Desert X

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Dates: February 9 – April 21
Preview days: February 7 and 8
Artistic director: Neville Wakefield
Co-curators: Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum
Visiting address: Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, California
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CIMAM Members are invited to attend Desert X preview (February 7 and 8) and Grand Opening (February 8).

Please contact Laura Watts laura@desertx.org to attend the preview days and to RSVP to Desert X Grand Opening taking place on Friday February 8 from 5 to 7:30 PM. Private tours are available upon request, to arrange a docent-led visit of the installations contact Laura Watts.

Desert X offers 10% discount at the bookshop to CIMAM Members.

About Desert X 2019

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Free and open to the public, the recurring international contemporary art exhibition will activate the desert landscape through nineteen site-specific installations and performances by some of today’s most recognized international contemporary artists, including:

Iván Argote, Steve Badgett & Chris Taylor, Nancy Baker Cahill, Cecilia Bengolea, Pia Camil, John Gerrard, Julian Hoeber, Jenny Holzer, Iman Issa, Mary Kelly, Armando Lerma, Eric N. Mack, Cinthia Marcelle, Postcommodity, Cara Romero, Sterling Ruby, Kathleen Ryan, Gary Simmons and Superflex.

The exhibition will explore ideas of site-specificity, the frame of post-institutional art and the interactive possibilities that attend it. Desert X 2019 will add film projects and evolving, process-driven works to its presentation, which will span fifty miles across the Coachella Valley and beyond, expanding to the south to explore the ecological bellwether of the Salton Sea, and further across the border into Mexico.