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Googly Eyes for Giant Rock

October 12–13
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Bettina Hubby

The oversized googly eyes offer up the chance to photograph and imagine the large rock as ones very own pet rock. Humans find (sometimes amusing) coping mechanisms to grasp the scale of ourselves relative to the vastness of nature and mankind’s blip in its timeline.

After viewing Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at LACMA, Hubby brought hand-held googly eyes and took photos of the rock with them in front of it; the exercise served to make the rock much less intimidating in her mind. When she saw Giant Rock, which is 10 times the size of Heizer’s, it called for a bigger set of eyes to produce the same result. The history of Giant Rock escalates the humor in animating it with googly eyes, since it still serves as a site for UFO enthusiasts to gather, and was leased for decades by the eccentric George Van Tassel.

Googly Eyes for Giant Rock will be on view all day Saturday and Sunday, October 12th and 13th, as well as Sunday evening for a Glow-in-the-Dark Cocktail Party!

Glow-in-the-Dark Cocktail Party With Googly Eyes for Giant Rock
Sunday, October 13, 2013, 6 pm (at the time of the setting sun and into the night)
Giant Rock, Landers

Directions: From downtown Joshua Tree, take Sunburst heading north, until the pavement ends at Golden. Turn RIGHT at Golden, and continue to the hard LEFT at Border. Follow Border until it turns LEFT on Reche. Drive another 2 miles and turn RIGHT on Belfield. You’ll see the Integratron on your right–turn RIGHT here, and follow the dirt road toward the left for about 2 miles.

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HDTS 2013

OCTOBER 12, 2013 - OCTOBER 19, 2013

High Desert Test Sites hits the road for a full week of experimental art and exploration, from Joshua Tree to Albuquerque!

HDTS 2013, the ninth program in a series of free ranging and ever evolving contemporary art events, expands our range and depth to take in everything from Joshua Tree, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Roughly 60 new projects will take place over an entire week, during which artists and audience alike will traverse over 700 miles of desert roads to check out the new work and explore the hidden gems and diverse desert communities along this spectacular stretch of the Southwest.

Project sites include: Amboy Crater, Arcosanti, Area 66 (Yucca), Art Queen (Joshua Tree), Bluewater Lake State Park, El Malpais National Monument, El Rancho Hotel (Gallup), Giant Rock (Landers), Hill Top Motel (Kingman), Magdalena Ridge Observatory (Socorro), Mill Restaurant (Crown King), Montessa Park (Albuquerque), Palms Restaurant and Saloon (Wonder Valley), Petrified Forest National Park, Octopus Car Wash (Albuquerque), Pink Post Office Projects (Wonder Valley), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque), Warehouse 1-10 (Magdalena), in addition to our regular HDTS sites.

The week’s festivities include a Saturday night opening dinner (first-come-first-served) at The Palms in Wonder Valley October 12, with musical performances by The Sibleys and The Renderers.

A zine-style publication, designed by Brad Hudson Thomas, with original texts by James Trainor and Eden Solas, will accompany the event.

Arizona Highways As Is
Virginia Poundstone
Desert Appliqué
Léa Donnan
Double Happiness or Nothing (A Study in Potentials)
Stosh Fila/Pigpen
Julie Tolentino
Fractal Business Card Road Trip
Tracy Tynan
Array
Dark:30
Car Wash
K.B. Jones
Myriam Tapp
Collaboratively Determined Telluric Sites
CDTS
Crosswalks
Elsewhere (Etc. Collective)
Documart™
Alex Kenefick
Julianna Parr
Googly Eyes for Giant Rock
Bettina Hubby
GWC, Investigators
Daniel Glendening
Michael Welsh
Sean Patrick Carney
Inflatable Bomb Plumes
Lisa Sitko
Magnetic Influence
Marie Lorenz
Roxanne Bartlett
Mojave Desert Mule Deer Refuge
Brooks Dierdorff
Naima
Debbie Long
Pelican Radio
Jim Drain
Pink Post Office Projects
Margot Ittleson
Philip Ittleson
Roadside Monument 3
Cayetano Ferrer
Secret Restaurant
Bob Dornberger
Jim Piatt
Self Storage
Lars Fisk
256 Shades of Grey
Kartz Ucci
Smooth Operator - American Tourism Viewing Deck Van
Kurt Brethauer
Souvenir Collab
Julia Barbee
Matt Suplee
Ways to Be in the Desert
Katie Bachler
We Build Excitement
Jesse Sugarmann
Wonder Valley Way Station
Corrina Peipon
Lucy Raven
Xeriscope
Art Queen
Next Punchline 30 Miles
Bennett Williamson
Samovar Tea Ceremony Performance
Harald Kanz
Sighting
Joey Jensen
Pascual Sisto
Desert Traces
Catherine Stebbins
Doomsday Créches
Maya Gurantz
Mall Ruin
Landon Wiggs
Even Steven
Olav Westphalen
Hotshots
Saskia Jorda
Victor Sidy
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Fox, Come and Sleep in the Snow with the Tiger Leopard
Rose Mackey
Erin Olivia Weber
Plenty of Shit
Mattias Cantzler
Stratify
Katie Shook
Captured in the West
Pilar Conde
The Rose
Adam Marnie
Ed Steck
A New Horizon
Scott Oliver
Burial Grounds
Vecinos Artist Collective
Cover Songs
Michael Iauch
High Desert Mink Hole
Joseph Herring
The Distance Makes Us Feel Closer
Chris Kallmyer
The Journal of Missionary Linguistics
Alisha Adams
Untitled by Michael Bisbee
Michael Bisbee
Wonder Machine
Kera Mackenzie
Courtney Prokopas
Dusty Inflatables
Alex Webb
Catherine Harris
Nina Dubois
Tradewinds Signs Rally
Andrea Polli
Ellen Babcock
Objects of Strange High Folk
Mark X. Farina
This Desert, That Desert
Angela de la Agua
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