'This Land' (Latitude: 35.082 / Longitude: -118.2785).
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http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/artworks/project-1
San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin has been developing a series of research-based projects questioning human interaction with the public domain and its impact. Her cross-disciplinary practice looks at private and public land ownership and use, pointing also to problems of waste management and atmospheric pollution, using legal tools from property and copyright law and other sectors’ legal strategies.
This is the Public Domain is an ongoing project exploring the possibility of the creation of a land for global public use near the Mojave Desert in California (Latitude: 35.082 / Longitude: -118.2785). For this project Amy Balkin purchased2.5 acres of land in 2003 with the aim of transferring the property’s ownership to a global ‘everyone’ without any restrictions. For this purpose, the artist has been looking into the possibilities offered by real property and copyright laws in order to make this land the property of everyone.
http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/artworks/project-1
http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/artworks/project-1
San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin has been developing a series of research-based projects questioning human interaction with the public domain and its impact. Her cross-disciplinary practice looks at private and public land ownership and use, pointing also to problems of waste management and atmospheric pollution, using legal tools from property and copyright law and other sectors’ legal strategies.
This is the Public Domain is an ongoing project exploring the possibility of the creation of a land for global public use near the Mojave Desert in California (Latitude: 35.082 / Longitude: -118.2785). For this project Amy Balkin purchased2.5 acres of land in 2003 with the aim of transferring the property’s ownership to a global ‘everyone’ without any restrictions. For this purpose, the artist has been looking into the possibilities offered by real property and copyright laws in order to make this land the property of everyone.
http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/artworks/project-1
