From Dawn till Dusk (Episode 2). An online encounter between two earthworks by Robert Smithson
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Report on the livestream
On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, between 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. (CET) (6:00 am to 1:00 pm Mountain Time / 8:00am to 3:00pm Eastern Time), tune in to watch the online encounter between Robert Smithson's only two remaining earthworks: Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah and Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in Emmen, in the Netherlands. Broadcasting live from first light at Spiral Jetty and concluding with last light at Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, this special digital event is a part of Land Art Lives, an on-going research project exploring the relevance of Land Art for our current times.
Both works will be visible side by side on your screen that day, and you can join us online, wherever you are in the world. The livestream is also directly broadcasted at Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, USA and Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
From Dawn till Dusk (episode 2) is a co-production between Land Art Lives and Land Art Contemporary in the Netherlands, and Land Art of the American West (Texas Tech University) and Holt/Smithson Foundation in the United States of America.
Below is the livestream startscreen. We will start broadcasting at 14.00 PM (CET). Below you will find the programme for Wednesday 10 September, 2025.
Livestream Program
| MT | CET | Spiral Jetty | Broken Circle/Spiral Hill |
| 6:00 | 14:00 | ||
| 6:05 | 14:05 | First light | |
| 6:30 | 14:30 | ||
| 7:00 | 15:00 | reading Untitled Robert Smithson (1971) | |
| 7:30 | 15:30 | reading of The Spiral Jetty (1972) by Robert Smithson - part 1 | |
| 8:00 | 16:00 | reading of The Spiral Jetty (1972) by Robert Smithson - part 2 | |
| 8:30 | 16:30 | Anne Reenders on fluctuating waters at Broken Circle/Spiral Hill | |
| 9:00 | 17:00 | Chris Taylor on fluctuating waters at Spiral Jetty | |
| 9:30 | 17:30 | Observations by Jan Rothuizen** | |
| 10:00 | 18:00 | reading of The Spiral Jetty (1972) by Robert Smithson - part 3 | |
| 10:30 | 18:30 | reading of The Spiral Jetty (1972) by Robert Smithson - part 4 | |
| 11:00 | 19:00 | Observations by Jan Rothuizen | |
| 11:30 | 19:30 | Observations by Maira Kalman* | |
| 12:00 | 20:00 | Observations by Jan Rothuizen | |
| 12:30 | 20:30 | Observations by Maira Kalman | |
| 13:00 | 21:00 | ||
| 13:16 | 21:16 | Last light |
* Bio Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York at the age of four. She has written and illustrated over 30 books for adults and children and contributed frequently to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her collaborations span fashion, film, and design, including projects with Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Spade, Mark Morris, David Byrne, and Michael Pollan. Her watch and clock designs appear under M&Co, founded by her late husband Tibor Kalman. Widely exhibited, she has received numerous awards and delivered several TED talks.
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** Bio Jan Rothuizen
Jan Rothuizen’s Soft Atlas drawings are best described as written maps or graphic reportages. As an artist he discovered that the confined space of a studio was not for him. Walking around and meeting people is his way of being an artist. His work has been translated into English, Spanish and Chinese. He shows his work regularly at home and abroad, at film festivals and museums. He made the interactive award-winning documentary Refugee Republic about a refugee camp in Iraq and the VR animated film Drawing Room. This year his movie Tracing Colombia will premiere.
Relationship between work and image
Last year, this live event took place for the first time. Although the live stream did not go entirely smoothly due to weather conditions in Emmen, we received positive reactions from online visitors from different continents and time zones. Land Art Lives takes up the challenge with the elements to once again create a live connection between the two works.
Most people will know Spiral Jetty and Broken Circle/Spiral Hill from (film) images on the Internet, in books and magazines. After all, the artworks are difficult to access and are located in remote locations. A few have visited the works in real life. Robert Smithson was fascinated by the power of photography, film and language to shape experiences. In his essays and artworks, Smithson explored the relationship between the physical location and the version presented in an exhibition space. He called this the dialogue between the site (an elsewhere) and the nonsite (the here) as the Site/Nonsite dialectic. From Dawn till Dusk aims to create a digital space for an encounter between these two earthworks and provides an opportunity to explore and discuss how media influence our perception of sculpture and landscape over time.