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HDTS 4 (2004)

Artist’s Swap Meet

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Amy Yao

Wendy Yao

β€œ…What is a swap meet?”

East Coasters and others always ask us… It’s essentially a flea market. This question underscores the locality of the words, pointing out that they are specific to the West Coast. Swap meets are everywhere in the West Coast and some, like the Slauson Swap Meet, have been made famous in West Coast rap.

We grew up going to swap meets nearly every weekend, tagging along with our grandparents at the break of dawn and riding illegally amongst the boxes in the back of their customized white Toyota minivan. Our grandparents worked at the swap meet every weekend for years, selling videotape rewinders and novelty erasers imported from Taiwan. We would help out and watch all the strange characters pass through, everyone buying or selling something. These are some of our earliest memories: the improvised look of each booth, everything on the go. If we were good, at the end of each day our grandparents would let us buy one thing from the used book vendor next door. We would get things like old paperback books published by Mad Magazine, full of jokes and innuendo that we were still too young to fully understand.

The Art Swap Meet has always been an experiment in how an ephemeral, mobile marketplace works within the desert, an environment of extremes where only the fit survive. It provides a chance for its participants to test ideas, make artist direct sales, create works and experiences that might not be salable, or embrace the absurdity of setting up shop in a location where your customer may or may not show up. In all, it’s a beautiful spectacle where trading posts sprout up at sunrise and then evaporate like mirages…

β€”Wendy and Amy Yao

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HDTS 4 (2004)

OCTOBER 23, 2004 - OCTOBER 24, 2004

50' X 50'
Roxanne Bartlett
Beach House #3
Pentti Monkkonen
"Believer" and "Party of One"
Karen Lofgren
Black Chime
Mungo Thomson
Blind as a Bat
Alex Slade
Desert Faux Pas
Jasmine Little
Green Tent: A Competition to Design a Sustainable Camping Shelter
Stephanie Smith
Interpretive Taxonomy for the California Oriente in the Vicinity of Joshua Tree
Christopher James
Left Mitten / The Great Denudation
Christy Gast
NAFT-Oil
Rainer Ganahl
No Title
Muffy Brandt
Justin Samson
Portraits of the Missing
John Brinton Hogan
Road Sign, Air Pocket
Jim Skuldt
Sightplan
Chuck Moffit
Ingram Ober
Site : Nonsite : Quartzsite
AUDC
Surprise, Terror, Superstition, Silence, Melancholy, Power, Strength
Thom Merrick
Krblin Jihn Kabin
Eames Demetrios
Untitled by Kristen Botshekan
Kristen Botshekan
Water & Chemo
Shannon Ebner
Wearer-Wanderers
Bettina Hubby
Artist's Swap Meet
Amy Yao
Wendy Yao
AZ Wagon Station Rekit Project
Jonas Hauptman
Church of the Cult of P / Desserts in the Desert
Cult of P
Dingo Derby
Feral Childe
Dust Farming
David Dodge
Free Radio HDTS
Christy Gast
Fabienne Lasserre
Grotto
Kathleen Johnson
Linda Taalman
Lost Desert Stage
Skylar Haskard
Joel Kyack
Lost, Target, Home, Always, Swing Station
Cristian Alexa
Radio Free Joshua Tree: Peacenik at the Beatnik
The History of the Last Five Minutes (No.1)
Marie Lorenz
Untitled by Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson
Wood Tower (Gets the Job Done)
Justin Beal
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