AUTOLAND
AUTOLAND is a documentary-based inquiry into contemporary American interstate culture. Bring your vehicle and have your portrait taken with it against the tell-tale backdrop of Green River—the picturesque Book Cliffs and visual array of roadside vernacular.
Green River is located on Interstate 70 and is the only major site for services for 110 miles in either direction. In a town of 952 residents, there are 600 hotel rooms, thirteen restaurants, and six gas stations. The impact of the interstate on the town’s culture, economy, environment, and social life is significant. This work will capture the modes of travel of locals and visitors, creating a document of contemporary American rural place through the lens
of vehicular mobility.
The project will be documented at www.interstate.site/autoland
Sites: Gas-n-Go / Conoco Gas Station and Shady Acres / Silver Eagle Gas Station
OCTOBER 9, 2015 - OCTOBER 12, 2015
High Desert Test Sites heads to Green River, Utah for our next “big” event, HDTS: Epicenter.
Following the epic HDTS 2013 event, which took us on the road to Albuquerque, New Mexico, we are turning our focus in 2015 to the communities and contemporary art programs in rural Utah. For our next event we will be partnering with Epicenter, a Green River-based organization founded in 2009 by a group of architectural designers, in the spirit of Samuel Mockbee’s visionary Rural Studio. We are inspired by the energy and vision at Epicenter, and by the ways in which they provide resources to local residents through active involvement in their intimate community.
HDTS: Epicenter is a collaborative curation of artists’ projects, along with many regional points of interest and programs in diverse locations in and around the rural Utah community of Green River. Participating artists include:
Steve Badgett
Cabin-Time
Alyse Emdur & Michael Parker
Butchy Fuego & the Seeing Trails DFA (Division of Fine Art)
Kathleen Johnson & Mark So
Alison Kinney, Daniel Nickerson, Cyrus Smith & Matt Takiff
Nicole Lavelle
Charlie Macquarie
Allan McCollum
Jordan Topiel Paul & J. Gordon Faylor
Ephraim Puusemp, Kiersten Puusemp & Raivo Puusemp
Bennett Williamson
