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STORIES IN RESERVE volume 1

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Stories in Reserve

2010 Volume 1, 1st edition

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Getting Started 4

Itineraries 6

America PondsSarah Kanouse

DentimundoRicardo Miranda Ziga

Siting Expositions: VancouverRyan Griffis + Lize Mogel + Sarah Ross

Acknowledgments & Resources

CONTENTS

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Welcome.

It has often been said that tourism is the modern realization of a hu-

man urge to be elsewhere. But how does this urge mutate when the

elsewhere becomes the right here, or vice versa?

The more closely we look at the right here, the more we might see the

elsewhere within it. This isnt an appeal to that popular artistic em-

ployment ofseeing things anew - nding the strange in the everyday.

We mean this quite literally. Places may be distinct spatial catego-

ries in our minds, but they are far from materially exclusivetheir

boundaries form overlapping volumes that share varying amounts of

matter and history.

You are holding in your hands the rst in a series of guide books de-

signed for the exploration of this shared matter. In this volume, we

GETTING STARTEDhave commissioned three tours by artists with-

in the territory known as North America. They

will serve as your virtual guides, materialized

in sound. Following them, you may nd your -

self somewhere far away, or in your own back-

yard. In either case, you will be guided throughplaces within places, looking for stories held in

reserve.

Taking these tours can be as dicult, or as easy,

as you like. There are many ways to get there;

your journey may occur on foot, train, bus, au-

tomobile, plane, boat, bicycle, the internet, or,

likely, some combination of these vehicles. We

encourage you to read more about your desti-

nations; a few recommendations are provided

in the Resources section of this book.

Enjoy.Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others

are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like

stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state...

Michel de Certeau

This book is accompa-

nied by three compact

discs containing audio

guides for each of the

three tours included.

It is recommended that

you use a CD player

or download the audio

tracks to your pre-

ferred digital audio

player.

In most cases, tracks

are numbered to cor-

respond to locations

marked on a map.

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ITINERARIES

The following pages contain mate-

rial for three distinct self-guided

audio tours. While each itinerary is

accompanied by a relatively detailed

map with major streets and sites of

interest, this guide book does not

attempt to direct readers with direc-tions to each tour destination... we

cant possibly know where youll be

travelingfrom.

Once at the destinations, the maps

and audio should get you where you

need to go.

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AMERICA PONDS: ANUNOFFICIAL TOUR OF CRABORCHARD NATIONAL WILDLIFE

REFUGE

Sarah Kanouse

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge

lies between the cities of Marion

and Carbondale, just south of Illinois

Route 13 and a little west of Inter-

state 57. The closest major city is

St. Louis, Missouri, about 125 miles

away. Its also an easy day trip, on

the road between Memphis or Nash-

ville and Chicago.

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in the United States.

Rather than concealing Crab Orchards reso-

lutely cultural and political existence, this tour

highlights it. Crab Orchard is a place where

our most romantic feelings about nature col-

lide with the reality of near-total human engi-

neering, where long-forgotten histories are re-

discovered through uncanny coincidence, and

where the peace we feel on the trail is belied by

the wars this place has helped to ght. Travel -

ing here is an invitation to think through com-

plexity, to feel our way through contradiction,

and to come up with a concept more honest

and useful than nature to describe the myriad

ways we exist with and within the non-human

world.

- Sarah Kanouse

Despite the sparkling clarity of Devils Kitchen Lake, the seasonal in-

ux of wintering geese, and the hushed serenity of its wilderness area,

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is anything but unspoiled na-

ture. Located in southernmost Illinois, the Refuge is the result of a

half-century of economic development eorts directed at this sparsely

populated, rural part of the state. Its three lakes were designed and

built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and the Ref-

uge itself was established in 1947 on the site of a shuttered US Army

munitions plant. To help prop up the regions economy, Crab Orchards

mission includes playing host to industrial facilities, and companies

producing everything from highlighters to high-caliber ammunition

have taken up residence in the wildlife refuge. Fifty years of heavy

manufacturing have taken a heavy toll on the place. Since the 1980s,

Crab Orchard has been on the Environmental Protection Agencys Na-

tional Priorities Listbetter known as Superfundwhich outlines and

monitors a clean-up process for the most severely contaminated sites

AUDIO INFORMATION

The audio tracks in

this tour will guide

you through Crab Or-

chard National Wildlife

Refuge.

1. Introduction: Ap-

proaching Crab Orchard

on IL-13 (off map)

2. IL-13 Causeway

3. Spillway Road

4. Ordill

5. Little Grassy Rd.

6. General Dynamics HQ

7. Wildlife Drive

8. Depleted Uranium

9. Wolf Creek Causeway

10. Take Pride in

America

11. Research Park

12. Ash Repository

13. USP Marion

14. Goodbye (off map)

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(left)Illinois Ordnance Plant Administra-

tion Building, 1941. After the war it became

part of Southern Illinois Universitys

Southern Acres veterans housing units.

