ABSTRACT

There are many similarities and important crossovers between my field of visual art and that of landscape architecture. Writing from within the art world, and from my last fifteen years of extensive international exhibition practice as an artist, filmmaker, writer and researcher within the contemporary arts, my relationship to landscape architecture is not so broad, but I have in several of my installations engaged landscape architects either for advice or in cooperation on how to solve a particular project. Furthermore, the idea of landscape and, in particular, that of the garden, has been central to many of my works (Figure 5.1). My paper here, then, is not based on comprehensive knowledge of landscape architecture but has at its core my thoughts about the tangents and relations between visual art and landscape architecture and it is in particular trying to relate experiences within visual arts that can be thought to be useful in the practice of landscape architecture.