Library of Approximate Location: 39’06’59.11”N 110’06’43.32”W
The Library of Approximate Location is a project exploring landscape, place, and the way we use information to define our relationships to the resources that enable modern life. The Library aims to triangulate a common space for learning between these themes and provides a venue for conversation and inquiry. Through use of a library we will claim a physical space—based not in commerce but in sharing and in non-monetized exchange—in which to
practice the commons while exploring these relationships with land and resources.
The Library will be present in the installation site from sunrise to sunset for one day, and will be staffed by a librarian who will provide research guidance and consultation and engage patrons in discussions and imaginings about library and landscape futures. Together we will work to shore up our cultural connections to the complex natural, industrial, and hybrid systems on which we rely completely.
Site: Swasey’s Beach
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
