Under the Influence: Conversation 005 with Caroline Dahl and Heidi Duckler
Please join the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture for Under the Influence 005 with Caroline Dahl and Heidi Duckler.
Conservation Piece β A Public Discussion with Rosa Lowinger and Daniel Paul
βPermanence was never the test of folk art.β
β Esther McCoy from Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey (1896β1988) began building Bottle Village in her 60s, a collection of bottle-constructed houses that became her lifeβs work. The site housed her extensive pencil collection, her assemblage artworks, herself, and her family. Visitors periodically visited and Prisbrey would host, give tours, sing songs, and tell stories. As an artist-built environment and Prisbreyβs home, Bottle Village is the embodiment of an evolving social sculpture. Formed in July 1979, Preserve Bottle Village Committee is a non-profit organization created to acquire and preserve the historic site when it was facing demolition after Prisbrey had to sell the site to a private developer. In the context of Prisbreyβs vision, the task of preservation becomes a question, how would she want her work to be viewed, restored, or rebuilt when she is no longer around? These imperatives become essential to providing a direction forward for Bottle Village.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present a public discussion with writer, curator and art conservator, Rosa Lowinger and architectural historian and former Acting Director of Preserve Bottle Village Committee, Daniel Paul. They will discuss their individual practices in relation to the ongoing preservation of Bottle Village in the context of the exhibition Kathi Hofer and Preserve Bottle Village Committee.
ROSA LOWINGER
Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born American art and architectural conservator and writer. She is the founder of RLA Conservation, LLC (www.rlaconservation.com), a practice with offices in Los Angeles and Miami. Rosa is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation, the Association for Preservation Technology, and American Academy in Rome, where she conducted research on the history of vandalism to art and public space. Her books include: Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt: 2006) and the recently published Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Row House: 2023). She will be the keynote speaker at the 2024 Docomomo US Conference to be held in Miami.
DANIEL PAUL
Daniel Paul began historic preservation volunteer work at Grandma Prisbreyβs Bottle Village 30 years ago, just one week after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. During his 15 years onsite, he coordinated with a noted rebuilding team, State Offices, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damage repair monies, he authored public facing materials, and in 1996, wrote the National Register of Historic Places landmark application that helped protect Bottle Village. Daniel holds a masterβs degree in art history from the California State University Northridge. His masterβs thesis presented the origin story of 1970s-era Late-Modern glass skin office park architecture.
This exhibition series is made possible by The Austrian Federal Chancellery.
This program is supported in part by the California Arts Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles (DCA)
KATHI HOFER AND PRESERVE BOTTLE VILLAGE COMMITTEE
April 18, 2024 β June 16, 2024
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Opening Reception for Kathi Hofer and Preserve Bottle Village Committee
Join us for the opening reception of Kathi Hofer and Preserving Bottle Village Committee . This exhibition brings together original bottles from Tressa βGrandmaβ Prisbreyβs collapsed Bottle Village structures, Prisbreyβs assemblage artwork, and works by Hofer placing them in a βmagic circleβ at the Mackey Apartment Garage Top Gallery where the objects and artifacts relate and resemble one another (ex)changing their value and meaning.
KATHI HOFER
Kathi Hofer (b. 1981, Hallein, Austria) works conceptually across media. She is interested in forms of everyday creativity and their specific freedoms and constraints as well as in the relationship between artistic work and socio-economics. In her installations she integrates found objects, images, stories, and practices that have strongly determined the roles and values within the environments she grew up in or moves within today. In addition to her installation-based work, she has recently turned to immaterial practices and experimental forms of storytelling. In this context, she has initiated improvised encounters between actors from different cultural fields or backgrounds in public or semi-private space staging unannounced performances that took place in the absence of an audience. Of these unrehearsed, unnoticed actions photographic evidence remains that is open for further interpretation. Recent exhibitions include Continental Baths (London, UK), the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, US), Winona (Brussels, Belgium), Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo, Japan), Austrian Cultural Forum (Warsaw, Poland), MAK β Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna, Austria), and mumok β Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, Austria). Her book βGrandmaβ Prisbreyβs Bottle Village was published by Spector Books, Leipzig (2021).
PRESERVING BOTTLE VILLAGE COMMITTEE
Preserve Bottle Village Committee is a non-profit organization formed in July 1979 to acquire and restore the privately-owned historic property. In the intervening decades, dedicated members have been responsible for ensuring the protection of Bottle Village. The long-term objective of the organization is to allow public access on a regular basis to the fully improved and restored Bottle Village. In 2012, the organization initiated a comprehensive restoration approach for the entire one-third acre site and its historic components. For the Garage Exchange exhibition, Preserve Bottle Village Committee board member Katherine Weisman collaborated closely with Kathi Hofer, the MAK Center, and RLA retrieving and selecting artifacts.
This exhibition series is made possible by The Austrian Federal Chancellery.
KATHI HOFER AND PRESERVING BOTTLE VILLAGE COMMITTEE
April 18, 2024 β June 16, 2024
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Schindler Social Club
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is initiating a new, invite-only members group for those living in or supporting the preservation of Schindler-designed homes throughout the region.
