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DEHSART - Desert Engagement, Hinder Swill, Achieve Recycled Trash awarded funding from the Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force to creatively address the problem of trash abandoned in the desert though a series of sculptures made from site waste, a poster campaign and PSA featuring the winning poster message.
Using a recycled crate, research and trash collected on site, the Mobile Interpretive Unit offered an audio introduction to the Llano del Rio Colony in Llano, CA. The utopian experiment existed until 1918 in the Antelope Valley, while comrades began crating their belongings for New Llano in Louisiana in 1917.
Hinterculture's first project DEHSART is featured in Artbound, a first for the Antelope Valley. Read the article at KCET's Artbound, by clicking the find out more button below.
Hinterculture teamed up with Cindy Rehm of Craftswoman House for a Temporary Residence to introduce our call for proposals for the 100th anniversary of the largest non-religious Utopian experiment in Western American history at the ruins of Llano del Rio in Llano, CA.
Hinterculture co-founders Karyl Newman and Larissa Nickel share research in progress about the Llano del Rio Colony as part of Under Construction, a group exhibition of works in progress at the Antelope Valley College Art Gallery.
Featuring a screening of Dear Comrade by Mady Schutzman documenting the story of Llano del Rio, Volley at Greene Exhibitions included an installation of photos from the colony with names of the comrades pictured.
Hinterculture and Craftswoman House issued a call for proposals for our project marking the centennial of the Llano del Rio colony on May 3rd, 2014.
Created for an education presentation about Illegal Dumping, and inspired by Alyce Santoro's Sonic Fabric made of re-purposed cassette tape, Karyl Newman collected a couple of e-waste-d tape players (thanks Jason at the Lancaster HHW recycling center!) and hacked the play heads. We find cassettes and VHS media dumped in the desert all the time. An illegal dumping bumper sticker holds the magnetic tape in place while scratching the playhead.
The final product of DEHSART's first AVIDTF grant, the illegal dumping public service video aired on the city of Palmdale's local access channel 27 and featured the 2013 grant cycle's winning CTA - REPORT.
