FOP projects study, document, and creatively respond to how the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene (10,000-2.5 million years ago) continues to shape our daily lives and how humans use Pleistoscene-shaped landforms and environments. For documentation of final works and events click on project names below. Process documentation of FOP'S works-in-progress go to "news | repository."
BELOW THE LINE (2010)
In 2010, Friends of the Pleistocene will focus on the Pleistocene Lakes of Utah for a project entitled BELOW THE LINE. For this project we will conduct research and design speculative tools for exploring and dynamically knowing ancient Lake Bonneville.
Our project will take place at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Wendover Complex on the Utah-Nevada border. We will use the journey form to explore and creatively respond to what happens when humans go out into the landscapes of Lake Bonneville prepared to greet the Pleistocene in/from 2010. We will travel the geologic lake line from Wendover to Bonneville salt flats, Utah Lake, Oquirrh Mountains, Sevier Lake, and Antelope Island. As we trace the ancient lake’s strandline, we will study, document, and creatively respond to how humans have used Pleistoscene-shaped landforms and environments.
Look for project updates throughout the spring on the news | repository page.
SITING THE GEOLOGIC (2009)
SITING THE GEOLOGIC is a series of 5 posters created by smudge in the fall of 2009. The posters illustrate the conjuncture of atomic testing/training upon Pleistocene lake beds of Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. See the full series on the smudge website here.
HUMANS PASSING THROUGH THE GEOLOGIC (2008)
HUMANS PASSING THROUGH THE GEOLOGIC is a polaroid re-photography project sited within geologic landscapes across the United States. View the entire series on the project page of the smudge site.
