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University of California, Santa Barbara

Chancellor: Henry T. Yang

Consortium Representative:
David Marshall
Dean, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts,
2217 Cheadle Hall, College of Letters & Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA93106
dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu

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Featured Program

Dry Immersion 3: Desert Projects

Traditionally depicted as a harsh yet beautiful and timeless landscape, the desert in the 21st century is also a rapidly changing and contested space. As a growing population exerts pressure on California's 25,000 square miles of ultra-arid lands, the desert is pictured simultaneously as the “next frontier of leisure”,” as dumping ground and as refuge of last resort, as unspoiled wilderness and irradiated hinterland, as spiritual, military, technological and artistic test site, as precious irreplaceable resource and as dirt-cheap real estate development opportunity.

On March 6th and 7th, twenty-four artists from seven University of California campuses presented work based on an intensive immersion in the natural and cultural landscapes of southeastern California's upper Mojave and lower Sonoran deserts. Desert Projects is the third part of a series exploring the intersection of two desert ecosystems and the communities bisecting them in California. The works in this project come from the Dry Immersion 2: Roving Symposium project. Co-organized by UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), and held in October 2009, the Dry Immersion Roving Symposium was a four-day, mobile, non-hierarchical gathering of sixty-six artists, educators, and researchers from seven University of California campuses (UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Merced).

Dry Immersion 3: Desert Projects is curated by Dick Hebdige, UC Institute for the Arts Desert Studies Project Director, UCSB; Tyler Stallings, Director, Sweeney Art Gallery, UCR; and Shane Shukis, Assistant Director, Sweeney Art Gallery, UCR and has been generously supported by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), UCIRA Desert Studies. Additional support has come from UCSB Arts & Humanities Dean, City of Riverside, UCR Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at UC Riverside, and the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center.

For more information, please visit http://sweeney.ucr.edu/exhibitions/mappingthedesert/.