Exploring James Turrell's Roden Crafter and Quaker Meeting House | Art21
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring James Turrell, from the "Spirituality" episode in Season 1 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Spirituality" premiered in September 2001 on PBS.
From his Quaker Meeting House to his Roden Crater project, James Turrell has devoted his life to capturing the ethereal properties of light and its powers to evoke transcendence and the sublime.
James Turrell was born in 1943 in Los Angeles and currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti....
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Executive Producer: Susan Dowling. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Production Coordinator: Laura Recht. Researcher: Quinn Latimer & Wesley Miller. Director: Deborah Shaffer. Editor: Kate Taverna. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom, Ken Kobland, Joel Shapiro, & Dyanna Taylor. Additional Photography: Chip Nusbaum & Anita Sieff. Assistant Camera: Ulli Bonnekamp, John Griffiths, Glen Piegari, Kipjaz Savoie, & Ben Wolf. Sound: Ray Day, John Fintel, Alan Sawyer, Scott Szabo, J.T. Takagi, & Eric Williams. Gaffer/Grip: Steve Carrillo, Kent Eanes, Dennis Hollyfield, Greg Szabo, & Lieven Van Hulle. Production Assistant: Mark Chevarria, Anya Dehr-Turrell, Chris Dowling, Heather Glass, Melissa Morgan, & Erin Wile. Animation Stand Photographer: Marcos Levy & City Lights. Assistant Avid Editor: Heather Burak & Matt Prinzig.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
Major underwriting for Season 1 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by Robert Lehman Foundation, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Allen Foundation for the Arts, The Broad Art Foundation, The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Bagley Wright Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and The Foundation-to-Life.
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Incredible video, Art21. Looking forward to seeing your next upload from you. I tapped the thumbs up icon on your content. Keep up the wonderful work! Your exploration of the intersection between light and space is truly captivating. How do you envision the relationship between light and our emotional experiences in such immersive environments evolving in the future?
I was standing in front of one of his works in a German museum.
As I reached out my hand into the yellow void, a guard shouted: "Der Kunst nicht berühren!"
They did not agree the light is kinda untouchable...
Crater💖 What a beautiful place💖
So interesting! Thank you💖
Nice!!!
🌌Thank you ! It's stunning!
I've experimented immersion in Light by Turrell in Palais des Papes Avignon in 2000!
Brilliant.
Still waiting for that crater to be open 😂
Why 18.6 years instead of once or twice a year? edit: the full cycle of the moon is 18.6 years, so this would be the shortest time it repeats itself.
Classical liberalism is great on paper and in theory but is nothing but pain in practice
I think this is the definition of pretentious. The entitlement is egregious and omnipresent. Not the art in itself, necessarily, but the continued hagiography of late-20th century artists, such as Turrell, without any critical points made whatsoever. Yes, it is a very pretty hole in a ceiling. But at what cost? The ridiculous arrogance is astonishing. Native activists fight to this day for land rights. Landscape artists like Turrell or Michael Heizer can only exist due to colonialism and exploitation. Not a single person of color in this entire video, just dude ranchers and people dressing up as dude ranchers. Their ability, as white men of a certain generation, to privatize these public spaces and use natural landscapes as their media for their own art is almost a crime against humanity. Additionally, the whole premise is flawed. Turrell, as a quaker, seeks to express "inner light" by irreparably damaging sacred lands that have existed for millions of years. He assumes humanity will upkeep this installation long past his death; which is unlikely, so ultimately, he does little more than ruin a geologic wonder for personal gain, which is antithetical to the quaker ethos. Does it create aesthetically sublime pieces of visual art? Yes. Is it predicated upon (and uphold) systems of oppression? Also yes.
Just another anti white racist rant
"continued hagiography" a bit dramatic considering it's a 13 minute video on ONE of his works.
- Signed a Navajo citizen
Holy yap is crazy