A journey into the American West: project at CLUI

A synopsis by way of explanation before you start to read...

Hi, I'm Lucy. I started my blog July 2009, to document my journey across the American West, and it now forms an archive of the Land Arts of The American West program 2009. As you can read below the journey took me far and wide with wonderful people, seeing wonderful places. When we returned from travelling we had 3 crazy weeks to put a show together. In that time I printed many photos and did 2 installations "off-site" i.e. away from the gallery space. One in an abandoned phone booth and one under a stairwell, both in different spaces within the University of New Mexico (UNM) campus. The tumble weed and barbed wire piece evolved further when I met The Chuppers - an electronic arts ensemble based in a wonderful recording studio filled with weird and wonderful hybrid instruments forged together from old and new technology. The Chuppers saw my piece under the stairs and were inspired to create music and video projection with my piece which I then in turn decided to "perform" for an audience. Around 40 or so people joined us on the night of the 18th Novemeber our audio, visual and corporeal performance...all of which is documented in my blog. This Blog has formed part of the Land Arts 2009 show at John Sommers Gallery, UNM.

Friday, 11 September 2009

project at CLUI

the town is kind of a strange little island of contradictions within an alien landscape.

Casinos, religion, world war 2 iconic delapidated buildings, salt flats and ancient seas...

I thought it was ironic that one of the 3 main casinos was called montego bay and I started thinking about the area as an ancient inland sea (which it was thousands of years ago)

I started thinking about bays, haven, islands, in the area there are rock formations which would have been island at one point.

I was really interested in these juxtapositions so based my work their on filming and photographing inside and outside the casino.

I've posted some pictures but the most interesting stuff was video which is still in the edit!