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Land-art, as an art movement that started in the USA in the 1960s is also known as Earth art or environmental art. Is Land-art installation on golf courses more than just decoration of space? Is these Land-art returning to the ethos of protest? These questions are connected with purpose of this case study: A demonstration of how Land-art can be adapted for non-traditional spaces, such as golf courses. The methodological and practical issues surrounding the creation of new spaces for land art are demonstrated in th...

In our study we are stressing the social function of land-art as a kind of protest going far beyond the professional land-art work and taking the form of bottom-up social movements. We have labelled this process Land, Society and Art – LSA. LSA is often a free, spontaneous movement against the losing of a memory of a place. The aim of LSA is to create common society symbols in the landscape; professional land-art installation is not the main purpose. A common issue with land-art is the element of protest. Protes...