America Starts Here......... rays revised entry for this week

all pics from tang.skidmore.edu thanks.

Hi peoples.
okay well heres the revised correct info packed entry........
seeing as I am no longer stuck near Port Lincoln with none of my info and a crap pay as you go internet machine in a caravan park.i had found an article in the Sculpture journal 25.5 june 2006 page. 42-43 to be exact about the artists and book i found while researching the group public sculpure which filled me with delight as its an excellent book with great,great work by two artists colaborating together.And it was very familiar to me,something i knew in a journal which can be rare.
anyway the book is "America starts Here" and the artists are Kate Ericson and Mel Zeigler.Who started working together in 1978. The books in the library and its really worth a look.Lots of work to do with public places,nature,environment,and community through great ideas and concepts like one called "half free,half slave" where they got the homeowner whose garden they used to not mow half his lawn for two months and this one above with all the doors from inside someones house taken off and all staked together.They did a lot of works negotiating with homeowners and the public to take part in or lend their houses and gardens to the art.The type of art they were doing has been named Relational Aesthetics and Zeigler and Ericson seem to be at the origin of this aesthetic. The name of the book is also the name of an exhibition of their work.Check out the book its a really nice big,crisp,colourful book with lots to look at and lots of interesting public sculpture ideas.And it also shows when collaboration works,which we all may be a little weary of.
Unfortunatly Ericson died in 1995 of cancer but Zeigler is still alive and teaching and the book is there for all to view.......