Final Projects: ReadyFasterBurnsLonger
August 20, 2008 - August 24, 2008

Opening Reception Wednesday, August 20
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Following six months of living and working in Los Angeles, Group XXVI of the MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence program will present their Final Projects in an exhibition at the Schindler House. Manuela Mark, Paul Dallas, Raimund Pleschberger and partners Eldine Heep, Oona Peyrer-Heimstätt and Paul Peyrer-Heimstätt have been living in the R.M. Schindler-designed Mackey Apartments and working on projects that all use Southern California as resource and inspiration.

Schindlertryangeles, the Final Project of Eldine Heep, Oona Peyrer-Heimstätt and Paul Peyrer-Heimstätt, is a geometric re-interpretation of Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House. Elements of the building — walls and lawn — will be transformed into segments of triangles, forcing units originally based on a grid of squares into a triangulated grid. The procedure of “triangulation” derives from the science of geodesy, which uses rasters to analyse the surface of objects or landscapes. This analysis of an object requires its adjustment to a standardized norm; it is a method of imposing order. Schindlertryangeles is a metaphor for the power that geometry imposes over everyday life and the natural world.

Despite the mathematical similarity of the basic geometrical forms of both the original and the transformed Schindler House, the building unravels into a so far unknown habitat. Only through the confrontation of two incompatible systems can the viewer be conscious of the merciless presence of a schematized architecture. In the combination of architectural body and geometrical raster, of research object and scientific analysis, Schindlertryangeles raises questions not only about the possibility of scientific methods, but also about the obsession and the obligations of analysis. It reflects not solely the human urge to submit the entire world to a scientific examination, but also the primal instinct to control the environment.

During his residency, Austrian artist Raimund Pleschberger worked on a series of objects, still lives, and phrases under the rubric, The Extended Ornament. While these works do not look like conventional ornaments, they share some basic properties of “non-autonomous” artworks. They are either dependent on another object to carry them, are symmetrically ordered, have a strong rhetorical component, or serve an obviously decorative purpose.

For the Final Projects exhibition, Pleschberger will show photo documentation of “stucco-prototypes” that he attached to different spatial settings in Los Angeles. These works explore the effects a small sculptural intervention can have within an anonymous urban space. Another body of work Pleschberger will exhibit documents ornamental arrangements he composed using objects of daily life found at the Mackey Apartments. The third component of the Final Projects presentation will be a collection of “ornamental” phrases projected onto Schindler’s architecture. These explore the idea of rhetoric as the linguistic counterpart to ornament and attempt to merge the two disciplines into a single form.

Inspired by the anxiety of "watchfulness" pervading the United States, this work examines perspective and point of view, as physical and cultural phenomena in the context of the U.S.-Mexican border. In the past fifteen years, the U.S. has transformed the border region into a highly militarized zone and it has become a testing ground for the latest in surveillance and security technology. The physical wall between the nations has, in effect, become a virtual wall, with the border "fence" relegated to a symbolic function in the landscape.
The Twin Towers Project is an attempt to evoke the dissolution of the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico and to question the nature of a border between two countries so profoundly interconnected. Positioned on either side of the border to create a visual cross-border dialogue, the towers become interchangeable icons which can record panoramic sights on one side while simultaneously screening them on the other side for a public audience. This virtual transference democratizes surveillance, transforming the activity into shared event.

At a time when the U.S. is closing Border Field State Park to make way for a new "no man's land" and shutting its doors to one of the last places where divided friends and family can meet without crossing the border, this project attempts to call attention for the need for connective public space.
Austrian artist Manuela Mark will present a video and photographs. Interested in the relationship between video/film-recording and natural perception, her work in Los Angeles explores the process of creating identity through the involvement of architecture, design and film. While in Los Angeles, Mark became aware of how people interact with specific environments in the context of their appearance. Using their bodies and certain locations as tools for performing, people create a temporary identity through mimicry or by incorporating the behaviors of fictive roles. The video relates this identification process, employing the first-person narrator in a fiction.

Mark’s video project is based on sound recordings extracted from the novel Quicksand by Nella Larsen. The text fragments contain sensual and concrete descriptions of people, rooms, furniture and fabrics, using powerful imagery and phrases. At certain times, the voice-over becomes the structure for the performances; the rhythms, hesitations and pauses of the reading are reflected in the movements and gestures of the figure in the video. Filmed at the Mackey Apartments, the visual performances are also very much inspired by their locale. The exhibition will also include photographs responding to the video. While the structure of the video is dominated by the process of reading, the photographs are concrete compositions of body, texture and the architectural structure.

