Broken Country

Broken Country extends a project of experimental geography, rooted in close reading of the literal and cultural landscapes that surrounded Drop City, an alternative community of late 1960s. A seemingly repressed spatial juxtaposition focuses the project: Drop City stood directly across a narrow country road from a functioning public school, built by the WPA as Progressives overhauled public education after the Great Depression. Heuristic methods—including analytical tools from the disciplines as well as language games and nonlinear operations—generate networks connecting these two sites with a range of others, actual and discursive.

Installation view, Broken Country at Malmö Konsthal

Picketwire Canyon Model #2 (Morgan, Raoul, Ben, Anna and Stefan’s 4-fold pattern), 2013

Re-spatialized theoretical model, 2013

Detail of Re-spatialized theoretical model, 2013

Detail of Occasional bottom (SW corner of A. Blasi & Sons Trucking & Earthmoving property, Las Animas County, Colorado, August 2011). 12 archival pigment prints, 2013.

Explanatory object: Meteorite/Dust Cloud/Drop Art, 2013

Meteor Crater, Coconino County, Arizona), 2013. Archival pigment print

Exhibited at Malmö Konsthal, 2013. Curated by Jacob Fabricius.