Amy Balkin will discuss sited, durational, and participatory projects and collaborations including Public Smog (a ‘clean-air’ park in the atmosphere), Invisible-5 (an environmental justice audio tour of the I-5 corridor), A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting, and other artworks engaged with public participation, equity and climate change’s bureaucracies. Balkin’s presentation is Oct. 17 at 11 a.m. in 1105 Cruess Hall. 

Balkin is an artist whose work involves land and the geopolitical relationships that frame it. Her solo and collaborative projects, including Public Smog and Invisible-5, consider political and legal borders and systems, environmental justice, and the allocation of common-pool resources.

Balkin received her MFA from the Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and her project “This is the Public Domain” was included in the publication Situation (MIT Press, 2009). More about Amy Balkin: visit her website. 

The Department of Design is part of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.