May 21, 2004
Ant Farm: 1968-1978 at Santa Monica: Museum: of Art, June 5- August 14, 2004
Opening reception: Friday, June 4, from 7-9 p.m.
Ant Farm: 1968–1978 is a retrospective of the underground architectural collective whose core members were Doug Michels, Chip Lord, and Curtis Schreier. As a group, the members of Ant Farm helped break down established boundaries between architecture and art, between conceptual and physical production, and between their lives as individuals and their artistic production. Ant Farm was responsible for such iconic works as Cadillac Ranch (Chip Lord, Doug Michaels, Hudson Marquez, 1974)—a modern Stonehenge of ten 1949 to 1964 model Cadillacs buried nose down just outside of Amarillo, Texas—and Media Burn (1975, 25:43 min, color, sound)—a performance on July 4, 1975, where members of the collective drove the Phantom Dream Car, a customized 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz convertible, through a wall of flaming televisions in the audience-filled parking lot of the San Francisco Cow Palace. Both works illustrate Ant Farm's signature critique of the mainstream culture and media of their day.
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