The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST

$60.00

ANT FARM
Publisher Pioneer Works Press, 2017
SKU S00511

Perhaps best known for the desert monolith “Cadillac Ranch” and stunts like “Media Burn,” the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines. Throughout their career (1968–79), Ant Farm conceived a series of time capsules that focused not on the eternal but rather on the fleeting aspects of postwar American culture: consumer goods, media archives and tchotchkes. For various reasons, all of the time capsules failed to function, that is, to be opened at the allotted future time and the intact contents examined. Ant Farm’s successor group, LST, has taken up the project with their contemporary work “Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]” (2008).

HB / 255pp. / ills colour & bw / English