Friday, November 8, 2013

Call for Proposals


Hinterculture and Craftswoman House are pleased to invite proposals for a project marking the centennial of the Llano Del Rio colony on Saturday, May 3, 2014. We seek proposals from all disciplines and encourage collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches. The Llano site offers unique possibilities for site-specificity within the physical landscape and proposals should consider the opportunities and constraints of working within a desert environment.

Individuals are encouraged to visit the Llano site (located at approximately 165th Street East along Highway 138 otherwise known as Pearblossom Highway) and preview a podcast that features historical information, sound art, and interviews about the Llano community https://soundcloud.com/temporaryresidence/the-next-step-a-journey-to (full podcast playlist here.)

Please submit a one-page proposal that details your project, participants and any logistical requirements, current CV and link to a website or examples of previous work, to proposals@hinterculture.com

Deadline: January 31, 2014


Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Next Step Podcast

The Next Step podcast features features historical information, sound art, and interviews about the Llano community link here: https://soundcloud.com/temporaryresidence/the-next-step-a-journey-to

The podcast features contributions from: Rachel Finkelstein, Sara Fowler, Jennifer from JCPenney, Norman Klein, Elizabeth Leister, Karyl Newman, Larissa Nickel, Carl Peecher, Linda Ravenswood, Chelsea Rector, Cindy Rehm, Milt Stark, and Christine Suarez


Special thanks to Mady Schutzman for contributing out takes from her film Dear Comradeand to Chelsea Rector for editing the recording.



Podcast Playlist:

Karyl Newman
Antelope Valley Subdivision Names, Silo Site Recording, August, 2013

Cindy Rehm
Craftswoman House Introduction

Jennifer from JCPenny & Larissa Nickle
Hinterculture Introduction

Chelsea Rector
Untitled Song

Cindy Rehm
About the Hinterculture/Temporary Residence collaboration

Jennifer from JCPenny & Larissa Nickle
Excepts from Impressions of Llano del Rio, The Western Comrade, James R. Nickum

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Karyl Newman
About Llano

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Carl Peecher
Reflections on Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Karyl Newman
About Llano

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Milt Stark
Reflections on Job Harriman (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Norman Klein
California as a Laboratory for Socialism in the 1900s (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Cindy Rehm
Excerpts from: The Peacemaker, part III of Feminism and the Trend Towards Democracy, The Western Comrade, February, 1914, Eleanor Wentworth

Norman Klein
California as a Laboratory for Socialism in the 1900s (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Milt Stark
History of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Elizabeth Leister
Excerpts from: Silence of Desert Reigns in Capital of Communists, The Evening Independent, October 12, 1925.

Norman Klein
California as a Laboratory for Socialism in the 1900s (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Carl Peecher
Reflections on Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Milt Stark
Reflections on Job Harriman (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Norman Klein
California as a Laboratory for Socialism in the 1900s (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Elizabeth Leister
Excerpts from: Silence of Desert Reigns in Capital of Communists, The Evening Independent, October 12, 1925.

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Karyl Newman
About Llano

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from, Another Look at Llano, SCA Proceedings, Volume 23, 2009, John M. Foster, California Department of Transportation & Alex Kirkish, Greenwood Associates

Karyl Newman
About Llano

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from, Another Look at Llano, SCA Proceedings, Volume 23, 2009, John M. Foster, California Department of Transportation & Alex Kirkish, Greenwood Associates

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Elizabeth Leister
Excerpts from: Silence of Desert Reigns in Capital of Communists, The Evening Independent, October 12, 1925

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from, Another Look at Llano, SCA Proceedings, Volume 23, 2009, John M. Foster, California Department of Transportation & Alex Kirkish, Greenwood Associates

Karyl Newman
Excepts from: The Next Step; How to Plan for Beauty, Comfort, and Peace with Great Savings Effected by the Reduction of Waste 1935, Alice Constance Austin

Rachel Finkelstein
Excerpts from Two Utopian Feminists and Their Campaign for Kitchenless Houses, Signs, 1978, Dolores Hayden (read by Sacha Finn)

Karyl Newman
Carrot

Elizabeth Leister
Excerpts from: Silence of Desert Reigns in Capital of Communists, The Evening Independent, October 12, 1925

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Elizabeth Leister
Excerpts from: Silence of Desert Reigns in Capital of Communists, The Evening Independent, October 12, 1925

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Linda Ravenswood
Llano Essay

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Milt Stark
Tour of Llano (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Sara Fowler
Dehydration Account

Linda Ravenswood
Everything I ever loved is dead

Karyl Newman
About Llano

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Norman Klein
California as a Laboratory for Socialism in the 1900s (outtake interview from Mady Schutzman’s Dear Comrade)

Christine Suarez
Excerpts from: LLano Del Rio Cooperative Colony l914-l918: Remains of Utopia: How a Renowned Socialist Commune Bloomed and Faded
May 28, 1989, LA Times, Sebastian Rotella

Jennifer from JC Penny
Silo Recording, field test and recording conducted by formulating infrasonic catalytic-cycles for habitat elucidation. (September 4, 2013 - 7:30am)
Dream Kiss performed by Ferera and Franchini with Nathan Glantz; recorded 1920

Karyl Newman
Interview with architect Julia Wieger and Mady Schutzman

Cindy Rehm
To the Woman in the Dark, The Western Comrade, July 1914 Eleanor Wentworth

Jennifer from JC Penny
“It was not only flowers she had on her mind” Graffiti text on the Llano site ruins. Includes Llano Field Recordings obtained by Jennifer from JCPenney (June 3, 2089 - 11:10pm and June 3, 2114 - 2:11pm)


Friday, November 1, 2013

VOLLEY

                                                                                            image by Hinterculture
Four weeks of artist talks, screenings, and performances
...and some ping-pong in between

Screening of Mady Schutzman's Dear Comrade
with research on Llano Del Rio presented 
by Craftswoman House & Hinterculture
Thursday, November 7, 7pm
Greene Gallery
2654 La Cienega Ave, 
Los Angeles, California 90034


Written and directed by CalArts faculty member Mady Schutzman, Dear Comrade is an experimental essay film that documents the story of Llano del Rio (1914-18), the most important non-religious communitarian experiment in western American history. Llano is offered as a site to explore the struggles, courage, frustrations, fantasies, and Sisyphean efforts of innumerable idealists who have assumed comparable struggles in spite of tremendous odds. The story is told through archival footage, surreal re-enactments, interviews with ex-colonists, local residents and historians, and the meanderings of a silent nomad through the ruins of the Llano colony in the Mojave Desert. Through the intersection of stories, a seemingly traditional documentary morphs into a montage of parallel universes, political commentary, clownery, and a palpable desire—failings and disappointments notwithstanding—to give idealism and cooperation another try. Karyl Newman and Cindy Rehm will present their research on the colony and join the filmmaker in a question and answer segment following the screening.