Free Community Day at the Mackey Apartments
July 19, 2008

Event

Towards Sustainability: Changing the Urban Habitat and Habitus
June 04, 2008

Event

Conversation with Heinz Emigholz, Thom Andersen and Judith Sheine
April 11, 2008

Event

Hana Reichman Gallery
March 09, 2008 - March 16, 2008

Exhibition at the Mackey Apartments

Final Projects: Ah CA va bien
March 06, 2008 - March 09, 2008

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Victor Burgin: The Little House
November 10, 2007 - February 24, 2008

Exhibition

MAK Salon at the Schindler House
February 03, 2008

Hosted by Andrea Lenardin Madden
An intimate dinner and conversation in honor of Claudia Schmied, Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Art and Culture
Sponsored by Joyce and Mal Feinberg

Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Ismail Farouk
November 06, 2008 - January 04, 2008

Opening Reception
Wednesday, November 5 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

For the second part in the exhibition series Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions, Ismail Farouk, a MAK Urban Future Initiative Research Fellow, will present a survey of his activities and strategies for activating change, including video, photography and performance. Farouk’s focus on the urban spaces of Johannesburg, South Africa point the Western viewer to spaces, vocabulary and politics that initially seem foreign but which are deeply tied to Western power structure. Utilizing contemporary media and mining his own position, he produces artwork that questions the occupation of space and what that means in a post-apartheid era.

About the MAK Urban Future Initiative
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, at the Schindler House, is pleased to announce the launching of a fellowship program, the MAK Urban Future Initiative, focused on contemporary urban issues.

About UFI
Funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the MAK Urban Future Initiative (UFI) is a fellowship program in which cultural researchers from diverse nations will come to Los Angeles for two months, live in the exemplary L.A. modern Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R. M. Schindler, 1936) and pursue a research topic related to urban phenomena. Fellows will come from nations that are under-represented in the Los Angeles discourse; the MAK Center will work closely with them to create a meaningful cross-cultural exchange. The goal is to generate concepts for the urban future by stimulating dialogue and mining both Los Angeles and international resources.

The objectives of the program are to:

• Welcome international urban-focused researchers to Los Angeles, and connect them to the city through its architecture and its creative/intellectual community.

• Record, log, and publish their cross-cultural exchange online and in print.

• Enliven a work of architecture by R.M. Schindler by inviting guests from far and near to share the space while pursuing creative and intellectual interests.

Fellows
The MAK Center is pleased to welcome its first fellow, Marco Kusumawijaya. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, he is an architect by training who has been active in the fields of architecture, the environment, cultural heritage, urban planning and development for 20 years. He has worked with the private sector, international agencies, governments and NGOs, and also writes and lectures, with a special interest in sustainable urbanization and social changes that promote sustainability. In 2001, he started Green Map in Indonesia, as part of an international effort to map the natural, cultural and green resources of communities throughout the world. Kusumawijaya plans to study the relationship between the last 100 years of urban history in Los Angeles and the levels of material and energy used in the production and operation of its built spaces. This will contribute to his long-term study of means to promote sustainability in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities.

The other UFI fellows hail from across the globe, including Venezuela, South Africa, Peru, Iran, and Egypt. Among the professions represented by this group are art, architecture, poetry, urban planning and more. Topics to be addressed include Latino urbanisms, “spatial justice,” the phenomenon of the urban desert, and the impact of satellite TV on translating cultural experience.

Location
The MAK UFI will be housed in the Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R.M. Schindler, 1936), an exemplary modern residence located at the crest of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Mulholland Drive. The L-shaped building is located at cliff’s edge, with its main living spaces facing the view of the canyon below and the garage and sleeping area in a two-story side wing. The large lot allows the building to spread out and engage the landscape with a dramatic catwalk. Schindler’s only “spec” house, it was commissioned by the developer of the subdivision to attract buyers to the area.

UFI Jury
The MAK UFI fellows submitted proposals and were selected by an international panel of leaders in the arts, architecture and planning. The panel included: Sam Assefa, Architect, Director of Policy for the Department of Planning, City of Chicago; Victoria Beard, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UC Irvine; Sylvia Lavin, Author, Professor of Architecture, UCLA; Qingyun Ma, Architect, Dean of USC School of Architecture; Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center Director; Peter Noever, CEO and Artistic Director, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art; and Aradhana Seth, Filmmaker, Designer, Bombay/New Delhi.

