Susan, aka 3D, began her thru-hike on April 17th and is now near Deep Creek Hot Springs in Apple Valley, CA. Using the trail as a nomadic studio, and her experiences as inspiration and medium, she is creating digital works—photos, videos, and 3D files—periodically sending them to a series of West Coast museums and art centers. There they are being printed, projected, and installed, evolving into cumulative exhibitions. We asked Jordan Howland of 4culture.org about the project.
What is Wild? Where is Wild? Are you Wild?
Artist Susan Robb’s work is an ongoing investigation of people, place, and our search for utopia. She orchestrates temporary, site responsive, and socially engaged projects to transform contemporary concerns—climate crisis, social isolation, high-speed daily living—into opportunities to re-envision and re-connect.
Her latest initiative, Wild Times, merges new media, social engagement, and 2,650 miles on the PCT as an invitation to explore wildness as a geographic ideal and a state of mind.
Why wildness? Only 3% of the contiguous United States is still considered protected wild space. As our culture increasingly pressures us to maintain a personal “brand,” be in constant contact, and snapchat every moment, maybe it’s not just our geographic wild spaces that are endangered, but our internal wild spaces as well.
Wild Times at Grand Central Art Center
Through Wild Times, she is offering her body and work as a conduit between gallery and wilderness, public and trail, form and formless, and as a way to cultivate the wild terrain that resides in us all.
Visit an exhibition, sign up for a workshop, immerse yourself in the stories of everyday explorers, hack your wild, and follow Susan’s journey via her transmissions from the trail.
Visit the Wild Times host venues
- Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
- May 3 – October 5, 2014
- Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
- April 17 – June 22, 2014
- 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
- May 21 – June 11, 2014
- Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- May 10, 2014 – Fall 2015
- Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- May 12 – September 21, 2014
- Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
- May 10 and May 31, 2014
Follow Susan Robb on the web
www.wildtimesproject.com
www.susanrobb.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wildtimesproject
Instagram: Susan Robb
Twitter: Susan_Robb
Susan, day 1