Invisible Adversaries
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Now Instant Image Hall presents Invisible Adversaries (1977), directed by VALIE EXPORT.
Invisible Adversaries
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Now Instant Image Hall presents Invisible Adversaries (1977), directed by VALIE EXPORT.
In Their Own Image
In Their Own Image is a performance program curated by ChloΓ« Flores featuring new work by performing artists Zackary Drucker, Sierra Fujita, Emily Lucid, Lara Salmon, Andrea Soto, and Dorian Wood. Curation of the program began as an invitation to create work in response to VALIE EXPORTβs Body Configurations within the context of the Schindler House.
VALIE EXPORT: Embodied Curatorial Walkthrough
Join Jia Yi Gu, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and organizer of the exhibition, on a tour of VALIE EXOPRT: Embodied.
Researcher-in-Residence Application Deadline
The Researcher-in-Residence is a $5,000 award and four-to-eight-week summer residency at R.M. Schindlerβs Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles, California. The residency is awarded annually to an architect, artist, and/or researcher based in the United States to conduct original research that contributes to the current topic.
Opening Reception for Final Projects: Group LIV
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to announce Final Projects: Group LIV, exhibiting three works produced by our Artists and Architects-in-Residence, Anna-Sophie Berger, Bianca Gamser, and Evan Ifekoya.
VALIE EXPORT: Embodied Opening Reception
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present VALIE EXPORT. A monumental figure working with feminist actions since the 1960s, VALIE EXPORTβs work has redefined the field of performance, expanded cinema, and artistic practice.
Exhibition Copies
Join Julie Riley and Jenny Leavitt for a hands-on workshop as they demonstrate their printmaking and filming techniques for the exhibition Print Ready Drawings.
Print Ready Drawings Workshop and Roundtable
Print-Ready Drawings: Workshop and Roundtable is a one-day hybrid program in the form of a workshop and public roundtable, convened as part of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture exhibition Print Ready Drawings, curated by Sarah Hearne and supported by the Getty Foundationβs Paper Project Initiative.
After Comfort: A Userβs Guide
After Comfort is a new project by e-flux Architecture that explores the way we have come to live in buildings, and imagines how this life might change to reduce carbon and adapt to unstable climates.
Building Practice Book Launch
Building Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice.
MAK Architecture Tour Winter 2023
The MAK Center 2023 Winter Architecture Tour features the personal Westside residences of three contemporary architects: Thom Mayne, Clive Wilkinson, and Charles Ward.
Susan MorganβDr. Block Color Productions: A 35mm view of architecture and design, 1943-1955
In 1945, R.M. Schindler wrote to Elizabeth Bauer Mock, director of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, advising her that if she wanted to get a better picture of how modern architecture was developing in the West, she should look at βDr. Blockβs collection of colored slides.β German Γ©migrΓ© architect Fritz Block was an aficionado of the Leica camera and Kodachrome film and one of the few photographers that Schindler would ever recommend.
This lecture is free and open to the public - no rsvp required.
SUSAN MORGAN
Susan Morganβs writing about art, design, and cultural biography has been featured in exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, and mainstream publications. She is the editor of Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader (East of Borneo Books, 2012) and, with Kimberli Meyer, co-curated Sympathetic Seeing (MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, 2011), the first exhibition about the groundbreaking work of writer and social critic Esther McCoy.
Image:
Fritz Block (German, 1889-1955), photographer
Rose Harris House, Los Angeles, CA, 1942, destroyed by fire, 1959
Architect: Rudolph M. Schindler
Getty Research Institute, 2023.R.4
Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Dr. Fritz Block
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August, 31, 2023
11 amβ1 pm
September, 28, 2023
7β9 pm
October, 12, 2023
7β9 pm
Print Ready Drawings Opening Reception
Celebrate the opening of Print Ready Drawings at the Schindler House.
Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda β A Laughter Meditation Playshop
Discover the power of laughter with Laraaji
and yet you grow Opening Reception
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present the 22nd iteration of Garage Exchange ViennaβLos Angeles: and yet you grow featuring work by Vienna-based artist Christian Kosmas Mayer and Los Angeles-based artist Gala Porras-Kim at the Mackey Apartments Garage Top Gallery.
Todd CronanβNothing Permanent
Todd Cronan speaks on his new book Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California. Nothing Permanent is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970.
Lake VereaβEnthralled by DarkRooms
Lake Verea is a queer due working in conceptual photography and started the DarkRoom Series in 2011 portraying the house of Mexican Modern master Luis Barragan.
Virgo Rising
Join us for Virgo Rising, the annual benefit featuring an exquisite dinner by a constellation of rising chefs taking place on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
Opening Reception for Final Projects: Group LIII
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to announce Final Projects: Group LIII, exhibiting three works produced by our Artists and Architects-in-Residence, Simona Ferrari, CΓ©line Brunko, and Philipp Fleischmann. Final Projects: Group LIII marks the culmination of the 53rd iteration of the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments.
