Media Art Net | Ant Farm: Cadillac Ranch Show

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Ant Farm, «Cadillac Ranch Show», 1974
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Categories: Action

Keywords: Consumer Culture | Politics

Relevant passages:

Inke Arns «Social Technologies Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»

Works by Ant Farm:

Media Burn

Check as well:

Chip Lord

United States | 25' | Concept: Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez, Doug Michels | Participants: Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Stanley Marsh III | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe

Ant Farm
«Cadillac Ranch Show»

In 1974, Chip Lord, Doug Hall, and fellow Ant Farmers buried ten Cadillacs in a Texas wheat field, calling the public sculpture «Cadillac Ranch». Personal obsession with cars and an understanding of the automobile as an American symbol of technological progress and speed underlie this collaborative sculpture/public spectacle/media event.

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