The building is no longer standing.

Photos: Historical Record Of the Illinois

Ordnance Plant 18 Aug. 1941-31 Dec. 1941,

RG 156 - Records of the Office of the Chief

of Ordnance, National Archive and Records

AdministrationGreat Lakes Region

(below) Wildlife viewing platform at Take

Pride in America Ponds.

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(facing page left) Adver-

tisement for industrial

development at Crab Or-

chard, 1946. Photo: Ordill

(Carbondale, IL), RG 270 -

War Assets Administration

Real Property Disposal

Case Files 1947-1951,

(right) High explosive

storage igloos, 1941. Area

now closed to the public.

Photo: Historical Record

Of the Illinois Ordnance

Plant 18 Aug. 1941-31 Dec.

1941, RG 156 - Records of

the Office of the Chief of

Ordnance, Both images from

the National Archive and

Records Administration

Great Lakes Region

(this page top) Access to

much of Crab Orchards

land on the site of theformer Illinois Ordnance

Plant is restricted.

(bottom) Dilapidated

industrial facilities on

Ogden Road were closed to

the public in 2007.

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DENTIMUNDODENTISTAS EN LA FRONTERA

Ricardo Miranda Ziga

This tour is one incarnation ofDen-

timundo, a multimedia documentary

of the micro economy of dental care

on the US/Mexico border.

You will be guided on a brief walk in

Tijuanas Zona Centro.

If you are coming from the US, it

is recommended that you take the

Mexicoach bus from San Ysidro to the

bus station on Avenida Revolucin.+

Buses cross the border each way

every hour.

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from Mexicali, studied in Mexico City to then

set up his practice in Tijuana where he and his

wife treat patients from as far as Texas, Las Ve-

gas, San Francisco and Los Angeles70-80% of

his patients are U.S. citizens. Throughout the

border region, there is a parallel ow of mi -grants seeking prosperity, some economic and

life-long in the United States, others for dental

hygiene in Mexico.

What decits in the U.S. health system are caus-

ing this outow to Mexico? How do the dentists

on each side of the border view one another?

Where do U.S. citizens prefer to have their

teeth cleaned and why? These are just a few of

the questions that come to mind when consid-

ering the immense quantity of Mexican dentists

along the Mexico/United States border.

- Ricardo Miranda Ziga

El Progresso, Ojinaga, Juarez, Nogales, Mexicali, Tijuana, are all Mexi-

can towns or cities that sit on the edge of the United States. These are

border sites that have established a direct symbiotic relationship with

the U.S. economy by providing a variety of services to U.S. citizenry

and attracting U.S. dollars. One may easily imagine the multitude ofbars, food establishments and the sale of cheap goods that can be

found along many borders, but rmly embedded within the entertain-

ment and consumer economy is a hi-tech, knowledge intensive medical

service that subsidizes the United States health care system. Dentist

clinics are as prominent as three-for-a-dollar tacos, margarita specials

and Mexican ponchos.

According to a dentist in Ojinaga (40 miles south of Marfa, Texas), 90

percent of his clients are U.S. citizens. Dr. Ubaldo Eliaz Paez moved

from Chihuahua, a metropolitan city in Mexico to establish a clinic in a

tiny border town. This clinic prospers due to U.S. mouths and dollars.

Tijuana alone houses approximately 3500 dentists and is popularly

considered a dentist capital of the world. Dr. Felipe Alvarez Olloqui is

AUDIO INFORMATION

This 20 min. audio

track features narra-

tion by Ricardo Miranda

Ziga and interviews

with dentists from the

Mexican border towns of

El Progresso, Ojinaga,

Juarez, Nogales, Mexi-

cali and Tijuana. The

interviews are conducted

in Spanish, with English

translations printed in

the following pages.

The track ends with a

song written by Ricardo

with music composed

by Alejandro Espino

Aldana and performed

by Alejandro Espino

Aldana, Benjamin Rivera

Cruz, Mary-Ann Murnane &

Giovanni Jesus Borquez

Carvajal.

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Dr. Ramon Felix Landeros

We have a very large clientele for

dentistry that includes all of the United

States. All of it. I have patients that

come from Canada, New York, Florida,

California, Arizona, Nevada, Montana...

all of the United States. They come

looking for dental service.

