{"id":31393,"date":"2016-04-26T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:20:03","slug":"nadim-samman-anja-henckel-julian-charriere-julius-von-bismarck-felix-kiessling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/nadim-samman-anja-henckel-julian-charriere-julius-von-bismarck-felix-kiessling\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nWhereas mineral water springs from faucets on the edge of sand dunes, contemporary culture is dedicated to the simulation of a total oasis. And yet, the desert grows.
\nWhereas new days are born in the East, the West is nightly death. In ancient Egyptian myth Amentet \u2013 personification of the latter \u2013 resides in a tree on the edge of the desert and receives souls who have departed from life. Beating a modern literary path across these Western Lands<\/em>, William S. Burroughs catalogued a host of local horrors: poison, snakes, centipedes, spiders, guns and bloodsucking.\u00a0At sunset: the end of the world as we know it. But Amentet \u2013 though Goddess of Death \u2013 is also associated with fertility, and offers new arrivals bread and water. Thus, she supplies travellers with provisions for their onward journey through another life, in the strange new day to come. Likewise, convenience stores, gas stations, and restaurants dispense basic necessities.
\nCelluloid testament of the new day: Desert of the reel. Death, the West, mounted on a white horse and wearing sunglasses, deals law. As the dusty mesa stretches, uninterrupted, as far as the eye can see, nothing checks its stride. The new law pushes in every direction \u2013 touches everything \u2013 and brooks no resistance. Clapboard houses and baby carriages are blown to smithereens and ash: Atomic sunrise; Western dawn, as if the earth now turns in the opposite direction. In this landscape there is no place like home, unless, like the House in the Middle<\/em>, it is tidy inside and out, and painted vibrant white. On this day you may wish to memorialize a loved one who has passed away by scattering their ashes upon the wind. For this you will require a permit and some rules must be observed. Remains must be cremated and pulverized, and should not be distinguishable as such. Nor should they be left in any type of container.
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\nEndless day of the desert: Deserts stand magically \u2018free of time\u2019 as \u2013 according to J.G Ballard \u2013 they have \u2018exhausted their own futures\u2019. Now they belong to human afterlife. The modern conjuring trick performed in every Atrocity Exhibition<\/em> renders the Storex Sedan Crater on Yucca flat, created during one of the Operation Plowshare atomic tests, near indistinguishable from Canyon Diablo \u2013 the result of a meteorite impact that rocked the Western plain with the energy of more than 20 million tons of TNT. This anti-miracle is repeated until you believe it, as though it was never otherwise. In the museum of the desert our contemporary culture is for all time<\/em>, like a footprint on the moon.
\nTripping highways and dust, on the road<\/em>, those who cross the desert encounter mirages and chimeras \u2018surpassing all conception.\u2019 Near the horizon lies a \u2018Town that Never Was\u2019. Off the asphalt, after the multimedia display, accompanied by award winning catering, guest astronauts will talk to you about how even the smallest tasks are complicated by a microgravity environment.
\nThe clearest way into the universe is through a wilderness. But when we try to discern the wild by itself<\/em> \u2018we find it hitched to everything else.\u2019 Burning rubber, electric motors and aeroplanes are entangled with granite and cacti. Fossils run through fuel pumps; the \u2018natural\u2019 is cultivated by legal instruments, taxonomies and monopolies of power. The prophets of conservation are also the champions of bureaucracy. But to what end? Today, before it can be left alone, the desert must be subject to massive educational access; made an example, with appropriate interpretation. Veneration requires a system of profane interfaces, including wayfinding, PR, crowd control, and risk assessment.
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\nThe desert flows through each of us, and what looks like despoil may be a most fundamental condition. To view the desert traveller as an alien neglects his mineral and thermodynamic composition. Better, consider him a grotesque<\/em> decoration: Of the grotto \u2013 like a stalagmite or salt column. On a geological timescale everything is a confection or ornament. Viewed through the lens of eons, landscapes move like liquid; crystals pass through bloodstreams and bladders. Today\u2019s museum of the Western desert is an image of the fluidity of the contemporary afterlife.
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\nFor more installation views: http:\/\/steveturner.la\/exhibition\/julius-von-bismarck-julian-charriere-felix-kiessling#1 <\/a>
\nAll road trip images courtesy Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charriere and Felix Kiessling, November 2015
\nText by Anja Henckel and Nadim Samman<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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