David Wood ART VITA
Employment W.Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University 2010- Prof of Art /Affiliated Faculty, Department of Art, Vanderbilt 2009-
Books Authored Time after Time (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007) Ch. 12, “Art as Event” – on Smithson, Duchamps, Newman
Books under Construction
* Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Ethics, eds. Matthias Fritsch, Phillipe Lynes and David Wood, Fordham, 2017 [forthcoming]
* Reinhabiting the Earth, Fordham, 2017 (forthcoming)
* Deep Time, Fordham, 2017 (forthcoming)
* Things at the Edge of the World An investigation of those things in the world that themselves contain, project or sustain worlds of their own [including works of art] – a fractal ontology.
* Thinking Art: The Philosophical Significance of Seven Artists: Joseph Beuys, Alberto Burri, Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Smithson
Interviews
Interview with Joe Gelonesi, Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Radio Network, broadcast May 2015.
Interview with Robert Schutt, Orbis (Vanderbilt), April 2015.
“Problems with Progress”‚ Interview with Zan Boag, New Philosophy magazine, #6, Sydney (Australia), Nov 2014, pp.78-85
Interview with Michelle Jones, Tennessean (Nashville) on “Heliotrope” (Floating sculpture installed at Lake Watauga, Parthenon, Centennial Park, Nashville). Sunday Sept 12, 2010.
Interview with KQED TV (on Land Art installation “Spiral Resonance Field”), Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2009
‘Art for the Imagination’, interview by William McClure, Journal of Visual Culture, London, Fall 2002
‘The Art of Time’, interview by John Dalton, Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2002
Interview with Michelle Jones, Tennessean (Nashville) on “Heliotrope” (Floating sculpture installed at Lake Watauga, Parthenon, Centennial Park, Nashville). Sept 12, 2010.
Interview with KQED TV (on Land Art installation “Spiral Resonance Field”), Albuquerque, NM, Aug, 2009
Published (and forthcoming) Papers
“IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites” in Place and Phenomenology, ed. Janet Donohoe, Fordham University Press, 2017
“Is Art Dead? Can Art Save the Earth?, Environmental Aesthetics. Crossing Divides and Breaking Ground”, ed. Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz, Fordham, (in press 2015).
"Touched by Touching", in Carnal Hermeneutics, ed. Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor, Fordham University Press, 2014
“Derrida Vert”, in The Oxford Literary Review 36.2 (2014): 319-322
“Comment ne pas manger--Deconstruction and Humanism”, trans into Italian, Animot journal, Turin, Italy 2014
“Humanimality: The Silence of the Animal”, PhiloSophia, 3, #2, 2013
“My Place in the Sun”, in Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, eds. Forrest Clingerman et al., New York: Fordham, 2013
“If a cat could talk,” London: Aeon, July 2013 http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/can-we-ever-really-know-a-cat/
“The Lure of the Writer’s Cabin”, New York Times (Opinionator), December 2012 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/the-lure-of-the- writers-cabin/?_r=0
“Toxicity and Transcendence: Two Faces of the Human”, Angelaki 16, no.4, 2011 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2011.641343 #preview
“Mirror Refractions in the Yucatan (After Robert Smithson)”, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2010 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/jvap.9.1.69_1?journalCo de=rjvp20#preview
“Thinking Landscape Art: Unfolding Angel Spiral”, in Antje Kapust / Bernhard Waldenfels eds., Kunst. Bild. Wahrnehmung. Blick: Merleau-Ponty zum Hundertsten, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2008.
“A walk in the woods”, Sculpture Journal, volume 15.1 [2006]
“Distance in Dwelling”, Cogito (Journal of Art and Philosophy), Istanbul, Turkish trans by Refik Guremen, 2006
“Connections in Time: Notes on the Kuusiluoto Island Chronopod”, Framework: The Finnish Art Review, Helsinki, 2004
"Time-shelters: an essay in the poetics of time", in Time and the Instant, ed. Robin Durie and David Webb, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000
"Escher and Calvino: Thinking Eccentrically about Time" in Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, ed. A.E.Benjamin, (London: Academy Editions, 1989).
"Art-Language", Studio International, Jan 1973.
Selection of Papers Delivered
“Some Notes on Art”, Emory Conference, Oct 2016
“Disconcerting Experience”, Lecture, Oregon State University at Corvallis, Jan 2015
Public Lecture, “Mission to Earth: Land Art, IntraTerrestrials and Other Attempts at Reinhabiting the Earth through Art”, Arts Center, University of Oregon, January 2015
“The Art of the Im-possible”, Mellon Environments & Societies Colloquium, UC Davis, May 2013
“The Art of the Possible,” IAEP, November 2012
'Art and Resistance’, Nature in Art and Culture conference, University of Helsinki, 2012
“Violence and the Image”, University of Bochum/Cubus Art Conference, 2012
“Art and Truth” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 2011
“Reinhabiting the Earth”, British Society for Phenomenology, Annual Conference, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, April, 2011
“What is Eco-Phenomenology?” IAEP session, APA, Boston, Dec 2010
*“Art and Truth” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 2011 “Is Art Dead? (Or could it Save the Earth?)” Honors Program Distinguished Speaker, De Paul, Chicago, May 2010
Coastal Installation, Keynote Conference Speaker, “Can Art Save the Earth?” & photographic presentation: “Imagination Displacement Transformation: A Photographic Essay” at Thinking the World in the 21st C (Conference), Univ of Tasmania / Australian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA), Hobart, Tasmania, April/May, 2010
Installation and Lecture to Land Art and Landscape Seminar, University of Richmond, March 2010
Keynote Address at Visual Intelligence and The Sense of Art: Philosophy and Art in Conversation with Experience conference, CSU Stanislaus, Nov 2006
Keynote Address, “Liminal Philosophy: Negotiating Resistance at the Limits of Representation”, North Texas Philosophical Association Conference, UNT Denton, April 2006
“Beyond Hegel and the End of Art: Heidegger and Earth-Art”, Public lecture, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey, Jan 2004
“Art for Earthlings”, & “The Future of Thinking”, University of Helsinki, Oct 2003
"Earth Art Sky: Distance in Dwelling", SPEP 39th Annual Meeting, Penn State, Oct 2000 and Arts Faculty Research Seminar, Univ of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2000
"Experience: Folded and Unfolding", Art and Experience Conference, University of London, Nov 20 1999
“Unlocking the Image in Thought”, International Conference on Art and the Image, Tate Gallery/University of London, May 1997
"The Poetics of Time", Vanderbilt University, October 1991
"The Strange Loops of Escher and Calvino," Calvino Conference, University of Warwick, 1987
"Philosophy as Performance," University of East Anglia [1982].