Dr. Orlando Acosta

The mis-information in the United

States, to keep patients from coming

to the border, tells people that our

oces are dirty, that we do not steril-

ize, that we do not change our gloves,

that you will be robbed, that the maa

will get you. After you have come in

fear, after swearing that you would not

cross the border to get a tattoo, or to

have an ear peirced, or to remove a

nail, least of all to have a tooth taken

out... But when you see that nothing

happens and that you pay a quarter

of the prices in the Un ited States, well

then you want to marry me and dont

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Dr. Frederico Morales

The great businesses of the United States are the insurance

companies. Those insurance companies charge for an indenite

amount of time so that every moment is charged. People come

from the United States accustomed to being charged for every-

thing. Time is money. The time I am giving you, in the United

States is not granted, it is charged. We work with insurance com-

panies, the insurance companies charge for the initial visit, they

charge for the x-rays, they charge for an inspection, everything

comes with a cost. People come here because the price is less,

but the quality is the same.

At that time, my wife began working in a clinic on the other side, in Chula

Vista, she is a medical assistant. And from there came the oppotunity to

begin doing translations for a hospital, here in Tijuana, to charge insur-

ance companies in the United States. So doctors here pay to have their

medical report translated, that translation is then sent to U.S. insurance

companies, so that the insurance company may authorize payment for

the treatment.

We have approximately 50% White and 50% Latino, but of those

Latinos, 90% are U.S. citizens. This leaves us with 2.5% patients that

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90% of my clientle is from the Unites States and 10% are from here,

Mexico. Of the 90% about 40% is White and the other 60% is Latino,

from Chile to Mexico. I have patients who are Guatemalan, Honduran,

Salvadoren, Columbian, Brazilian, Chilean, Bolivian, Argentinian from

all of Latin America.

Theres a transport system here in Tijuana, called Mexicoach. You ar-

rive here by 7th Street or Galeana and walk exactly one block, cross

the street and a half block before crossing Revolution, youll seea huge parking lot and red tourist buses that charge $1.50 to the

patients and bring them from San Ysidro to here and back for an-

other $1.50. Nearly all of my patients do this. Some patients, when

running late, cross the border, jump in a taxi that charges them $5

and then return via Mexicoach. At times of worst trac, while Mexi-

coach is in line, some of my patients get o, rent a bicycle and walk

across, then get in their car and drive home.

I am a dentist entrenched on the border

Earning American Dollars

As I receive the yankee with the rotting molar

His mouth bleeding but no health insurance.

I am from Puebla,

Studied dentistry at the UNAM

To execute my practice in Tijuana

I am a proud Mexican dentist

cleaning the mouths of all Americans

Jim told Mary Ann

who told her brother Bob

and Bob told his neighbor BethWho took her husband John

across the border to have his teeth cleaned.

From mouth to mouth our fame grows and

grows.

Yes, on the border your teeth are well cleaned.

The holy hand of Apollonia protects us,

it manifests itself in the Mexican dentist.

In the world of nance and capital

They think that Mexico is far behind

But we, the Mexican dentists

have retaken the northern frontier.

I am dentist green, white and red

with international know how.

From Matamoros to Tijuana

Amongst drug kingpins, prostitutes and mez-

cal

The dentist is like a sharp shooter

taking aim at the global economy.

Teeth by teeth, cavity by cavity

We shoot all oral pain.

In between Mexico and the United States

You will see that here is dentimundo

populated by many thousands of dentists.

Matamoros, El Progresso, Ojinaga,

Ciudad Juarez, Nogales, Los Algodones,

Mexicali, Tijuana this is our land

that we defend armed with pick, mirror and

oss.

Corrido Al Dentista (Ode to the Dentist)

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SITING EXPOSITIONS:

VANCOUVER

Ryan Griffis + Lize Mogel +

Sarah Ross

Siting Expositions is a broad investi-

gation of the territories and commu-

nities impacted by two international

mega-events - Worlds Fairs andOlympic Games.

This tour focuses on the Eastern end

of False Creek in the city of Vancou-

ver. It is designed as a walking or

cycling tour, starting on the Cambie

St. Bridge, although listeners can

start and stop anywhere .

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of a city to the functioning of a creek.

Vancouver has a unique history as a city that

has hosted both a Worlds FairExpo86and

a Winter Olympics in 2010. These events have

undeniably transformed the land around False

Creek, an urban waterway that borders Down-

town Vancouver. While False Creek has been

shaped by settlement for over a century, the

mega-events of 1986 and 2010 have left an eco-

nomic and political legacy that will be seen and

felt well into the future.

- Ryan Gris, Lize Mogel & Sarah Ross

The Olympic Games and Worlds Fairs (or Expos) are temporary and

spectacular events that are designed to capture the attention and

imagination of the world. Cities compete vigorously to host these

mega-events, vying for the attention of the media and corporate spon-

sors. The Olympics and Expos are each managed by international or-ganizations that act as autonomous entities, collaborating with local

government and business leaders to exercise an authority over the

host city and the event.

