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Eagle Village: A deep mapping of fallow architecture
Eagle Village: A deep mapping of fallow architecture
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Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture assembles a decades-long engagement with a vast network of boarded-up military buildings at the edge of the small Northern Utah town of Brigham City. Using the same architectural footprint, this infrastructure shifted from a WWII Army Hospital to the Intermountain Indian School-the largest of the off-reservation federal Indian boarding schools. Opened by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1950 with enrolment limited to Diné students from the Navajo Nation, the school was renamed the Intermountain Inter-Tribal Indian School in 1974, expanding enrolment to tribal communities from all over the United States. Upon the closure of the school in 1984, the buildings lay dormant for decades. After an effort to repurpose them as a New Urbanist townhome community to be called Eagle Village, the masterplan was abandoned, the buildings demolished over years, and the land cleared.
Initiated in 1996, when the artist Sheila Nadimi first gained permission to access and photograph these buildings, Eagle Village takes a deep mapping framework to reveal the cultural and political forces that shaped and reimagined this site over time and generates a spatial archive of place following over 25 years of observation, outreach, research, and contemplation. At its core, this project is an engagement with the material traces of some of the key narratives of American society. More than clarifying what unfolded on this parcel of land, Eagle Village presents its contradictions and paradoxes. Limited print, 150 numbered copies
Sheila Nadimi, 2025
22 X 30 cm, 392 pages
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