tom Leader
Coastlines
Conceptual sketch for Installation
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