Chip Lord Presents Ant Farm and Beyond

Admission Free

Co-founder of Ant Farm, Chip Lord will show the group's work from 1971 through 1978, when the group was disbanded. Ant Farm tapes include:

Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes
Composite clips from the first year with video, when the medium was a diary of the group process.
• (1971, 6 mins)

Four More Years (excerpt)
Shot at the Republican Convention by Ant Farmers working with the late documentary collective TVTV.
• (1972, 4 mins)

The Cadillac Ranch Show
An extended document of the making of the Cadillac Ranch, Ant Farm's monumental Texas roadside sculpture.
• (1971, new edit 1980, 14 mins)

Media Burn
The classic tape of the Ant Farm's July 4th TV destruction/media event.
• (Edited for television 1975, new edit 1980, 16 mins)

The Eternal Frame
Cross-media study featuring a reenactment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, shot in Dallas with an all-artist crew.
• (1975, 22 mins, with T.R. Uthco)

YVR: Arrival/Departure
A recent work by Chip Lord, in which the Executive Air Traveler visits Vancouver, a contemporary cultural document produced while Lord was Artist-in-Residence at the Western Front, Vancouver.
• (1979, 13 mins)

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