16 Jun 2014

Susan Robb's Wild Times

Artist Susan Robb began a thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in April 2014. Using the trail as a nomadic studio, and her experiences as inspiration and medium, she is creating digital works—photos, videos, and 3D files—periodically sending them to a series of West Coast museums and art centers. There they are being printed, projected, and installed, evolving into cumulative exhibitions.

WHAT IS WILD? WHERE IS WILD? ARE YOU WILD?

Robb's work is an ongoing investigation of people, place, and our search for utopia. She orchestrates temporary, site responsive, and socially engaged projects to transform contemporary concerns—climate crisis, social isolation, high-speed daily living—into opportunities to re-envision and re-connect.

Her latest initiative, Wild Times, merges new media, social engagement, and 2,650 miles on the PCT as an invitation to explore wildness as a geographic ideal and a state of mind.

Why wildness? Only 3% of the contiguous United States is still considered protected wild space. As our culture increasingly pressures us to maintain a personal 'brand,' be in constant contact, and snapchat every moment, maybe it's not just our geographic wild spaces that are endangered, but our internal wild spaces as well.

Through Wild Times, she is offering her body and work as a conduit between gallery and wilderness, public and trail, form and formless, and as a way to cultivate the wild terrain that resides in us all.

Visit an exhibition, sign up for a workshop, immerse yourself in the stories of everyday explorers, hack your wild, and follow Susan's journey via her transmissions from the trail.

VISIT WILD TIMES HOST VENUES
• Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
• 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
• Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

FOLLOW WILD TIMES ON THE WEB
www.wildtimesproject.com
www.susanrobb.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wildtimesproject
Twitter: Susan_Robb