Voice: Dr. Curtis Howe Springer of Zzyzx Mineral Springs

This is an audio track from The Mojave Project—an experimental transmedia documentary led by Kim Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert.

Project website: mojaveproject.org

Funding for The Mojave Project is provided through a California Humanities 2015 California Documentary Project production grant with additional support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and San Diego State University. The Mojave Project is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Program. LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), MOAH (Museum of Art & History), The Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association and KCET Artbound are project partners.

This track courtesy of the CSU Desert Studies Center.

Dr. Curtis Howe Springer, July 25, 1961

Morning soundscape recording made at the Wee Thump Wilderness, April 2020.  Wee Thump (in Paiute language meaning "ancient ones") is a desert forest of old-growth Joshua Trees located a few miles west of Searchlight, Nevada.  The featured birds in this recording are Great-horned Owls, Brewer's Sparrows and Cactus Wrens.

Wee Thump At Dawn

Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, CA. Her work bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She is a 2016 Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Stringfellow is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design.

Dr. Curtis Howe Springer, July 25, 1961

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