Ant Farm (group)

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Ant Farm was a group of visionary architects founded in San Francisco in 1968, who were also video, performance and installation artists.

The founding members were Doug Michels , Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier . Occasionally Douglas Hurr and Hudson Marquez also worked in this group . Her role models were avant-garde architects such as Richard Buckminster Fuller , Paolo Soleri and the British architectural team Archigram .

In 1977, Ant Farm's work was shown at Documenta 6 in Kassel .

Ant Farm broke up in 1978 when a fire destroyed their studio on Pier 40 in San Francisco .

Works

  • Electronic Oasis (1969)
  • Space Cowboy Meets Plastic Businessman (1969)
  • House of Century (1973)
  • Cadillac Ranch (1974) west of the city of Amarillo , Texas on Interstate I-40 along the famous Route 66
  • Media Burn (1975)
  • The Eternal Frame (1975)
  • The Dolphin Embassy (1977)

literature

  • Jennifer Siegal (Ed.): Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture , New York 2002.
  • Lewallen, Constance, Steve Seid, Chip Lord: Ant Farm, 1968–1978 , Berkeley: University of California 2004.
  • Felicity D. Scott: Living Archive 7: Ant Farm , Actar, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-96954-24-3
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

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