HOMEBODIES, AWAY TEAMS This show was made possible is a two-part group show spanning by the generosity of many Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, individuals and institutions. We organized by L.A.-based artist would like to extend our thanks duo Earl Gravy. The show features to all the artists who shared their sculpture, video installation and work with us; to Jared Stefensen performance that explores the and UMOCA; Jodi Graham and numinous, the revelatory and the Utah Humanities; the Monticello cryptic as avenues for non-rational Welcome Center; the Monticello inquiry. At the project’s core is Earl Peace Tree Cafe; the Utah Gravy’s research into a premillennial Museum of Fine Arts; Utah State spiritual commune established in Archives; The Communal Studies southeast Utah in 1934. Association; The Westerner’s Society; Steve Gallenson, and Participating artists across both countless others along the way. shows include: Bridget Batch, Ana Weider Blank, Scott Benzel, We would like to say a special Dan Bustillo, Joey Cannizzaro, THANK YOU to Sue Halliday for her Christopher Cole, Nathaniel kindness, openness, and energy-- Cummings-Lambert, Audrey always--and to Doug Gerstner--may Davies, Cara Despain, Luke your glass be ever full, and may Forsyth, Earl Gravy, Maya Gurantz, we all meet in heaven half an hour Institute for New Feeling, Lazaros, before the devil knows we’re dead. Grace Ndiritu, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Phillip Andrew Lewis + Michael Robinson, Kevin Alan Swenson, Jack Sabat + Sam Stringer, with text contributions from Travis Diehl, Peter Hong, and Adriana Widdoes. Homebodies, Away Teams was conceived of and curated by Earl The Utah Museum of Contemporary Gravy, the ongoing collaboration Art, Salt Lake City: Jan 26 through between Emma Kemp and Daniel May 12, 2018. Wroe. 3 by a century, inverts the dilemma. considered normal, with an eye seeing. If we follow the trajectory MOONSHOT THINKING & In her book The Mirror of Simple towards organ preservation for of this thought, we might conclude Souls, which personifes Reason, donation-transplantation) and that such drastic straining to see UNHOLY ALLIANCES Love and the Soul and sets them cryonics (the study of biological beyond, around, further than what 1. in dialogue with one another, material at temperatures below is visible stresses the body so that Marguerite writes: “‘Ah, Reason,’ what is considered normal with it beams back a scrambled image, It began with a rope of dead says Love, ‘you’ll always be one- an eye towards preserving whole an encoded fatality. Could this dogs, one after the other every eyed (half-blind).’ For, to be sure, biological systems for future explain why Simone Weil sought to few hundred feet, quiet as one has faulty vision who sees medical intervention). The diference cut out her vision entirely and place sandcastles along a twenty mile things before his eyes and does is slight but vast: what it comes it beside her: “If only I could see a stretch of highway between Bluf not understand them at all.”1 For down to is distance. How far into landscape as it is when I am not and Blanding. What sense can you Marguerite, an inability to see the tunnel is one willing to focus her there.”3 She wanted her self to get make of it—ears, paws, tails fung beyond what is looked upon is fashlight? out of the way. like breadcrumbs from a moving symptomatic of ocular dystrophy, This disparity in focal You might say she succeeded, truck. I was not understanding. My a disease sufered by rational length explains why so many starving her body right out of the eyes, I thought, must be faulty. empiricists.2 cryobiologists resent cryologists. frame. There is a long, well But what about speculative The institutionalized scientifc In other instances, it is neither documented history of laying blame vision, that which is not seen by acadame (cryobiology) does not the body nor mind that impedes to a faulty body when it comes to looking but envisaged from within? put steed in that which it cannot a unique panorama. Consider outrageous vision. Cézanne, who A seeing which spans time and confdently see or imagine, this chunk of audio transcription painted ceaselessly every day often outrageous distances. The and therefore cannot yet test. from the fight recorder aboard of his life, wondered at the end stock market, for example, relies Cryologists, on the other hand, Apollo 11. Commander Neil whether his emblematic style might on such lengthy projection, a sort are making a wager in the present Armstrong, on his way to the be little more than the result of poor of psychic capitalism in which whose uncertain terms extend moon, is marveling at his newfound eyesight; whether his whole life had traders foresee relative margins 100 to 150 years into the future perspective: been built upon a bodily faw. with a clairvoyancy denied to (cryologists’ estimated timeline for And, Houston, you, might be Interrogating Joan of Arc in the consumers. viable patient recovery). They’re interested that out my left-hand Ornament Hall of the Castle of Or consider the diference playing the long game. window right now, I can observe Rouen, a physician-assessor between two associated felds the entire continent of North probed her dietary habits (one of research: that of cryobiology What dangers arise should America, Alaska, and over the meal a day, bread soaked in (the study of biological material we peek too far, too long? The Pole, down to the Yucatan wine), implying that her rapturous at temperatures below what is medieval understanding about Peninsula, Cuba, northern part visitations were the result of how vision happens articulates an of South America, and then I nutritional abstinence. 