In September 2005 we finished a 50 min. long video

“The Paradox of the 10 Acres Square”

watch video here

Summary:
Through a successful ebay bid in January of 2004, 1975 eteam Dollars turned into 10 Acres of personal US property. The lot, a generic square within the larger American grid of townships, is located in the desert of Nevada. The closest settlement, Montello, “The town that refuses to die”, is 8 miles away and the almost abandoned airbase Wendover, at the edge of the Salt Flats, is located about 30 miles SE.
It’s this 10 Acre lot and it’s surroundings that started the eteam’s search for solutions to problems, which were created by big systems that had made some small mistakes. They dealt with miscalculations of land surveyors, residues of the military, the appearance of dead cows and the existence of a “public road” , that went right through the center of their lot. In the middle of nowhere, things added up and finally turned into an “Artificial Traffic Jam”.

Thanks to:

Rona Eddington
Danny Felsenfeld
Andrea Kleine
Michael Patrick MacDonald
Julie McKee
Sophocles Papavasilopoulos
Bobby Previte
Michael Russel
Brenda Shaugnessy
Lysley Tenorio

Mara Ittel-Moderegger
Hannah Friess
Phoebe Pfenning
Leonie Hafner
Allison Reed
Pia Moderegger
Hans Moderegger

Jesse Bercowetz
Melanie Crean
Barbara Ess
Nick Flynn
Michael Gitlin
Jackie Goss
Ijan Hilaire

The people of Montello
and in particular Henry J. Casolari
and Chapel of the Midnight Sun
Nevada Red
Ollie
Ben from Ben's Furniture

Galerie M29 (Babette Richter and Nikifor Brueckner)
Center for Land Use Interpretation
The MacDowell Colony
Grizedale Arts
Prelinger Archive

Music

"On the run" 
composed and performed by Bobby Previte
released on ropeadope records

"Soundtrack for a short Western" 
composed, performed and recorded by
Andrew McKenna Lee

"Three Sided" by Sybarite
from 'Nonument' CD on 4ad

"Like a Bridge over Roosevelt Island" 
performed by Jochen Lamprecht