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Nathaniel Ancheta & Debra Scacco

Antelope Acres, United States of America
Southern California based artists Nathaniel Ancheta and Debra Scacco have a rigorous place-based practice that explores the impact of urbanization on the landscape. Their research includes independently directing interdisciplinary artist-in-residence programs in downtown Los Angeles and the desert of the Antelope Valley. Their first creative collaboration Networks of Power activated the site by wind, sun and sound, culminating in a commissioned sunset performance for two cellos.

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Networks of Power


Networks of Power


Networks of Power oppugns the priority of industry over community by addressing physical and systemic power structures.
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Inspired by the proliferation of solar fields in the Antelope Valley, Networks of Power constructs and deconstructs the extractive nature of urban development, raising questions of willing, impact and inheritance. It is a plea to learn from our history, to consider the communities whose lands and ecosystems are severed, to accept that there is no solution to the culture of consumerism, and to collectively and with care plan our future accordingly. Without self-examination and conscious prevention we risk contributing to a legacy of private industry that arrogates the health of local populations and ecosystems in the name of progress. Based upon systems of gathering, centralizing and distributing of power, Networks of Power investigates process, control and community.



Networks of Power


Networks of Power


Networks of Power oppugns the priority of industry over community by addressing physical and systemic power structures.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Inspired by the proliferation of solar fields in the Antelope Valley, Networks of Power constructs and deconstructs the extractive nature of urban development, raising questions of willing, impact and inheritance. It is a plea to learn from our history, to consider the communities whose lands and ecosystems are severed, to accept that there is no solution to the culture of consumerism, and to collectively and with care plan our future accordingly. Without self-examination and conscious prevention we risk contributing to a legacy of private industry that arrogates the health of local populations and ecosystems in the name of progress. Based upon systems of gathering, centralizing and distributing of power, Networks of Power investigates process, control and community.




Idea by

Nathaniel Ancheta & Debra Scacco
Antelope Acres
United States of America
Southern California based artists Nathaniel Ancheta and Debra Scacco have a rigorous place-based practice that explores the impact of urbanization on the landscape. Their research includes independently directing interdisciplinary artist-in-residence programs in downtown Los Angeles and the desert of the Antelope Valley. Their first creative collaboration Networks of Power activated the site by wind, sun and sound, culminating in a commissioned sunset performance for two cellos.