Wow. It was standing-room-only at the panel “Land Use in Contemporary Art”, organized by University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s Kirsten Swenson - and there appeared to be so little standing room available that people in the back kept leaning on the light switch, cutting the room’s illumination. An apt metaphor for some of the panelists’ explorations of place, unassimilability, discomfort, delay, and technological takeover. Also beautifully poetic was the fact that at least two panelists mentioned sites and projects in rural Nevada - a state whose infrastructure is taking an apocalyptic nosedive. “Everyone in Las Vegas is losing their shirts right now,” an insider confided right before the panel began. To quote fellow Nevadan Dave Hickey, “Quelle fuckin’ surprise.” (more…)
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