1 Porite, Marguerite;The Mirror of Simple inherent fatality: put simply, that run out of window. Marguerite Porete, a 13th- Souls, Chapter 43, p122. Paulist Press, something in the eye is changed “…And then I run out of (November 1, 1993) century French mystic, whose into what is seen, and therefore window.” execution by fre precedes Joan’s 2 See Anne Carson’s Decreation for ex- something in the eye “dies” in tended discussion. 3 Weil, Simone; Gravity and Grace, (2002) 5 Armstrong and his crew, traveling newspaper4 and recruited a band in science and medicine were of Organisms” produced in 1940.8 over 2000 miles per hour, are of homesteaders. Her commune raising questions as to the fnitude The digitized flm made the rounds peering down at something familiar provided a spiritual sanctuary to a of the human lifespan. As early on Youtube a few years ago, briefy from a very strange perspective. community of believers from around as 1813, physicians in Europe attaining viral status for its uncanny Their eyes are hungry for it—so the country who came together were considering the possibility of narration as Brukhonenko and his much at once! And then the rigid seeking eternal life. Spiritualism, “extracorporeal circulation” on the team reanimate the severed head frame of human construction re- in its purest sense, is just that: human body6 (experimenting with of a dog before reviving completely exerts itself. It severs the seeing, “The science, philosophy, and techniques to circulate oxygenated a second animal after its clinical just like that. religion of continuous life, based blood after clinical death) so that by death. Marie Ogden was a keen A visionary woman (whose upon the demonstrated fact of 1895, a Strasbourgian physician, observer of such biomedical special seeing came to an abrupt communication, by means of Johann Carl Jacobj, had engineered developments. In her writings she and unfortunate end) led me to mediumship, with those who live a perfusion apparatus employing would cite mammalian studies of Utah almost three years ago, to a in the spirit world.”5 At the turn of canine lungs or the pulmonary resuscitation or reprint articles of parcel of land at the juncture where the 20th century, the spiritualist lobes of bovine as oxygenators.7 A drowning victims returned to health. four states meet. This woman movement was anchoring itself riveting breakthrough occurred in Her theosophy, as it developed, established a homestead and across the U.S. and Europe. 1926, when Russian cardiologist promoted a blend of spiritual and activated a community of believers, The formation of the National Sergei Sergeevich Brukhonenko scientifc thinking, a proto-New Age housing them in roughhewn cabins Spiritualist Association in 1893; designed a temporal, extracorporeal ideology. that radiated from inner to outer in Madame Helena P. Blavatsky’s circulation device (he named it concentric “portals.” Marie Margaret comprehensive writings (Isis the “autojector”) to support life The aftermath of World War Ogden (née Schneider) was her Unveiled, 1877, and The Secret while the heart was intentionally I, resulting in bereaved masses name and in 1933 she loaded a Doctrine, 1888), along with the stopped in order to allow the desiring to commune with their small luggage crate into the back of founding of the Theosophical repair of pulmonary injury. (The dead, also spurred spiritualism’s her Ford T-Model, locked the front Society (which, in notable contrast contemporary cryogenics increased popularity in the door of her New Jersey dwelling to the mainstream Spiritualist movement would argue that they early 1900s. The rise in female and rumbled west. movement, professed a belief are simply taking this idea to its practitioners (a demographic Marie arrived in Monticello, a in reincarnation) undoubtedly logical conclusion.) You have shift peaking in the mid-to-late rugged chunk of desert land in consummated its visibility in quite possibly viewed one of twentieth century) appears to San Juan County, southeastern mainstream society, but there Brukhonenko’s later experiments correlate with socio-political Utah, on 28th September 1933 were broader catalysts behind the in the form of a 19-minute video needs: the practice fourished as after witnessing the landscape phenomena gaining momentum clip, “Experiments in the Revival a vector of female authority not in a premonitory vision.