THE LAY OF THE LAND
The Center for Land Use Interpretation Newsletter
Spring 1997
"The gardens of history are being replaced by the sites of time." --Robert Smithson

Hinterland Project Examines Exurban Environment of Southern California:
Exhibit and Bus Tour Program

The Wendover Residency: A Call for Proposal
NEA Supported Program at the Wendover Exhibit Hall

Field Report: A Higher Plain: The Rajneesh Ranch Revisited

Field Report: The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum
Unusual Exhibit Features the Fixtures at the Business End of the Pipe

Big Film Sunk Ships Sets Stand Out on Land: New Thematic CLUI Project Examines Film Locations

Water Fountain Installed in Desert Dunes
Could it be a Mirage?

The Bombing Targets of the Imperial Valley: Military Jets Zoom In On Pummeled Mounds

Hinterland: A Voyage into Exurban Southern California

Books, In Brief

Paid Summer Internship Position Open
Getty Grant Awarded to the CLUI to Support a 10 Week Multicultural Internship

"Hinterland" Project Examines
Exurban Environment of Southern California
Exhibit and Bus Tour Program

 

The CLUI is preparing an exhibit and a tour progam about rural Southern California, called Hinterland: A Voyage Into Exurban Southern California. The exhibit, which opens May 29 in the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) space in Hollywood, will feature around 100 sites selected for their unusual and expressive qualities. Images and brief text panels will represent the locations, and a large wall map will locate them withing the context of the Hinterland's geographical matrix.

In addition, a series of bus tours will take tourists into the Hinterland to visit some of the sites directly. These day-long guided tours will take place on three Saturdays during the month long exhibit. A guidebook that consolidates all the Hinterland sites is due out this winter.

Organized by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, and LACE, the Hinterland show will be on display at LACE, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, May 29 to July 6, 1997.