Anders Paulin and Johan Forsman, walking.

Thousand Points of Light hosts Swedish based artists Anders Paulin and Johan Forsman, holding a research based residency as part of Three White Soldiers,a durational project produced over 3 years. Three White Soldiers operates in an oscillating field between algorithmic High Frequency Trading (aka Black Box Trading) and Shamanic practices, as a vehicle for exploring financial, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of time/spaces not accessible to human perception. The project will manifest as a series of performative symposiums in continuous transformation, shifting shape as Three White Soldiers engages new material and guest participants.

In March 2014, the project set out on a series of Pilgrimages. Beginning in Los Angeles and then Joshua Tree, CA with a residency at Thousand Points of Light,the project approached the desert as an expansive site to consider the concepts of the spiritual aspects of time/spaces and to develop material within the local community. Three White Soldiers then traveled toNew York and the artists walked from Wall Street to Mahwah, NJ, where the "super computers" used in High Frequency Trading are housed. This act physically traced on foot, in human scale, the path of trillions of units of information that operates on a scale beyond immediate human perception, simultaneously massive and minuscule. As in all true pilgrimages, the real objective of the journey lies less in the proclaimed image of the end goal, but rather in the impalpable and spiritual material gathered along the way.

Three White Soldiersis produced by Skogen in Gothenburg. The project is part of EU- collaborations with BADco (Zagreb), Maska (Belgrade), Walking Theory (Ljubjana) and Science Communications Research (Vienna). Each working period will culminate in an event that explores alternative perspectives on performance as interface between theatre, research, presentation, artist and audience.

During their residency, Paulin and Forsman conducted interviews with local residents including a healer in Joshua Tree who works with sound and channeling.

Transcription from a shamanic “Sounding” session

with Sounder, Charlyn:

She says -

1
We´re one multiverse
the economy is everywhere
We´re not the only life form
There are so many relationships

So, think galacticly, act locally
Be kind to the body
And hydrate
and don´t hydrate in plastic

How do we stay relational?

How do we stay human
in such a time
where there is so much pressure
to conform into something
that is not human?

They make us more machine-like everyday

In your quest of economics
the earth is the first economy
Connect with people
Keep doing what you´re doing

2
It is about taking care of being connected
with the divine, with the mother, with your body
Taking care being connected with humans

We get really in a hurry
then we can betray human relationship
we make other things more important

What don´t we see?
We need to see the other
and believe what the other is saying and feel them

All the rest is the loss of empathy and critical thinking becomes an oppositional disorder
What we don´t see is how we´re being used What does it take to be authentic and sovereign?

We stop seing what our truth is
it gets obscured in all the other voices
That´s why the nature, going to the desert
That´s what makes us human
the opportunity to connect to the earth

So, what does make us feel normal truly at ease, at home? What creates home?
We forget so fast. There is so many pressures for the forgetting so more support for the remembering.

Talk to people in transition. Do the human thing Drink enough water Feed yourself Take care of the vehicle. Make sure your life is sustainable. Martyrdom in the new paradigm is out. Stay human.

3
Think in patterns
track the sky
Use aspects
to see how it unfolds
try that
Start checking out astrology
Go to the sky

And sound healing
There is a 528 hz chime that is pretty wonderful
That might be something
It resonates with the note F in the heart
It is fabulous
We could share that with you
We can make one for your project

You obviously need to hear it
It is already in order

Remember to drink water
Are there any trees where you go?
Good
Hug them

Per Platou is an artist, musician and curator living in Oslo.  He is Director of PNEK (Production network for Electronic Art, Norway).  He is also runs Videokunstarkivet, Norwegian video art archive.

Shifting his practice towards the mechanical and hand made for his residency with TPL, Platou designed and constructed a kinetic sound sculpture that uses wind to move a bird quill pick on a circular axis, playing three acoustic guitars each strung with a single note. The wind determines the speed at which the tree notes are struck, D, E and A are played.

"The guitars have congregated in conversation. We wait in anticipation to hear them. They speak a language we cannot know, called on by the wind.” -Kiloo

Special Thanks to Kyp Fjeld for all of his expertise.

CAAST came to the desert from Denmark to make a dance. Together with Chiara Giovando, CAAST made a series of excursions and films in various landscapes surrounding the TPL residency house.

there will be considered dancing.

there will be visited a swedenborgian society

there will be made films

there will be look at it

there will be a days of no talking

there will be soft scandinavian rnb music

there will be acustics there will be devices

what you want to be? chiffon?

you are the sun!

video links: https://vimeo.com/114193637

#01 / 3/21/14
Music
Village of Spaces
Ezra Buchla
Ruth Garbus & Julia Tadlock
MANKIND / replacing VOLVE
Henry Barnes (Amps For Christ)

#02 / 4/19/14
Reception
"Deserted Guitars",
kinetic sound sculpture by
Per Platou

#03 / 5/17 - 7/18/14 Exhibition
The Third Ear
Hosted by FOCA, Los Angeles
Group exhibition with:
Jules Gimbrone
Chiara Giovando
Mette Hersoug
Alison O'Daniel
John Wiese

#04 / 9/21/14
Father Murphy is the sound of the Catholic sense of Guilt.
A downward spiral aiming at the bottom of the hollow, and then digging even deeper.
After having furiously performed all over Europe, toured North America with Deerhoof, Dirty Beaches and Xiu Xiu, been praised by the Archdruid Julian Cope, among lots of others, the latest installment of their unique sonic saga was a concept EP on Failure; like the previous record (“Anyway, your children will deny it” among the best 50 albums of 2012 for Rock-a-Rolla Magazine) the new piece was mixed and produced by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier.
A new album, Croce (Italian for Cross), recorded by Deerhoof's John Dieterich in New Mexico during the band extensive 2014 US tours, and mixed again by Greg Saunier, will then be released next March by The Flenser.
Father Murphy, with four albums and a plethora of EPs and limited releases, over the years became one of the most mysterious and enigmatic musical entities coming out of Italy, part of that community that Simon Reynolds started to call the new “Italian Occult Psychedelia”.

Let The Wrong Rise With You - Father Murphy

#05 / May 23 - 25, 2015
OUTSIDE MUSEUM, A Temporary Museum in the Desert
Dan Anderson, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Aimee Goguen, Kate Hall, Lonnie Holley, Johanna Jackson, Daniel Long, Mississippi Records, Dina No, Publication Studio, Richart, Katelyn Reeves, Kyle Simon, Angie Terry, Andrea Zittel, Vanesa Zendejas

THE OUTSIDE MUSEUM brings together the artist-run project space, Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA) and Thousand Points of Light (TPL), an artist residency in Joshua Tree CA, to make a temporary outdoor museum in the desert. Comprised of works from the PMOMA collection and invited artists THE OUTSIDE MUSEUM will consist of a modular exhibition display structure designed by Neil Doshi – acting simultaneously as interior and exterior, the structure will work both as a frame and as an object pointing to the vast frame of the Mojave Desert. This exhibition also pulls from the ethos of the PMOMA experiment, one of many in a long line of investigations into ideas surrounding institution and the notion of the museum itself.

Curated by Chiara Giovando & Libby Werbel
Exhibition design by Neil Doshi
Museum bar & cafe by Squatters