Organization:
Alaine Azcona, UFI programs manager
aazcona@makcenter.org
Kimberli Meyer, Director MAK Center, Los Angeles
Peter Noever, CEO and Artistic Director, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art

MAK Day 2007
November 10, 2007

Event

Out There Doing It
September 13, 2007 - October 25, 2007

LA Forum Lecture Series

MAK Architecture Tour 2007
October 06, 2007 - October 07, 2007

Annual Architecture Tour

Final Projects: Group XXIV
September 06, 2007 - September 09, 2007

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Arnulf Rainer. Hyper-Graphics
May 17, 2007 - August 26, 2007

Exhibition

sound. at the Schindler House 2007
August 25, 2007

Experimental Music Concerts

Arnulf Rainer Finnissage
August 23, 2007

Hosted by Hannelore and Clara Ditz
An intimate dinner and conversation to mark the closing of the MAK Center exhibition Arnulf Rainer. Hyper-Graphics.
Hannelore and Clara Ditz, wife and daughter respectively of renowned Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer, led a discussion about resistance against the establishment and the Vienna art-scene past and future.
Sponsored by Galerie Lelong, Paris - New York - Zurich.

Pinky and the Brain
August 11, 2007

Exhibition at the Mackey Apartments

Lachkonserve / On Love
July 28, 2007 - August 04, 2007

Exhibition at the Mackey Apartments

The Hylomorphic Project
January 01, 2007 - August 01, 2007

Billboard Project

Skeletons in the Cupboard
July 07, 2007

Exhibition at the Mackey Apartments

A Kingdom For A Horse
June 09, 2007 - June 03, 2007

Exhibition at the Mackey Apartments

Poetry Reading
April 15, 2007

Poetry Reading

Final Projects: Exquisite Corpse
March 08, 2007 - March 11, 2007

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

The Gen[H]ome Project
October 29, 2006 - February 25, 2007

Exhibition, Publication and Podcast

Synthetic Ecologies
February 10, 2007

Panel Discussion

Repeat
March 17, 2006 - January 01, 2007

Billboard Project

MAK Architecture Tour 2006
October 01, 2006

Annual Architecture Tour

Final Projects: CENTER
September 06, 2006 - September 10, 2006

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

sound. at the Schindler House: A Tribute to the Sounds of a Forbidden Planet
August 25, 2006

Experimental Music Concert

sound. at the Schindler House: Yuko Nexus6
July 29, 2006

Experimental Music Concert

Vertical Garden
June 09, 2006 - July 10, 2006

Landscape Architecture Competition and Exhibition at SCI-Arc

sound. at the Schindler House: Tetuzi Akiyama
June 24, 2006

Experimental Music Concert

Symmetry
January 26, 2006 - May 21, 2006

Exhibition

Mackey Apartments Re-Opening
May 11, 2006

Private Reception for Architectural Renovation

Final Projects: Love After the Cold War in an Open House of a (Re) Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic
March 10, 2006 - March 12, 2006

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence & Guests Exhibition

Out There Doing It, The Return
October 05, 2005 - November 02, 2005

LA Forum Lecture Series

Isaac Julien/True North
July 15, 2005 - October 23, 2005

Exhibition, Panel, Billboard and Screenings

MAK Architecture Tour 2005
October 02, 2005

Architecture Tour and Reception

Starving for Embarassing Architecture
September 29, 2005

Book Launch and Presentation

Final Projects: 'glass, concrete and stone, it's just a house not a home'
September 23, 2005 - September 25, 2005

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

MAK Day: What Makes a Building Stay Alive?
September 10, 2005

Event

Summer Sundays: Schindler Sampler
July 10, 2005 - August 28, 2005

Self-guided Tour

sound. at the Schindler House: Scores Composed for the Moving Image
August 26, 2005 - August 27, 2005

