Gravy and the commune were here in L.A., before decamping for New York. It was headed by Hugh Romney (née Wavy Gravy). The Hog Farm was a commune located in the hills above Sunland, a town in the far north of the San Fernando Valley. Inside I was surprised when I found an article called "High On the Hog Farm." Current day "New Yorker" art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote it. In 2004, digging in a used bookstore, I came across issue 5 of "Avante Garde Magazine," from 1968. | Photo: Julian Wasser, Caption: Peter Schjeldahl.
Spread from Avante Garde issue 5, page 44, 1968. Cheap, strong geodesic domes draped with parachute silk, like the one at right, are the favored Hog Farm architectural motif. Here its citizens assemble for a town meeting en plein air. The Hog Farm, maybe the grooviest hippe kibbutz in existence, sits surrounded by a stupendous mountain landscape in Southern California. At New Buffalo part of the excavation involved unearthing stories from the community of New Buffalo around Taos, about the stuff found. Two of the more well-known examples of this form of archaeology puts it into perspective: one involved a "dig" in a Ford Transit van the other involved the study of a somebody's living room mantel. You get folks from a certain generation to tell stories by looking at older stuff. She explained how her métier, like ballet, is an activity you "do." And particularly in regards to archeology of the contemporary past, what you're really doing, according to Danis is a form of social practice art (appropriately she also participates in a site specific performance collective called Alamo LAbs). Playing off the two A's in archaeology it spelled out ARCHAEOLOGY AS ART. In her presentation she focused on stories and speculations around unearthed condoms, birth control pills, and lotion for the treatment the "hippie bug" - scabies.ĭanis also shared a slide picturing an acrostic. Danis' area of study on the dig was medical waste. They did however find a potsherd with the word "love" inscribed in it. It was also the inspiration for the commune represented in the film "Easy Rider." According to Danis, the artifact they all secretly hoped to find was a stale dirt-laden joint. That commune was relatively well known for its "goin' native" take on the back-to-the-earth movement. The dig, directed by Kaet Heupel of Columbia University, is on the lands of New Buffalo. Danis discussed hippie trash, literally stuff she and her peers had dug up from a late 60s early 1970s midden, collapsed pit house, and hippie-teepee on a commune site in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (just north of Taos).
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Last week, Machine Project hosted a presentation by twenty-something archaeologist Annie Danis one in a series of talks she's coordinating about archeology from the contemporary past. Spread from Avante Garde issue 5, page 45, 1968. Moo-sic to My Ears (Moo-sic to My Ears, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, All's Fair in Fairs and Mud and Do You Hear, What I Hear?) (2003)Īnchor Bay Entertainment U.K.Founding Father Hugh Romney, 32, who in his capacity of Commissioner of Talk speaks for the whole hog, frolics with the commune's Prime Minister, Pigasis.Moo-sic to My Ears (Moo-sic to My Ears, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and All's Fair in Fairs and Mud) (2003)ĭVD The Incredible World of DIC Home Entertainment.The Incredible World of DIC Home Entertainment Old MacDonald's Sing-Along Farm Live! (1996).Stay Healthy ( Doctor Time and What Moo-tiful Teeth) (1996).
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