Elke KrasnyβMonuments and Conflicts: Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist
Elke Krasny speaks about how care and repair as well as refusal and resistance as analytics to understand βmonumental conflicts.β
Imaging: Architectural Photography with Zara Pfeifer
Imaging: Architectural Photography with Zara Pfeifer is a workshop where participants are invited to share their photographs and work in a convivial space. Learn about Zaraβs practice and connect with other students who are exploring architecture through photography.
MAK Architecture Tour Summer 2023
Join us for the MAK Centerβs 2023 Architecture Tour through the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles and the homes by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, and Harwell Hamilton Harris.
some words about spaces
Join artists and writers for some words about spaces, an afternoon of readings that explore working with and against architecture and its physical and psychological effects. Organized in conjunction with Garage Exchange ViennaβLos Angeles: Plastic, Plastic, Plastic featuring work by Kerstin von Gabain and Ellen Schafer at the Mackey Apartments Garage, the afternoon features readings on memory, intimacy, precarity, air conditioners, subletting, getting locked out, doors that won't stay shut, windows, and the daily survival strategies artists use to navigate the spaces around them. The reading event is organized by Olivia Leiter and Rahel Levine.
Readings by Michael Kennedy Costa, Dorit Cypis, Angella dβAvignon, Steve Kado, Olivia Leiter, Rahel Levine, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Christopher Yang, Kim Ye, and Kim Zumpfe.
This exhibition series is made possible by The Austrian Federal Chancellery.
Photo: Tag Christof
Garage exchange viennaβLos Angeles: Plastic, Plastic, Plastic
Thursday, June 8, 2023 β Sunday August 6, 2023
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
6:30β8:30 pm
Tarot Card Readings with Dianne Lawrence
Come to the Schindler House during visitor service hours 3:00PM β 5:00PM to receive a tarot reading by an invited guest from artist RenΓ©e Petropoulos. Readings will take place in the Chase Courtyard on Petropoulosβ shag carpet installation.
First come first serve and free with the price of admission.
RENΓE PETROPOULOS
RenΓ©e Petropoulos, a Los Angeles native, received her BA in Art History specializing in Islamic Art, MA in video, and MFA in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interest in nationalism and identity via pattern, repetition, and color is reflected through her public works such as the one found in the Los Angeles International Airport Delta Terminal. She lives in Venice, California and is Professor emeritus at the Otis College of Art and Design in the Graduate Studies Department.
Fri, June 23, 2023
3 β 5 pm
Two Places at Once: Cynthia Vargas and Mimi Zeiger in Conversation
Cynthia Vargas and Seeking Zohn co-curator Mimi Zeiger will explore the translations, triangulations, and displacements that arise between Vienna, Los Angeles, and Guadalajara. Vargas, a curator and researcher whose family is from Guadalajara, will share reflections on Zohnβs architecture and narratives of transnational identity.
CYNTHIA VARGAS
Cynthia Vargas is a curator, researcher, and explorer. Her practice encourages curiosity, generosity, and well-being. In 2020, she founded Stairwell, an experimental art space and residency housed in a domestic space in the Westlake-MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. Recent residencies, exhibitions, and collaborations include Carmen Argote, Dog Glove Hand; Leonardo Bravo, Constant Relation; and Big City Forum, Stories that Move. Cynthia serves on the board of Clockshop and Barnsdall Arts.
MIMI ZEIGER
Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angelesβbased critic, editor, and curator. She was co-curator of the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus and the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Projects include Soft Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen. Zeiger has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, Metropolis, and Aperture. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture. She is a SCI-Arc visiting faculty member.
Seeking Zohn is made possible, in part, with generous support from the City of West Hollywood, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, Ago Projects, the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles, Plant Material, and University of East London Production Support.
SEEKING ZOHN
April 01, 2023 β July 23, 2023
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April, 01, 2023
6β8 pm
May, 11, 2023
12β1:30 pm
June, 01, 2023
12β1 pm
Sunset at Schindler Private Reception
MAK Center Patrons and Members are invited to the private gathering Sunset at Schindler including a cocktail reception for Seeking Zohn hosted by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu, artist Zara Pfeifer and co-curator Mimi Zeiger.
Join us for a viewing of the exhibition with cocktail drinks generously provided by TepozΓ‘n Tequila. Following the reception, join Cynthia Vargas and Seeking Zohn co-curator Mimi Zeiger in conversation exploring the translations, triangulations, and displacements that arise between Vienna, Los Angeles, and Guadalajara. Vargas, a curator and researcher whose family is from Guadalajara, will share reflections on Zohnβs architecture and narratives of transnational identity.
ABOUT SUNSET AT SCHINDLER
Sunset at Schindler is an invite-only event series offered to MAK Center patrons and sponsors, featuring cocktail receptions and access to the Schindler House.
Seeking Zohn is made possible, in part, with generous support from the City of West Hollywood, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, Ago Projects, the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles, Plant Material, and University of East London Production Support.
SEEKING ZOHN
April 01, 2023 β July 23, 2023
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April, 01, 2023
6β8 pm
May, 11, 2023
12β1:30 pm
June, 01, 2023
12β1 pm