Experimental Music Concert

sound. at the Schindler House: Kelan Philip Cohran
July 30, 2005

Experimental Music Concert

Schindler by MAK
June 30, 2005

Book Release

Günther Domenig: Structures that Fit My Nature
March 31, 2005 - June 26, 2005

Exhibition

Amir Zaki: Summer Through Winter
January 07, 2005 - February 20, 2005

Exhibition

Jesse Weber: Hitch
January 07, 2005 - February 20, 2005

Exhibition/Outdoor Project

SHOWDOWN! at the Schindler House
September 20, 2004 - December 05, 2004

Fashion Show, Exhibition and Performances

MAK Day 2004: Fashion Statement
October 10, 2004

Event

Discussions in a Garden
September 22, 2004 - October 07, 2004

Lecture Series

10Y MAK Center: Austria / Architecture/ Night Open Air
September 29, 2004

Event

Final Projects: Mandatory
September 07, 2004 - September 09, 2004

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Yves Klein: Air Architecture
May 13, 2004 - August 29, 2004

Exhibition

sound. at the Schindler House
June 26, 2004

Experimental Music Concerts

sound. at the Schindler House
June 26, 2004

Experimental Music Concerts

sound. at the Schindler House
June 26, 2004

Experimental Music Concerts

MAK Salon at the Schindler House
May 16, 2004

Hosted by Angelika Taschen
Mrs. Taschen launched a conversation about the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles. Guests explored the topic of why Los Angeles is becoming an important cultural city.

3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs
February 06, 2004 - March 17, 2004

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Curated Exhibition

Final Projects: It's Time to Stay Home and Get Some Audience
March 12, 2004 - March 14, 2004

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Schindler’s Paradise: Architectural Resistance
August 06, 2003 - December 07, 2003

Exhibition

Architectural Resistance: Contemporary Architects Face Schindler Today
November 23, 2003

Book Release Event

MAK Day: Seen and Heard in LA
October 04, 2003

Event

Final Projects: Group XVI
September 01, 2003 - September 30, 2003

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

sound. at the Schindler House
June 28, 2003 - September 20, 2003

Experimental Music Concerts

TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists
January 29, 2003 - July 27, 2003

Exhibition

Final Projects: Group XV
March 21, 2003 - March 23, 2003

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Plugged and Haunted: Garage Projects at the Mackey Apartments
February 16, 2003 - February 23, 2003

Mackey Apartments Exhibition

Lecture by Christian Witt-Dörring, MAK Vienna Curator
January 07, 2003

Lecture

Home Scenes: 8 Days of Revision
December 15, 2002 - December 22, 2002

Exhibition

MAK Tour 2002
October 20, 2002

Architecture Tour

The Man We Want to Hang: A Three-Day Retrospective of the films of Kenneth Anger
October 10, 2002 - October 12, 2002

Exhibition

Final Projects: Group XIV
September 01, 2002 - September 30, 2002

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

sound. : Third Annual Summer Concert Series
June 01, 2002 - September 30, 2002

Experimental Music Concerts

MAK DAY: Envisioning Architecture
September 08, 2002

Event

Gerald Zugman: Blue Universe, Architectural Manifestos by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
May 09, 2002 - September 08, 2002

Exhibition

3rd Annual MAK DAY: Site and Sound
September 08, 2002

Event

Room
August 22, 2002

Event

Animation Screening
April 17, 2002

Screening

MARKINGS
January 30, 2002 - April 14, 2002

Exhibition

Final Projects: Group XIII
February 01, 2002 - February 28, 2002

Jeremy Deller: I Love Melancholy at Low Gallery, Opening Reception
January 11, 2002

Event

2 Tonic Plates
December 18, 2001

Exhibition

20/35 Vision
September 21, 2001 - October 28, 2001

Exhibition

Oxygen: Flipping through Frederick Kiesler
September 26, 2001 - October 15, 2001

Exhibition

sound. 2001
June 01, 2001 - September 30, 2001

Experimental Music Concerts

Harmonic Guitars (Loud Music for Unusual Electric Guitars) - Glenn Branca and Reg Bloor
September 28, 2001 - September 29, 2001

Concert

In Between: Art and Architecture - Part 2
March 09, 2001 - September 02, 2001

Exhibition

In Between: Art and Architecture - Part 3
July 20, 2001 - September 02, 2001

Exhibition

Sonic Dan – Stephen Prina
August 24, 2001 - August 25, 2001

Concert

MAK Architecture Tour and an “Evening on the Roof”
August 19, 2001

Architecture Tour

Wild Walls: Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism
August 08, 2001

