DIGESTING PLACE: DEAN ERDMANN INTERVIEWED BY AMANDA PARMER: AN ARTIST EXPLORES THE EVOLUTION OF OLDER TECHNOLOGIES INTO THE PRESENT.

BOMB Magazine
January 30, 2020

“Dean Erdmann’s artistic practice draws out physical and libidinal relationships shared across working-class cultures domestically and internationally, experiences that may not otherwise be seen as similar. Over three nights we Gchatted, talked, and emailed about the roots of Erdmann’s And, Apollo: A Laboratory (2017–present) vis-à-vis their larger practice and the relationships they draw out across a broad constellation of archives, histories, and materials including wartime cultures, the Cold War Space Race, descendant technologies, genocidal xenophobias, the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), the meth epidemic, and the Mojave Desert. Erdmann is currently a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (2018–20) and an artist fellow at Urban Glass.”

—Amanda Parmer