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Projecting Artlies into the Void
Void being the essential character of borrowed land near Deming, NM, prompted a dispersed response from Land Arts to make the Arlies archive by locating the actual issues within the landscape and archiving the stories, or lies, returned in exchange.
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In 2006, Land Arts of the American West was asked to create an
ARTL!ES ‘archive’ at Cabinetlandia, a borrowed piece of land near
Deming, New Mexico. The site is part of the Deming Ranchettes,
desert scrubland throughout Luna County that was speculatively
divided into 87,000 half-acre residential lots and sold in the
1960s. Bound by a major east-west railroad to the north, the voided
subdivision containing our site is bisected by Interstate 10. Its
original dirt roads have become faint shadows tracing property
lines across an expanse of open horizon. This seemingly empty
Chihuahuan Desert basin appears as a zone to traverse on your way
between places. Void is the essential character of this place. Its
transient nature and the ambulatory mode of Land Arts investigation
prompted a dispersed response to the project. Instead of making a
static container, our goal was to locate the actual issues within
the landscape and archive the stories, or lies, returned in that
exchange. After considerable difficulty with the weather and local
site conditions, we spent three days distributing the printed
history of ARTL!ES in and around Deming—finding, and being found
by, people willing to talk. Through this process unpredictable
events ensued, like the invitation of the Kretek twins, ranching
sisters in there seventies, for our entire crew of seventeen to
join them for an evening at the Rio Mimbres Country Club. Before
dinner, Geraldine and Gertrude’s good friend ‘Hawk,’ a lifelong
cowboy and circus performer, treated us to a rope trick
demonstration—in the dining room. Once all the issues were located,
the recorded stories were edited and compiled for broadcast on the
site. A portable tower was built to project ARTL!ES into the void;
to broadcast the stories of Deming into the desert, towards the
passing traffic, and back into the landscape that produced
them.
Audio archive of the first fifty-one issues of ARTL!ES created
through an exchange of journals for stories from people in and
around Deming, New Mexico, 6-11 October 2006.
Produced under the direction of Chris Taylor by Land Arts of the
American West.
Final audio editing by George Morrow.
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