1. 11 mars 2015: réservation confirmée
THE LIGHTNING FIELD Reservation Confirmation
Thank you for your reservation. Please carefully review all the following information, especially arrival and departure times, and contact us immediately if you have any questions.
Arrival Date: Friday, August 14, 2015
Number of visitors: 2
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE PLANNING YOUR VISIT:
Arrival and Departure: Please check in at Dia’s office in XXXXXXX by 2:00 p.m. on your arrival date and bring a copy of this confirmation with you. The office is in a two-story white building with large windows on the north side of the town’s main street just west of the Magistrate Court building. If you are coming into town from the east, go past the rock house, the service station, and the Magistrate Court building, then watch for the large white building on your right. There are small signs in the windows.
Transportation to The Lightning Field in Dia’s vehicle is scheduled to depart at 2:30 p.m. or as soon as possible. Departure cannot be delayed past 3:00 so please be prompt so other visitors will not have to wait. Additional trips cannot be accommodated.
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You will be returned to XXXXXXX the following day at approximately noon (…).
Accommodations:
A simple supper is prepared and left in the refrigerator for you and breakfast items are provided for you to prepare the next morning. If you have any special dietary requirements please plan to bring supplemental food or beverages of your own. (…) Cell phones do not have service at the site but there is telephone contact with the caretaker and emergency medical services.
Please note that a full experience of The Lightning Field does not depend upon the occurrence of lightning and that you may not observe lightning during your visit.
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Thank you for your interest in Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field. We hope you enjoy your visit.
2. 14 août 2015: extraits du texte de Walter de Maria publié dans Artforum 18, no. 8 (April 1980), pp. 52–59.
The land is not the setting for the work but part of the work.
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Desirable qualities of the location included flatness, high lightning activity and isolation.
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The sum of the facts does not constitute the work or determine its aesthetics.
The Lightning Field measures one mile by one kilometer and six meters (…). There are 400 highly polished stainless steel poles (…) arranged in a regular grid array (…) and are spaced 220 feet apart.
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The primary experience takes place within the Lightning Field.
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Part of the essential content of the work is the ratio of people to the space : a small number of people in a large amount of space.
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It is intended that the work be viewed alone, or in the company of a very small number of people, over at least a 24 hour period.
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The light is as important as the lightning.
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The invisible is real.
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Isolation is the essence of Land Art.
