Hinterculture

Hinterculture is a loose collective of artist/performer collaborators in the high desert Mojave region of Los Angeles County. Hinterculture is high desert art inclined. The history, art, technology and business of the high desert revealed by mining sites for social, cultural & aesthetic meaning.

Members: Larissa Nickel and Karyl Newman

Website: http://www.hinterculture.org

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FAR Bazaar Project

OBVIOUS ANSWERS TO IMPOSSIBLE FUTURES

Description: The desert is a space of theorizing. Hinterculture's "Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures" connects the oppositional past of high desert sites such as Llano del Rio with audio visual forms of critical resistance and capitalist reflections in the present, to create spaces of opportunity where the future can continuously unfold and be imagined differently—where the desert moves beyond the limits and confines of marginalized Los Angeles, binaries of utopia and dystopia, and territories of Earth and outer space.

"Spaces can be real and imagined. Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories. Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice."

—bell hooks, "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness."

Location: FA64C

Participating Artists: Larissa Nickel, Stacey Charles Spiegel, and Jones Intercable

Larissa Nickel is an artist, designer, educator, and curator whose work integrates Philosophy, Art, Visual Culture, and Design with an emphasis on identity, narrative place, and subculture. Her research is situated at the intersections of contemporary social and cultural theory, new media, narrative theory, museum studies, architectural & placemaking design, and philosophical issues of memory, aesthetics, and the archive. She founded Hinterculture, an arts collaboration that explores cultural mapping stories in the Mojave desert, and is currently an instructor in the Arts and Humanities Division at Antelope Valley College also serving as the Art Gallery Co-Director. Her work has been shown at the Armory Center for the Arts, For Your Art, Greene Exhibitions, Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, and in numerous public art settings outside galleries and museums. She has published articles as an arts journalist for KCET Artbound, and the peer reviewed ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology. Her projects employ the functions of collection, preservation, interpretation and display, to explore the idea that the heterotopic museum is an active methodology for artistic practice.

Stacey Charles Spiegel is a visual artist, musician and audio-video producer based in Lancaster, California. His record label PeptoTapeworm Productions has released 71 albums on the internet. In 1994 he was a founding member and producer for the performance art project Dzong. In 1997 he and William McLaine Jr. started the experimental band Operation Anal Probe, which released 12 albums and 26 videos. His alias Dj Handiwipe has released 19 albums and 38 videos. He began painting in 2011. He paints in acrylic on streched canvas. He studied under his mentor John Landberg from 2011 through 2014. He currently plays synthesizer for the instrumental band Tone Spewers.

Jones Intercable was a cable company founded by Glenn Jones in 1970. In 1999, the company was acquired by Comcast, who is the current owner of the name “Jones Intercable.” In the Antelope Valley (northeast Los Angeles County) the local cable company later became Adelphia Communications Corporation, then Time Warner Cable and now Charter Spectrum. For Antelope Valley residents, it’s the only source for local televised news at a cost much higher than Jones Intercable. The name was appropriated as an art project aimed at broadcasting audio and video compositions and experiments composed by Antelope Valley residents. In 2015, artist Steven Fiche (with the help of Antelope Valley artist collective We Are Cedar) registered the URL www.jonesintercable.com and brought it back to life as a media company. With a handful of volunteers from the Antelope Valley, we help residents of all ages produce original live performances, short films, music videos and print publications.  In 2014, the city of Lancaster took over the building in which our offices were shared amongst other artists. To this day, Jones Intercable, along with many other long-term art projects in the Antelope Valley, were left scattered and looking for a home.