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MOAH : FREE ENTERPRISE

260 views · Published 10 August 2013 · 3:27 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2013 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Chris Waters.

MOAH is proud to celebrate our rich aerospace heritage by opening the galleries to this pioneering art movement. The exhibit highlights: The Arts Catalyst (London, U.K.), Lowry Burgess (Pittsburgh, PA), Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA), Richard Clar (Paris, France/Los Angeles, CA), Skeith De Wine (Santa Ana, CA), Kitsou Dubois (Paris, France), Final Frontier Design (New York, NY), MIR - Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research (international participants), Forrest Myers (New York, NY), Carrie Paterson (Los Angeles, CA), Connie Samaras (Los Angeles, CA). Finally, our local citizens in space, XCOR Aerospace, Inc. (Mojave, CA), will install a full scale working rocket and other displays inside the museum.

Continuing with the theme of space and flight, Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd will perform the typing of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff on the original typewriter used to write the book.  Youd's performance involves typing the novel on a single page run through the machine repeatedly, thereby embedding the entire manuscript into one sheet. The novel concerns NASA's first seven astronauts selected for space travel, known as the "Mercury Seven," and other test pilots working with high speed rocket-powered aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, known as Muroc Army Airfield at the time. Wolfe relied on his extensive research into the astronauts' and test pilots' lives, documenting why they would risk everything for such a dangerous and untested occupation. 

Youd travels the world, performing various works in locales geographically related to either the author's life or the plot of the novel, making Youd's choice of The Right Stuff perfect for the Antelope Valley and a smart companion to the Free Enterprise exhibit. Youd performs at MOAH during the opening reception Saturday, August 3rd from 4 to 6 p.m. Additional performances are scheduled for: August 4th through August 11th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on August 15, 22, 29, September 26 and October 3, 10. 

MOAH will also display Dog Fight, an installation featuring Los Angeles-based artist Jorg Dubin's sculptures from his Corporate Jet Series.  Constructed from sheet metal, Dubin captures the form and structure of military aircraft and finishes the surfaces with corporate logos from the high-end fashion and automobile industries. For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website :www.thuvanarts.com

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