Naima
Naima is a rusted camping trailer set out in the wide open desert, its paint bleached by the sun. Inside the trailer is a white chamber lined with amethyst-colored glass objects collected from the desert and then cast in purple glass. Purple light entirely surrounds the viewer, emitting from the cast pieces as if they had walked into a giant geode, or discovered a neon light filled crystal cave.
Saturday–Monday, October 12–14, 2013*
Coyote Dry Lake
Joshua Tree
Directions: From Hwy 62, turn on Sunfair Road. Go 3.9 miles. Turn right on the unmarked dirt road (just past the Jack Fletcher rock house–look for markers). Follow dirt road straight towards hills for approximately 0.7 miles…follow signs/markers to site.
*Best viewed during the day
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.
