This paper explores various methods of integrating art into the landscape. It is recognized that the landscape is an important location of human experience. Art has the capacity to enhance our understanding of the world as it is concerned with heightening one's perceptions. Thus, it is important that art be integrated into the landscape to illuminate the relationship between humans and the material world. A literature review is conducted in order to determine methods of integrating art with the landscape. First, precedents of art in the landscape, and art and landscape architectural theory, are researched to identify criteria of engaging landscape experience. Second, a typology of differing modes of integrating art and landscape architecture is drawn out of the literature review. In response to the research, a site is chosen and designed according to the types identified. The designs provide a model of various modes of integrating art with the landscape and allow the theory to be tested and evaluated. The conclusion is that there is no right way of integrating art into the environment, but that in certain situations one type may be more appropriate than another. It is recognized that planning for art in the landscape is extremely important to ensuring integration between artwork and landscape. Perhaps then, the typology identified in this paper is best used by public art planners in the pre-development stage. By planning for art in the landscape proactively, there is less opportunity for landscape and artwork to be autonomous and objectified. To be sure, when art is integrated with the landscape the experience of place is enriched, and as a result, the human experience is enhanced.

This thesis is concerned with placing 'public art' within the broader modernist spatialisation of social relations. The research takes place around two related enquiries. The first emerges from questions raised by the art critic Rosalyn Deutsche in regard to the proposition that public art functions as both a profession and technology that attempts to pattern space 'so that docile and useful bodies are created by and deployed within it'. Following such questions, this thesis seeks to scrutinise the ways in which discourses on public art might also operate in enabling, maintaining or even disrupting everyday practices and socio-spatial relations. Secondly, as a foray into methodologies of public art research, the thesis considers Foucauldian 'governmentality' approaches in terms of what these might have to offer an investigation of public art. / Thesis (PhD )--University of South Australia, 2008.

Tributaries are geographic fingers of water moving across the landscape making connections with a main water source. As a title for my Master of Fine Arts research paper this metaphorically refers to the political, social and cultural streams which are expressed through my public artworks. It is also a poetic play on notions of paying tribute. This research examines the process of collaboration and cross-cultural arts practice and the relationship between a public artwork, the site and the audience. Four diverse yet interrelated public art projects are presented for my Master of Fine Arts degree. This research investigates the conceptual links between the four projects and the current discourse of cross-cultural collaborations. Although my art practice varies in location, materials, forms and approach, generally it is focussed around sculpture and installation and includes temporary and permanent public artworks. Two of the projects discussed took place in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, the other two took place in Vietnam. This research discusses the advantages, disadvantages and challenges in choosing to work collaboratively and questions the relationship of the author to the work and the importance of the process in creating an artwork. It also explores notions of hierarchy and power relationships that occur between artists from within the same culture and between artists from different cultures. Exploring the connections between public art and specific communities/sites has expanded my research into related notions of homes, homelessness and displacement. My approach to public sculpture is deliberately anti-monumental. This takes into account the relationship of scale within a public artwork: including the relationship of the work to the human body and to the surrounding environment I examine how contemporary public art can serve as a form of tribute to historic events and people of the past. My poetic approach to creating public art differs from more conventional monuments and statues of tribute and can be considered as a non-linear approach to presenting history. While the events these artworks refer to have taken place in the past, the issues surrounding them continue to have relevance to political situations of today.

Tributaries are geographic fingers of water moving across the landscape making connections with a main water source. As a title for my Master of Fine Arts research paper this metaphorically refers to the political, social and cultural streams which are expressed through my public artworks. It is also a poetic play on notions of paying tribute. This research examines the process of collaboration and cross-cultural arts practice and the relationship between a public artwork, the site and the audience. Four diverse yet interrelated public art projects are presented for my Master of Fine Arts degree. This research investigates the conceptual links between the four projects and the current discourse of cross-cultural collaborations. Although my art practice varies in location, materials, forms and approach, generally it is focussed around sculpture and installation and includes temporary and permanent public artworks. Two of the projects discussed took place in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, the other two took place in Vietnam. This research discusses the advantages, disadvantages and challenges in choosing to work collaboratively and questions the relationship of the author to the work and the importance of the process in creating an artwork. It also explores notions of hierarchy and power relationships that occur between artists from within the same culture and between artists from different cultures. Exploring the connections between public art and specific communities/sites has expanded my research into related notions of homes, homelessness and displacement. My approach to public sculpture is deliberately anti-monumental. This takes into account the relationship of scale within a public artwork: including the relationship of the work to the human body and to the surrounding environment I examine how contemporary public art can serve as a form of tribute to historic events and people of the past. My poetic approach to creating public art differs from more conventional monuments and statues of tribute and can be considered as a non-linear approach to presenting history. While the events these artworks refer to have taken place in the past, the issues surrounding them continue to have relevance to political situations of today.

Orientador: Percival Tirapeli / Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa sobre Arte Pública retrata a Nova Praça da Sé de São Paulo e suas esculturas. A Sé é um espaço com uma referência simbólica muito forte para a cidade, apesar das transformações que passou ao longo do tempo. A mais radical ocorreu na década de 60, para a instalação do Metropolitano na região, e é dessa época também a instalação do seu Jardim de Esculturas, considerado um dos principais núcleos escultórios de São Paulo. Outros elementos também foram importantes para esta pesquisa, como a memória arquitetônica e a relação que as pessoas têm com seus lugares preferidos, considerando que o ser humano, é o elemento mais importante, dentro desse espaço construído, que é a cidade. / Abstract: This research about Public Art, retracts the New Sé's Square of São Paulo and theirs scultures. The Sé is a very strong symbolic reference space for city, even the transformations that has passed over through the years. The most radical happened on the 70's, for the Undergound subway installation of the region; and the Sculture's Garden is from this time as well, consider one of the principle Sculture's Nucleus from São Paulo. From this research others elements were important, like the arquitetonics memory and the relation that people have with theirs favorite places, considering the human the most important element in this built space, that is the city. / Mestre

This paper explores various methods of integrating art into the landscape. It is recognized that the landscape is an important location of human experience. Art has the capacity to enhance our understanding of the world as it is concerned with heightening one's perceptions. Thus, it is important that art be integrated into the landscape to illuminate the relationship between humans and the material world. A literature review is conducted in order to determine methods of integrating art with the landscape. First, precedents of art in the landscape, and art and landscape architectural theory, are researched to identify criteria of engaging landscape experience. Second, a typology of differing modes of integrating art and landscape architecture is drawn out of the literature review. In response to the research, a site is chosen and designed according to the types identified. The designs provide a model of various modes of integrating art with the landscape and allow the theory to be tested and evaluated. The conclusion is that there is no right way of integrating art into the environment, but that in certain situations one type may be more appropriate than another. It is recognized that planning for art in the landscape is extremely important to ensuring integration between artwork and landscape. Perhaps then, the typology identified in this paper is best used by public art planners in the pre-development stage. By planning for art in the landscape proactively, there is less opportunity for landscape and artwork to be autonomous and objectified. To be sure, when art is integrated with the landscape the experience of place is enriched, and as a result, the human experience is enhanced. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled: Public, art, space : a sensory experience. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled : Public, art, space : a sensory experience. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.