THINGS PAGE
March 11, 2025
7-8PM // $5 suggested donation
The Common Well, Garden City
Drone Bath is a sound and video work by Ryan Simmons, who has been engaging with the Boise River through approaching the water as a collaborator. Drone bath is a layered sound environment that translates the rhythms of moving water into musical tones.
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Phase 1 of EGG Observatory show “FIELD WORK” opening at MING Studios on 3/18!
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(Above) Initial Point : The Start of All Land Surveys in Idaho//photo by Uli Westphal
(Below) Exploring from the Initial Point: EGG Observatory Field Studies expedition to Initial Point; Swan Falls Dam; the Snake River Canyon; and the Petroglyph fields on Wees Bar.
All photos by Uli Westphal.
The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory visited these places on a blustery day in November. Field Workers met in Boise and drove to Initial Point, where land surveying in Idaho began. This location is significant; the abstraction of land from itself, and into a cartographic scheme, the grid layer, began in this spot. From this point of initial violence, we observed 360 degrees of Idaho, and imagined the northern stretch reaching all of the way to what is called Canada.
From within this intentionally applied framework, it becomes surprisingly easy to find a remove from layers of imposed meaning that organize Idaho’s view of itself. Place names, landmarks, systems of measurement, surveying markers, the ownership of property, and property itself: these concepts become more fallible and insignificant with each new embodied discovery of detail in a landscape. Combined with zoomed-out whole vistas, observed detail and embodied experience builds a sense of localized reality reflective unto itself and its own native qualities.
Here’s the facilitation framework that was used: CLICK!
Follow this link to the form to add your own observations: CLICK!