ANT FARM

Ant Farm was founded in 1968 in San Francisco by Chip Lord and Doug Michels as an alternative architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice, expanded to include Curtis Schreier and, at times, Douglas Hurr and Hudson Marquez. Ant Farm was an innovative countercultural collective working in media and spectacle from the late 1960s through the 1970s.

This is the first exhibition to survey the work of the legendary architecture and art collective, Ant Farm. A group of radical architects who were also video, performance and installation artists — but above all, visionaries and cultural commentators — Ant Farm was founded by Chip Lord and Doug Michels in 1968 amidst the hot-house of San Francisco’s counter-culture…

If there’s one element of architecture the young might rightfully resent, it’s the utter permanence of it all. Not only fixed in place, architecture is fixed in time, an implicit monument to the authority and allure of a moment, by definition, gone by. This fixity was the very thing that, in 1968, the young architects collectively known as Ant Farm would resist…

Chip Lord was trained as an architect and is a media artist who produces both single channel films and video installations.