The April 1 Real Spiral Jetty Party

Students of K Stevenson's Class,
Friends and
Visiting Artist Bogdan Achimescu
Picnic at the Spiral Jetty

Misty Walker

Cristen Overbeck

K Stevenson

Vera and Scott Knauer

Briana Bingham

Shinsuke Ito

Evan Carlisle

Bogdan Achimescu

The Real Spiral Jetty is a social sculpture, or a social choreography device if you wish.
It's actual substance is the ant-like human movement it guides.

Spiral Jetty replicates itself through critical, historical, media and educational channels.
We hear about it, we coordinate our response, we hop in our cars and we drive,
moving from the wide network of asphalt-covered highways towards increasingly narrow and bumpy roads,
guided by road signs, memories of previous trips, and downloaded travel directions.
Eventually, these roads lead us towards a place where we have to abandon our cars
and continue as pedestrians, winding our footsteps until we reach the end of the Spiral, we can't go any further.

I am alone at this stage - there is not enough space on the end of the spiral for a group of people.
My companions walking on the same jetty seem within reach,
but I have to follow a spiral road to meet them,
just as I have to spiral back to return to the shores of Salt Lake.

This year the water level is particularly low so one can cheat here and there.
Our planet's climate helps us fulfill our postmodern, detached approaches
by providing dried-out, salty shortcuts to our possible trajectories.

PS:

MiniSpiral and the shore of Salt Lake
october 2002 by Jim and Victoria Edwards, Derek Boshier, Vera and Scott Knauer, Karen S.
photo Scott Knauer

photographs and textby Bogdan Achimescu