Landing: Tongva Land Visit with Joel Garcia has been POSTPONED due to rain and a flash flood warning. Please stay tuned for the new date.
Historic houses are widely dependent on the generous transfer of property from private homeowners to public institutions. In 1976, Schindler’s wife Pauline formally established the non-profit organization Friends of Schindler House to preserve the house for future use, transferring the house into FoSH’s ownership. MAK Center operates the Schindler House on gifted land, alongside two other properties.
Can modernist heritage sites learn from indigenous principles of land stewardship and incorporate principles and practices of the First People? The off-site visit begins in an ancestral site in Altadena, recently returned to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy. This one acre property is the the first site in 200 years ceded back to the Tongva community, since the end of the California mission system in 1833.
MAK Center invites participants to join us for a conversation on land stewardship and indigenous principles of conservation with Indigenous artist and cultural organizer Joel Garcia.
JOEL GARCIA
Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator and cultural organizer with 20+ years of experience working transnationally focusing on community-centered strategies. His approach is rooted in Indigenous-based forms of dialoguing and decision-making (non-hierarchical) that uplifts non-institutional expertise. Joel uses art and organizing to raise awareness of issues facing underserved communities, inner-city youth, and other targeted populations. As an artist, he uses printmaking to explore masculinity through Indigenous perspectives through his project “Tatewari,” as well as other social justice issues with his work garnering national press in publications such as the LA Times, NY Times, and Artforum among others. He’s co-founder and director of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous based arts & culture collaborative centering indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles by using arts-based strategies to advocate for and organize to highlight issues impacting native artists and youth.
SUBJECT STUDIES
Subject Studies is a new annual series offering practical and non-practical public engagements, initiated by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Its inaugural theme, Reorientations, developed by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu and Rosario Talevi, directs questions towards institutional habits, routines and practices through perspectives of care, repair and transformation.
This program is supported in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles (DCA), PICE AC/E's Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture and Thomas Mann House.
Image Credit: TAKK Architecture.
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