The AFAAB building on Antioch College’s campus, circa 2020. Image by Leander Johnson.

Punk Preservationists envision reuse for Ant Farm building at Antioch College in Docomomo_US

August 15, 2021 in Publications

In the early spring of 1970 members of radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm, alongside fellow travellers SouthCoast, coordinated a seminar on “inflatables” - plastic, air-inflated buildings - on the Columbia, Maryland campus of Antioch College. Ant Farm, at this date, consisted of recent Yale architecture alum Doug Michels and Tulane architecture alum Chip Lord. SouthCoast members Tom Morey and Pepper Mouser documented the proceedings on the new recording medium of ½ inch format videotape.

From left: Curtis Schreier, Chip Lord, Doug Michels in and around KOHOUTEK: Dollhouse of the Future in the exhibition 2020:Vision, 1973.

Ant Farm’s Visions for 2020: A Wilderness of Tomorrows in Vesper. Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory, Vesper 3: Nella Selva | Wilderness

December 02, 2020 in Publications

Ant Farm’s 1973 20/20 Vision exhibition framed their prognostication of the year 2020 as a synthesis of four key dates – two past (1939 & 1955) and two future (1984 & 2020) – that exemplified in their collaborative imagination the nexus of a century of American culture, ambition, politics, industry, creativity, technological innovation, and (ultimately) dominance and destruction. The exhibition was presented in Texas, the heartland of the US oil industry, during an international fuel crisis brought on by US foreign interventions.

Pioneer Works Journal/Intercourse #5 →

January 15, 2018 in Publications

By curators Liz Flyntz and Gabriel Florenz.

"A new chapter of the legendary art collective unearths time capsules of their legacy"
A photo essay of the exhibition in Pioneer Works' now eponymous magazine - available here.

The Present Is the Form of All Life (The Book)

January 21, 2017 in Publications

Edited by Liz Flyntz, David Everitt Howe. Foreword by Gabriel Florenz. Introduction by Liz Flyntz. Text by Constance M. Lewallen, Steve Seid, Gabriella Giannachi. Interview with members of LST by Rudolf Frieling. Book design by Daniel Kent.

Not exactly a catalog for the eponymous exhibition, The Present Is The Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST includes even more archival content than the exhibition, plus images of the installation, and excerpts collected from the HUQQUH's photo gathering.

The special "artists edition" contains a small USB drive embedded in the cover that contains content from the most recent (and perhaps last?) iteration of the HUQQUH time capsule - thousands of smart phone pictures anonymously donated by Pioneer Works visitors. Impatient purchasers must destroy the cover to get to the time capsule.

Both editions available from DAP and from Pioneer Works Press.