It began with a rope of dead dogs; one after the other every few hundred feet, quiet as sandcastles along a twenty mile stretch of highway between Bluff and Blanding. We were in Southeast Utah to study a parcel of land at the juncture where four states meet; where a women had built a home and activated a community of one-hundred, housing them in roughhewn cabins that radiated from inner to outer portals...

HOMEBODIES, AWAY TEAMS is a two-fold event spanning Los Angeles (Blue Roof, Oct 21, 2017) and Salt Lake City (UMOCA, Jan 26--May 12, 2018), whose iterations are not identical but engage in complimentary exchange.

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Participants across both events include:
Bridget Batch
Patrick Ballard
Ana Weider Blank
Scott Benzel
Dan Bustillo
Joey Cannizzaro + Christopher Cole
Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert
Audrey Davies
Cara Despain
Luke Forsyth
Earl Gravy
Maya Gurantz
Institute for New Feeling
Lazaros
Phillip Andrew Lewis
Grace Ndiritu
João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
Michael Robinson
Kevin Alan Swenson


Initiated by Earl Gravy; Curated by Earl Gravy

*Juha Varto in Basics of Artistic Research, 2012

2017