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APPROACHING AN EXHANGE: ALBUQUERQUE: BY CLAIRE LONG AND ANNA KELEHER
People, place and things come together in unique configurations to inform and enrich our lives and cultures. Between Sept 25th and Oct 3rd 2009 collaborative artists Claire Long and Anna Keleher hosted five experimental live research events at Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site in the Sandia Ranger District in Cibola National Forest, east of Albuquerque. Their film, “Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor” played out in the University of New Mexico Art Museum, as part of the Dispersal/Return exhibition, linking this site-based project to its roots in England. The footage gathered at Tijeras Pueblo is part of a growing archive of Exchange, which will contribute to future Exchange exhibitions and events. Download the project PDF.

Approaching an Exchange: Albuquerque 

We invite small groups of people to these sites to participate. In preparation we ask them to bring an object or idea that reflects them personally, culturally or professionally to share with the original inhabitants and to identify a gift to offer and a gift to receive in exchange with those people. We can only interpret the past through our present experience and we can perhaps learn about the present through reaching for perceptions of the past. For Dispersal/Return, the Exchange has been relocated to a site near Albuquerque, as an experiment in project transposition and approaching art as research. From these Exchange outings at this new location we will collect visual and audio material which will then feed into the next location through film or another form of this audio-visual archive, connecting the community of Exchange between sites.

 

See additional documentation and learn more about Claire and Anna's work at http://claireandanna.com
images: Claire Long and Anna Keleher

 

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