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Eve Andree Laramee (wander@earthlink.net)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:20:19 -0500

Brad thanks for sending the info on the Dead Artist Desert Trailer Park, I
remember seeing a notice about it in some newsletter. Your project sounds
very interesting. What Southwestern Desert is the DADT park located in? (I
like this new definition of park which includes areas frequently thought of
as vacant, devastated or pulverized). I have lived in New York the past
eleven years, but am originally from the SouthWest. This summer (until) Aug
20 or so, I am on the road in SOuthern California, for a project.

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In the world of history, there is time spent in the desert. But what about
those of us who are born within it? There one finds the residue of the
trace, the dust of attention.

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Eve Andr=E9e Laram=E9e

> warfare, empire, government expansion, resources exploitation,
> ecological exhaustion, consumption and the manufacture of needs
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> spirit, appetite, faith, emotion, intuition, will, experience...
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> D E A D - A R T I S T D E S E R T T R A I L E R - P A R K
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> offers scholarships and studio-space
> for qualifying applicants
> contact: bbrace@netcom.com for info
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> T h e n i g h t h a s b e e n d e m o l i s h e d ,
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> b u t t h e d e s e r t p r e v a i l s .
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> As time goes by, it is the established patterns of thought, the known
>arguments, the self-perpetuating truths which become the principal
>defenders of the structures in place. ..The active vocabulary needed to
>question, even to simply discuss them, has withered away.
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> | The Dead-Artist Desert Trailer-Park is located in the American
> | Southwest Desert. I basically inherited (after paying back-taxes)
> | an isolated, derelict trailer-park which is being
> | transformed without the interference of cultural bureaucrats
> | into a working resource for creative pursuits. The financial
> | overhead is practically non-existent; intelligent applicants are
> | told the location of the Trailer-Park and given written permissio=
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> | to abide there. Usually some structural and creative contribution
> | is made to the Park during your stay. No application fees, slides=
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> | references, or resumes are required or desired. A questionnaire i=
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> | sent to all applicants. The current residents will invite new
> | applicants to visit. APPLICATIONS FOR THE NEXT SEASON ARE BEING
> | PERUSED NOW; an electronic response is preferred.
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>only the artists capable of dragging the mystic power out of themselves
>seem able to work productively within the breakdown of our society...
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> Al-Shira-al-jamanija
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