Art Activity and other forms of Creative Expression
Druid Conference, 2016, (YB)
FireFlash, installation, 2015 (YB)
A Sense of Place [documentary film on my art work], Artist/Producer, dir. Robert Verheij, 2014/15.
Eternal Return, Video Installation, Goethe Institute, MatraLab, Montreal, Canada, Oct 2013
IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites, #8, ongoing series., Cappadocia, Turkey, Nov 2014
WORDSCAPE: Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay. Yellow Bird Art Farm, Vanderbilt Workshop, April 2014
IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites, on going installation series. #7 near Po Lam Zen Monastery, Lantau Island, Hong Kong April 2013
“Thinking Like a Sand Crab”, Exhibition and Keynote lecture, Stony Brook Manhattan Philosophy and the Arts Annual Conference, “Still Life”, 2012
Heliotrope IV, Arts Center of Cannon County, Woodbury, TN, 2011-2
Cheekwood HeliotropeTwinstallation: “Awakening” *(Sculpture Trail) and “Reflections” (Lower Pond), Nashville, 2011
“Awakening”, (Nov 2010 – Jan 2011) Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Building/ 25th Ave S, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Wood, wire, laser discs, solar lights, 41’ diameter, 2” thick, with inscribed poem “Awakening Words”. In three phases.
Participant in Sao Paulo (Brazil)/Vanderbilt Art exchange: Fall 2010 with funding from Vanderbilt
“Heliotrope II” (Fall 2010) Parthenon, Lake Watauga, Centennial Park, Nashville. Floating sculpture. Wood, steel, aluminum, wire, laser discs, solar lights, 40’ diameter, 40 spokes. In two phases.
“Art as ark”, Bangladesh Art Project, Dhaka, March 6-14, 2010. Water video-interviews with villagers; sculpture and photography.
Coastal Installations and photographic presentation: “Imagination Displacement Transformation: A Photographic Essay” at Thinking the World in the Twenty-First Century (Conference), University of Tasmania / Australian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA), Hobart, Tasmania, April 30th and May 1st, 2010
Installation of “Heliotrope” on Westhampton Lake, University of Richmond campus for Land Art and Landscape Seminar, University of Richmond, March 2010 http://picasaweb.google.com/111369049772123131327/Heliotrope31 52010# http://picasaweb.google.com/111369049772123131327/HeliotropeW aterInstallation#
“Weerewaa Vortex” (2009), Lake George, Canberra, Australia, 2009. 600 CDs arranged in a triple spiral in a dried-up lake bed. 250’ diameter.
“Spiral Resonance Field: Glint of Sun, Voice of Wind”( Land Art) Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM / Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM /Mountainair NM [virtual installation], July-Nov 2009. Part II was acquired by the Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), for its permanent collection. Stainless steel, iron, aluminum, PVC, nylon, wood. 300 solar lights, atop 300 undulating white PVC poles 1’-12’ high, set on laserdisc lily-pads, and arranged in a double spiral, with a pair of Aeolian harps, invitations to the wind. The whole installation was curated by LandArt New Mexico, 516Arts.
“Projected Framescapes”, Writer’s Cabin site with surreal viewing windows, 2012 (YB)
“Floating Gallery”, Natural objects find themselves unexpectedly surrounded by a gallery space, 2012 (YB)
“Mirror Refractions in the Yucatan (After Robert Smithson)”, Art/Text performance piece, The Animal Gaze conference, London Metropolitan University, Nov 2008
“Spiral Jetty Redux”, 2006 Great Salt Lake, Utah: a reworking of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
“Solar Spiral” – steel, mirrors, diameter 1280’ – New Mexico June 2009
“Mirror Refractions in the Yucatan (After Robert Smithson)”, Art/Text performance piece, The Animal Gaze conference, London Metropolitan University, Nov 2008
“Angel Spiral”, 200’ diameter, mirrors, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, 2005
Kyoto 7000 Tree-Rhizome Project: Homage to Joseph Beuys [Fall 2004]
Other activities Initiator and convener, Off the Wall – Spring series of lunchtime talks at the Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville (with Vanderbilt Faculty). 2003-5
Professional Service at Vanderbilt Dean’s Search Committee, Fine Arts Chair Spring 1998
External Examining Faculty of Art & Design [Fine Art] (Conceptual Art program) Lanchester Polytechnic, (1975-8)
Ongoing and Future projects
* Development of Yellow Bird as Gesamtkunstwerk, Art Farm and Sculpture Park.
* Intra-Terrestrials: Landing Sites (ongoing, global reach)
* Wordscape. Installation of 200+ magic words at Yellow Bird.
* Yellow School Bus. Magic space for children.