Worlds Fairs and Olympic Games are typically projected into the glob-

al consciousness as borderless encounters with international goodwill,

celebrations of diversity and human achievement. But, not every com-

munity nds itself celebrated; whole communities and habitats have

been, and continue to be, displaced and rearranged in order to make

room for these spectacles. Every incarnation of these events is staged

within dened territories, having varying degrees of impact on the

physical and social landscapes they temporarily occupy. And these im-

pacts resonate dierently at dierent scales, from the legal structure

AUDIO INFORMATION

The tracks listed below

correspond to locations

marked on the preceding

map. More detailed in-

structions are provided

in the audio.

1. Introduction2. Cambie St. Bridge

3. Coopers Park

4. False Creek Real

Estate

5. Plaza of Nations

6. Edgewater Casino

7. Concord Pacific

8. Water Cycle Sign,

Science World

9. Gazebo

10. Waterfront Seating

11. Millennium Water/

Athletes Village

12. Habitat Compensation

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FALSECRE

EK (facing page top) One of many signs advertising Millenium Water around the time of the Olympic

Games.

(facing page bottom) False Creeks Modified Waterfront. Based on a graphic produced in the

Challenge Series: Millennium Water: The Southeast False Creek Olympic Village - Vancouver,

Canada, Chapter 01: History + Policy, Roger Bayley, Inc. p. 14.

(above) Architectural Model of Concord 2020. Located in the Concord Pacific Place Presentation

Centre, this is the largest scale model of Vancouvers downtown and showcases Concord Pacifics

vision for the final phase of their False Creek development.

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photographed at the Molson

Hockey House following the

Canadian Hockey Teams

Olympic win. The Hockey

House was one of the

temporary structures erected

along NE False Creek during

the 2010 Olympics.

(left) Sign for the Habitat

Compensation Island. The

artificial island was under

construction before and

during the Olympics.

(next page top) McDonalds

tray liner from Expo86.

(next page bottom) Private

security outside Millennium

Water (the former 2010

Athletes Village), before

its completion.

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RESOURCES

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RESOURCESTravel Information

Alt Guide to Vancouver - altguidetovancouver.wikispaces.com

See Tijuana - www.seetijuana.com

Crab Orchard Natl Wildlife Refuge - www.fws.gov/midwest/CrabOrchard/

Other Recommended Books on Art, Tourism & Geography

Experimental Geography, Nato Thompson, iCI/Melville House, 2008.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography, Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat (eds.), The Journal of

Aesthetics & Protest Press, 2007.

A Call to Farms, Heavy Duty Press, 2008.

Mapping Tourism, Stephen P. Hanna & Vincent J. Del Casino (eds)., University of

Minnesota Press, 2003.

On the Beaten Track, Lucy Lippard, The New Press, 1999.

Other Recommended Audio Tours & Sound Art

Invisible 5 - www.invisible5.org

Ultra-Red - www.ultrared.org

Audible Dwelling - learningsite.info/AudibleDwelling.htm

Echo Local - www.recycledcarbon.com/echolocal.html

An Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park - http://www.anunnaturalhistory.net/

Safari 7 - urbanomnibus.net/2009/05/safari-7/

And While London Burns - www.andwhilelondonburns.com/

See temporarytravelofce.net/storiesfor more.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe Temporary Travel Oce would especially like to thank the contributing art-

ists. We would also like to acknowledge Nicholas Brown, Sharon Irish, Ken Salo,

Faranak Miriftab, Deke Weaver, Kevin Hamilton, Claude Willey, Brett Bloom and

the inhabitants of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor for invaluable advice,

support and assistance.

The individual contributors would like to thank:

(Lize, Ryan & Sarah R.) Yau Choy Lin, Karen Klebbe, Sadira Rodrigues & An-

drea Stevens for narrating, Henry Tsang, Am Johal, David Khang, Sabine Bitter,

Je Derksen, M. Simon Levin, Stu Garret, Alan Duncan, Nicholas Blomley. Siting

Expositions: Vancouverwas funded in part by a grant from the Graham Founda-

tion for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

(Ricardo) Kurt Olmstead, Brooke Singer, Margara de Leon, Esmeralda Cebal-

los, Alejandro Espino Aldana, & all the dentists who contributed their time and

insight.Dentimundo was originally commissioned by Mark Tribe for inSite05s

Tijuana Calling.

(Sarah K.) Patrick Reynolds, Nicholas Brown, Nicole Pietrantoni, Katie Grace

McGowan, Katie Hargrave, Kenlyn Kanouse & Emily Qual.

The production of this book was made possible by a Creative Reasearch Award from the

College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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