Sighting
Sighting takes the medium of cinema outside of the confines of a prerecorded event and into a experiential performance to be witnessed as live act. The components of contemporary cinema get broken down and deconstructed into their audio / visual elementary building blocks while reverting the role of the landscape from background into the main focus of the narrative.
By Joey Jensen & Pascual Sisto.
Sound Design by Noah Schy.
Sunday, October 13, 2013, 7:30 pm
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.
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.