Event

Sam Durant: South of Here
August 04, 2001

Event

Maureen Selwood: All the Places I Have Ever Lived
July 21, 2001

Event

The World Out of Tune Festival (W.O.O.T.)
May 20, 2001

Concert

The Kings Road Furniture
March 28, 2001 - April 20, 2001

Exhibition

RAIN
March 17, 2001 - March 18, 2001

Event

Frederick J. Kiesler: Endless Space
December 06, 2000 - February 25, 2001

Exhibition

In Between: Art and Architecture – Part 1
February 16, 2001 - February 18, 2001

Exhibition

heaven’s gift — Contemporary Art Tower, A New Programmatic Strategy for the Presentation of Contemporary Art
October 28, 2000 - December 17, 2000

Exhibition

A New City: The Architecture of Eric Owen Moss and the Urban Strategies of Samitaur Constructs for Culver City
October 29, 2000

Exhibition

Trans-Culture
October 07, 2000

Event

sound. at the Schindler House
June 01, 2000 - September 30, 2000

Experimental Music Concerts

sound. at the Schindler House
June 01, 2000 - September 30, 2000

Experimental Music Concerts

American Pictures 1961 - 1967: Photographs by Dennis Hopper
June 02, 2000 - September 17, 2000

Exhibition

Upstate
March 01, 2000 - May 28, 2000

Exhibition

MAK Architecture Tour 2000
April 02, 2000

Architectuer Tour

Six-Day-Play
February 24, 2000

Event

Location Proposal #2
January 26, 2000 - February 20, 2000

Exhibition

Recent Works
February 19, 2000

Event

climate, space, light, mood
February 16, 2000

Event

Numbers
October 13, 1999 - January 16, 2000

Exhibition

LIFE/BOAT
July 22, 1999 - September 26, 1999

Exhibition

Some Things to Be Seen or Taking Place not Necessarily Related to Each Other
September 22, 1999

Event

1st Annual MAK Day
September 18, 1999

Event

Film/Art/Architecture Event
August 27, 1999

Event

Film/Art/Architecture Event
August 27, 1999

Event

Backroom
July 11, 1999 - August 22, 1999

Exhibition

Micro Space/Global Time: An Architectural Manifesto
June 02, 1999 - July 11, 1999

Exhibition

Architecture and Revolution: Escuelas Nacionales de Arte en La Habana
March 10, 1999 - May 30, 1999

Exhibition

Work in Progress
May 13, 1999

Event

Final Projects: Group VII
March 19, 1999 - March 21, 1999

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Twelve Projects by R.M. Schindler
February 03, 1999 - February 28, 1999

Exhibition

The best animals are the flat animals—the best space is the deep space
October 28, 1998 - January 17, 1999

Exhibition

1998 R.M. Schindler Residence Tour
November 06, 1998 - November 07, 1998

Architecture Tour

Touch Down in the Land of Superheroes, Illustrated Version
October 09, 1998

Event

Final Projects: Group VI
September 19, 1998 - September 26, 1998

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Martin Kippenberger, The Last Stop West
July 09, 1998

Event

Final Projects: Befejezett Munka
March 13, 1998 - March 29, 1998

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Anarchitecture: Works by Gordon Matta-Clark
November 17, 1997 - January 18, 1998

Exhibition

Roland Rainer: Reflections on my Architecture
December 03, 1997

Lecture

Final Projects: Group IV
September 13, 1997 - September 28, 1997

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

World Cup of Art — Missing the Goal?
September 10, 1997

Event

Silent & Violent: Selected Artists’ Editions
March 19, 1997 - August 31, 1997

Exhibition

L.A.NDING
July 18, 1997

Event

L.A. Projects: Work-in-Progress
May 14, 1997

Event

Open House/Open Studio
March 20, 1997 - March 22, 1997

Event

room of displacement/loneliness
February 01, 1997 - March 22, 1997

Exhibition

Public Spaces/Private Exposure
February 06, 1997

Event

Final Projects: Group II
September 17, 1996 - September 30, 1996

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Art in the Center
September 18, 1996

Event

The Havana Project, Architecture Again
April 13, 1996 - August 27, 1996

Exhibition

The Garage Project
April 13, 1996 - August 14, 1996

Mackey Apartments Exhibition

Schindler House Tour
April 13, 1996

Architecture Tour

FIVE-X
January 01, 1996 - March 31, 1996

Exhibition

Art Protects You
March 20, 1996

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Performance