SPACE, LAND, AND TIME: UNDERGROUND ADVENTURES WITH ANT FARM

SPACE, LAND, AND TIME: UNDERGROUND ADVENTURES WITH ANT FARM
DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH FEDERICI, LAURA HARRISON
US, 2010

VISITING ARTIST—The renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm is perhaps best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, now a celebrated American roadside attraction. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers also created a body of other deeply subversive work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and predicted many of the ideas and technologies we take for granted today. From inflatable living spaces and extreme home constructions to their infamous re-staging of the JFK assassination and such stellar events as 1975’s “Media Burn,” in which a customized Cadillac blasts through a mountain of flaming television sets in a San Francisco parking lot—Ant Farm inspired and amused in ways traceable in subsequent generations of artist and activists. (78 mins.)

Director Elizabeth Federici will introduce the film.