Final Projects: Group XXXSeptember 10, 2010 - September 12, 2010Schindler House
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Please join us for the 30th Final Projects presentation at the MAK Center.
Architect and aspiring historian from India, Zameer Basrai has conceived a project deeply rooted in the social elements of urban planning. He criticizes the fragmentation of American cities, be it through the built environment or forces such as marginalization, racism, or gentrification. Basrai’s final project, Urbanism Alone, will present a series of photographic works documenting such action at three such sites: 5th St. & Main St., the Los Angeles River near downtown, and the Westwood neighborhood. Through these, he seeks to explain and locate the “abstract forces” defining urban life in Los Angeles.
German artist Mandla Reuter presents presents a portion of his project West Elusive. Throughout his residency, the artist has prospected for real estate throughout Los Angeles. To invoke conversation on authenticity and ownership, Reuter intends to purchase land in L.A. and transport a layer of its topsoil around the world, to be exhibited at various sites in a layout that matches the shape of the plot. At the Schindler House, Reuter shows pieces and documents circumscribing the yet unrealized work.
Austrian artist Markus Zeber has been making an ever-increasing body of kinetic sculptures during his residency. Pairing domestic goods with batteries and other power sources, Zeber gives new personalities to the overlooked pieces of cheap plastic and out-dated electronics that fill Los Angeles’s garages and flea markets – two fly swatters engage in meditative movements through a hanging mobile, a coat hanger struggles to stand up, then falls down, then begins again, et cetera. For his final project at the Schindler House, Zeber is interested in exploring the relations between the movement and mechanics of the human body with that of the engineered world that surrounds us.
New York-based, German architect and publisher Felix Burrichter and German artist Sarah Ortmeyer have produced a publication entitled XXX BURRICHTER ORTMEYER. The project presents and expands upon their research into the inextricable link between Rudolf Schindler’s architectural practice and his wife Pauline’s radical, progressive politics. Burrichter/Ortmeyer’s 48-page, color magazine is organized around a photo series documenting Schindler houses across Los Angeles. These are interspersed with photographs that position design as a social practice. Images of Schindler furniture are seen alongside letters between Rudolf and Pauline. The publication, which will be available for sale, is accompanied by a small installation based on a text on dress by Immanuel Kant.
Brandon Lattu: "Reciprocity of Light"September 16, 2010 - October 16, 2010A MAK Center off-site project
2861 West Avenue 35, Los Angeles 90065
Opening Reception on Thursday, September 16, 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Regularly open Wednesdays and Saturdays 4-8 pm
Reciprocity of Light is an artwork that revitalizes the basic aspect of photography: a surface sensitized to the interruption of light projected from a single, focused source. In this piece, the artist has sensitized an entire room to demonstrate the increasingly
conjoined ideas of image, architecture and the body of the viewer. The resulting work causes the projection of the viewer’s body to become an image as well as a sculptural component of the piece.
MAK Architecture Tour 2010October 10, 201011:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The MAK Center is pleased to present its 2010 Architecture Tour on the 100th birthday of renowned architecture photographer Julius Shulman, on Sunday, October 10, 2010. To celebrate Shulman's influential work, the tour will feature modern residences shot over the course of his career, and give tour-goers the rare opportunity to experience the interiors of some of Los Angeles' most significant modern homes.
The Tour includes Lovell Health House (R. J. Neutra, 1929), the Gold House (R. M. Schindler, 1945), the Kun House (R. J. Neutra, 1936), the Hillside House (Carl Louis Maston, 1948), Shulman House (Raphael Soriano, 1950), and the Gantert House (Pierre Koenig, 1981).
Tickets:
Self-drive: $85, $75 for Friends of the MAK Center and students with i.d.
Shuttle option surcharge: $60
Organic Lunch: $18
Tickets and optional lunches may be purchased through Pay Pal BELOW. Guests may also order over the phone by calling 323.651.1510. Near the tour date, you'll receive an itinerary in the mail which tells you which houses you are scheduled to be at a which times. That itinerary will be your ticket.
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