I guess rockets are in some way new media. The Panamint Launch at Lucky Jim Wash was a site-specific performance that took place during the NATO war against Yugoslavia in 1999. The concept was to launch rockets against a US military installation in the US. When you see the rockets, you will understand it as, well, conceptual. It turns out that China Lake Naval Weapons Station has a kind of soft, poorly defined border for those hiking near its very rural borders - and security forces that are known to make somewhat arbitrary decisions about what constitutes tresspassing - so to this day we are not sure how close we were or if any rockets landed over the border… particularly mine, which went badly off course.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Meiko AndRyu stupid to be on such high art! by Geri Wittig
Maypole: a demonstration of chaos theory by Joel Slayton
Still Life by Mary Jenn
Shoot-Out at Lucky Jim Wash: The (Chinese) Modernist Rocket and other High Flying, High Art Gestures by Benjamin Eakins
Muttnik by Shona Reed
The Lucky Jim Wash - the mixed drink of modern rockety Jan Ekenberg and Lisa Jevbratt (Which really takes me back to that lovely but slightly intoxicated afternoon…)
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Hi Rachel,
I guess rockets are in some way new media. The Panamint Launch at Lucky
Jim Wash was a site-specific performance that took place during the NATO
war against Yugoslavia in 1999. The concept was to launch rockets against
a US military installation in the US. When you see the rockets, you will
understand it as, well, conceptual. It turns out that China Lake Naval
Weapons Station has a kind of soft, poorly defined border for those hiking
near its very rural borders - and security forces that are known to make
somewhat arbitrary decisions about what constitutes tresspassing - so to
this day we are not sure how close we were or if any rockets landed over
the border… particularly mine, which went badly off course.
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/panamint_launch/
Among my favorite performances that day were:
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Meiko AndRyu stupid to be on such high art!
by Geri Wittig
Maypole: a demonstration of chaos theory
by Joel Slayton
Still Life
by Mary Jenn
Shoot-Out at Lucky Jim Wash: The (Chinese) Modernist Rocket and other High
Flying, High Art Gestures
by Benjamin Eakins
Muttnik
by Shona Reed
The Lucky Jim Wash - the mixed drink of modern rockety
Jan Ekenberg and Lisa Jevbratt
(Which really takes me back to that lovely but slightly intoxicated
afternoon…)
and by far my favorite:
Red Boy
by Zoe Slayton
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Rachel Greene wrote:
> hi – can anyone recommend shows, projects or texts relating to the 1990s
> war in Yugoslavia (kosovo, belgrade)? I mean new media stuff. thanks, rachel
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