Contributing artist Carmen Argote reflects with curator Anthony Carfello on the 2015 installation series A Vast Furniture. First staged at the MAK Center Schindler House then at High Desert Test Sites in the Mojave Desert, the installation featured a 1:1 sculptural tracing of the footprint of the house’s indoor and outdoor rooms. Argote and Carfello discuss topics related to art making in situ and ex situ—materializing the simple line-drawing action that gave shape to the house’s determining features back in 1921, when fresh memories of time in Yosemite National Park led Schindler to produce what he conceived of as a permanent campsite.
CArmen argote
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist who works through the act of inhabiting a space. Argote’s practice is in conversation with the site she is working from, often pointing to the body, to class, and to economic structures in relationship to the architecture and to personal history.
Anthony CarFELLO
Anthony Carfello is an editor, writer, and exhibition maker. He is an instructor for Temple University’s Los Angeles program and the former Deputy Director of the MAK Center.
Lecture Series is part of the centennial celebration of the Schindler House, made possible with support from the Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture, City of West Hollywood, California Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, the MAK Center Centennial Council, the MAK Center Patron program, and our sponsors.
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