Newsletter: The Lay of the Land: Archives: Summer 1998 |
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INDEX The VORs of Texas: CLUI Exhibit Explores Strangely Familiar Radio Beacons Wendover Residence Program Completes Successful Summer Angola Prison and Prison Museum A Visit to the Rainbow Gathering Land Disposition: The Dream of Land Ownership, and the Reality of the Beryl Townsite Unusual Real Estate Listing # 187: Sea-Arama Marine Animal Park
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Wendover Residence Program Completes
Successful Summer
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One of John Reed's Fugitives
- wind-powered sculptures that roam the salt flats. |
The Center's Wendover Residence Program operated at full capacity this Spring and Summer, with more than ten different artists working at the CLUI complex for various lengths of time. The program, started by the CLUI in 1995, assists artists and other researchers interested in exploring and interpreting the unique landscapes in the vicinity of the small town of Wendover, which is located on the edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah. Successful applicants to the program live and work at The Center's studio and exhibition hall complex, located amidst the ruins of the old Wendover bomber base.
Summer 1998 project highlights included:
John Reed and Jennifer Odem's self-propelled
kinetic sculptures, including the Fugitives series of wind-powered
enscribing devices designed to roam the salt flats.
Jeremy Kunkel built several camera obscuras around the old
bombing range, and the project was documented by fellow Down-town
LA artist Gronk, who is currently editing a video production
about the installation of the work and the area.
Alice Konitz, an artist from Dusseldorf, Germany, transformed
an old travel trailer into a reflective light box on wheels,
which is on display outside The Center's studio.
Kelly Coyne's Tragic Trajectory model rocket performances.
James Harbison will return this Fall to install his sound
sculpture, created during his six-week stay last Spring.
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Left: CLUI Wendover Resident James Harbison checks
metal debris for tonality, in a bomb crater outside
Wendover, for possible inclusion in his sound sculpture
project. Right: Alice Konitz and her Solar Trailer,
constructed and installed in Wendover. |
Activity at the Wendover Residence Program generally slows down from October to March, when temperatures at Wendover can begin to drop below the comfortable range. Next year brings programs from the SimpArch team, and an installation of photographs from Jennifer Steensma, resident at Wendover in May of this year.