Luca Atonucci and local artist/amateur historian, Joey Enos, talk about The Emeryville Mudflats and the recent Colpa Press publication on the site and phenomenon. The Emeryville Mudflats sit between a municipal landfill and the Oakland airport, and though it's origins remain enigmatic, the sculpture park that existed there had a huge influence on funk art/outsider art coming out of The Bay Area from the 60s through the 90s. The sculputre park and its loss tell the boom and bust story of countercultural movements, commerce, and the environment, but there's also something deeper there about art and impermanence. It's artists and keepers maintained anonymity, and records of it are incomprehensive, but the following links are some of its remains:

- ➚Joey Enos wrote a series articles on The Emeryville Mudflats

- ➚This eerie Chris Marker Film shot there

- ➚Images of the always in-flux sculptures can be found in The Robert Sommer Collection:

- ➚There's this Emeryville Mudflat Short Film

- ➚You can find more about Colpa Press' Radical as Folk: The Emeryville Mudflat Sculpture Garden here

 

 

 

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