General advices from various topics:
Keith Matthew Thornton aka Kool Keith advice on Seltzer Water
HOW TO EXPROPRIATE MONEY FROM THE BANKS
Who Would Want People To Leave With The Implified Feeling:
ISN'T SOMEBODY ELSE CLEVER?
Oblique Strategies
Info on Oblique Strategies
HIGH DESERT TEST SITE MISSION: (advice to art space, project space owners)
To challenge traditional conventions of ownership, property, and patronage. Most projects will ultimately belong to no one and are intended to melt back into the landscape as new ones emerge.
To “insert” art directly into a life, a landscape, or a community where it will sink or swim based on a set of criteria beyond that of art world institutions and galleries.
To encourage art that remains in the context for which it was created—work will be born, live, and die in the same spot.
To initiate an organism in its own right—one that is bigger and richer than the vision of any single artist, architect, designer, or curator.
To create a “center” outside of any preexisting centers. We are inspired by individuals and groups working outside of existing cultural capitals, who are able to make intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant work in whatever location they happen to be in.
To find common ground between contemporary art and localized art issues.
To contribute to a community in which art can truly make a difference. HDTS exists in a series of communities that edge one of the largest suburban sprawls in the nation. Many of the artists who settle in this area are from larger cities, but want to live in a place where they can shape the development of their own community. For the time being, there is still a feeling in the air that if we join together we can still hold back the salmon stucco housing tracts and big box retail centers. Well maybe.
Backyard Ballistics
Soda pop rockets
