All of our photos from the journey will be uploaded to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51436883@N05/

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

Knoxville Museum of Art

Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens

Pasaquan Preservation Society

Slotin Folk Art

Ave Maria Grotto

The Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective

Marcia Weber Art Objects

Unclaimed Baggage Center

Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

Workshop Houston

Grrl Action

“In my music I wanted to place myself in the position of a man of fifty thousand years ago, a man who ignores everything about western music and invents a music for himself without any reference, without any discipline, without anything that would prevent him to express himself freely and for his own good pleasure. This is what I wanted to do in my painting too, only with this difference that painting, I know it-western painting of the last few centuries, I know it perfectly well-and I wanted to deliberately forget all about it. . . But I do not know music, and this gave me a certain advantage in my musical experiences. I did not have to make an effort to forget whatever I had to forget”.

- Jean Dubuffet (Llhan Mimaroilu, “Jean Dubuffet: Musical Experiences,” http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp74/Dubuffet.pdf).

Dubuffet’s artistic ambition to pursue an art form that was in fact formless, timeless, and ephemeral propelled him to discover sound as a visual material. His experimentation with exotic instruments and lo-fi recording technologies set the foundation for understanding sound within an outsider art context, and shows how both the marginalized means of perception (listening) and the marginalized members of the art world coexist with the intention of being untamed by tradition and  unchanged by cultural values and “taste”.

Have a listen to Dubuffet @ Ubuweb:

Dubuffet’s Musique Brut and Musical Experimentations

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

Black Mountain College

Hub-Bub

Tartt Gallery

Mark Cline’s Foamhenge/Dinosaur Adventures

Vollis Simpson’s Whirligig Park

Henry Warren’s Shangri-La

Davidson College: The Reverend McKendree Robbins Long’s paintings of the Apocalypse and works by Benjamin Old Folk Davis

Clyde Jones’ Critter Crossing

Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Gardens

Recorded from the depths of an abandoned and forbidden cave in Kingston, New York, this work represents the acoustic potential found within natural environments and the destructive forces of human intervention. Most likely, the caves were  occupied by a cement manufacturer and now contain the immense metal remnants of a once booming industry.  The decayed landscape of the cave is rendered through jumping on collapsed metal shafts, breaking discarded bottles, and intervening in the space with human body and voice.

As Homage to Edith Piaf…

He wore motorbike pants and boots,
 a black leather blazer with an eagle on the back
. His motorbike went like a cannonball
, spreading terror in the entire region…Because everyone knew well how much he loved
 his bitch of a motorbike.