Feb 26, 2010

UR RITUALS at Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map

UR RITUALS is a collaborative sound performance and temporal land art installation staged at the ruins of an early 20th century homesteader house in Wonder Valley. The dilapidated homesteader cabins pepper the desert landscape in a crumbling Jeffersonian grid, symbolizing the remains of an early modernist vision of utopian futures. As ruins these small homes have come to signify untamable nature, an anomaly in otherwise logical landscapes.  During the performance the artists will project organic topographical sounds and images upon the landscape to further bend the confines of Cartesian geometry. The performance brings together sound artists Ted Byrnes, Kelly Coats, Helga Fassonaki, Steve Kim, Gregory Lenczycki, Jorge Martin, Albert Ortega, Ron Russell, Andrew Scott, and Gabie Strong. The installation is conceived by Gabie Strong.
March 5, 2010 - March 7, 2010

Saturday, March 6th 

1:00 - 6:00 PM
Site Specific installations, artists will discuss projects (including the Desert Die)
Sundown (Approx 6:30 PM) Sound Performance of UR RITUALS

8:00 PM
Video works and readings by participating artists, and performances by The Sibleys and Curly and the Black Lung


Sunday, March 7th

12:00 - 2:00 PM
Exhibition Reception at UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center

1:00 PM
Artists and Curator Walkthrough

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posted by ---- at Friday, February 26, 2010

Feb 25, 2010

Desert Die

The "Desert Die" sculptural way-finding device is almost for the ready! This beautiful sculpture is a combination of a book and way-finding device. It has an audio component, with text written by Jared Stanley. The device was designed and fabricated by Matthew Hebert.  I designed the illustrative panels. Go cnc/craft!


You can find it as of March 6 at the Wonder Valley location of Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map


The Desert Die is an interactive sculptural way-finding device that interrogates how language mediates landscape. The Desert Die subverts the notion of stationary wayside interpretive literature, and instead uses the visual and verbal vocabulary of interpretive literature against its original intention to orient the spectator within the landscape. In typical wayside literature, the marker formalizes the viewer's experience into a one-point perspective; in The Desert Die we add an additional five perspectives on any given point; in this way, we investigate how an object can limit and manipulate experience in the landscape. The piece is a six-sided die, approximately 1' square in size, and rests on a pedestal. The die is constructed of steel, with milled aluminum placards bolted to each side. Each placard features an engraving of an imaginary element of a desert landscape. Each time the die is "rolled," a switch within the die will trigger an audio recording of a poetic/interpretive text describing an imaginary site, and not necessarily the site in which the Desert Die is located. The project is collaboration between Jared Stanley, Gabie Strong, and Matthew Hebert.  The Desert Die will be installed temporarily in the Wonder Valley area on March 6 as part of the greater Mapping the Desert event.


Here's a sneak of the panel drawings.












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posted by ---- at Thursday, February 25, 2010

Jan 22, 2010

Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map


















More photographs from this excursion into the hinterland can be found at my Flickr collections page

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Still life with bombs


Untitled
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong


Untitled, 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

From the series, "Photographs of Mock Theaters of War, As Means to Generate Conscientious Objection."

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Satan the Brotherhood


Satan the Brotherhood
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong

Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
Untitled (F'd Up Road, Wonder Valley, CA), 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

Part of a series

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Views


Views
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong

Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
Untitled (F'd Up Road, Wonder Valley, CA), 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

Part of a series

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Junkspace


Junkspace
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong

Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
Untitled (F'd Up Road, Wonder Valley, CA), 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

Part of a series

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Untitled


Untitled
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong

Prototype for War

Untitled, 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

From the series, "Photographs of Mock Theaters of War, As Means to Generate Conscientious Objection."

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posted by ---- at Friday, January 22, 2010

Dec 6, 2009

Goodbye Analog Television


Goodbye Analog Television
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
Goodbye Analog Television, 2009
8 x 10" digital chromogenic print

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posted by ---- at Sunday, December 06, 2009

Pool


Pool
Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
Pool, 2009
16 x 20" digital chromogenic print

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posted by ---- at Sunday, December 06, 2009

End Is Near


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Originally uploaded by Gabie Strong
End Is Near, 2009
8 x 10" digital chromogenic print

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posted by ---- at Sunday, December 06, 2009

Oct 27, 2009

La Jolla, California



Gabie Strong
La Jolla, CA, 2009
Pigment on paper, mounted to board
11 x 14"

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posted by ---- at Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Oct 26, 2009

Complex



Los Angeles/El Segundo I, CA, 2009
Pigment on paper mounted to board
11 x 14"





Los Angeles/El Segundo II, CA, 2009
Pigment on paper mounted to board
11 x 14"

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posted by Gabie Strong at Monday, October 26, 2009

Jul 21, 2009

"Speculative Economies"



Corporate Vapors, 2009
Light Jet photograph, 20 x 30"




Untitled (argon), 2009
Light Jet photograph, 20 x 24"




It's the new you, 2009
Light Jet photograph, 30 x 48"




Green, 2009
Light Jet photograph, 20 x 30"




New You (II), 2009
Light Jet photograph, 20 x 30"


"Speculative Economies" is a new photographic work in development. Stay tuned!

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posted by ---- at Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Mar 17, 2009

Military Balance



Gabie Strong
Datum, 2008
16 Light Jet photographs, 15x 18" ea.
Installation view


The project My War (after the 1983 Black Flag record of the same name) is an attempt to reveal the uncanny structure of the naturalization of war in Southern California. By photographing archives, landscapes of military ruins, and in turn poetic, activist, and radical responses to this latent militarism in the Los Angeles region, this work forms a geographic and indexical trace of imperialism rooted in the banality of the everyday. The central focus within My War is the conceptual photographic piece Datum, a series of sixteen photographs of bound periodicals located in the UC Irvine, Langson Public Library. These photographs literally depict colorful, burlap bound journals and magazines of US defense industry data reports, counterintelligence statistical manuals, military oversight committee white papers, outsider watchdog group pamphlets, and armed forces handbooks. The sequence of dates represented in Datum span from the early 70s to the present, signifying a time line of war during eras of supposed peace and conflict. Presented in a linear sequence organized by form, color, and a poetic play with language, these books render a surprising sequential narrative of war throughout the artist's lifetime. The explicit titles of the books coupled with sequential time signatures suggest that a larger system is in effect, vis-a-vis Paul Virilio's theory of "Pure War"--the continuous and systematic act of war, not only engaging in actual violence but also through organized logistical efforts to control economies, architecture, cities, and the technology we use in our everyday lives.


Details of select photographs in the series:






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posted by ---- at Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Mar 6, 2009

Politics of Time



Gabie Strong
Politics of Time (Minutemen, 1981, 1984, 1982, SST, San Pedro, CA), 2008
Three light jet photographs, 30 x 30" each


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posted by ---- at Friday, March 06, 2009

Mar 5, 2009

My War (Black Flag, Hermosa Beach, CA 1983)



Gabie Strong
My War (Black Flag, Hermosa Beach, CA 1983), 2008
Light Jet photograph, mounted to Dibond, framed
30 x 30"

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posted by ---- at Thursday, March 05, 2009

Jun 28, 2008

Untitled, 2008

Untitled silent Super 8 film from 2008, featuring abandoned Military Industrial-Complex site located in the northern Mojave desert of Southern California.

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posted by ---- at Saturday, June 28, 2008