Re-Writing: A Workshop on Convivial Rules with Jia Yi Gu and Rosario Talevi has been postponed due to illness. Please check in soon for the new date.
Re-Writing: A Workshop on Convivial Rules brings together MAK Center artists, architects, administrators and cultural workers to workshop the Schindler House List of Restrictions.
The Schindler House List of Restrictions was developed by MAK Center and conservation leadership as a set of guidelines that can accommodate the inherent wear and tear of programming a historic house. As a governing document, the List of Restrictions establishes the tone and caretaking associated with the house’s use. These house rules are inherited and interpreted by generations of artists, architects, and administrators and illustrates the challenges between contemporary preservation and contemporary art, where the making of exhibitions is often a delicate act of placing art within another work of art.
The workshop invites participants to advance a culture of collective stewardship of the house and its stakeholders, through a rewriting exercise focused on language of conviviality, affirmation, and care. The resulting convivial rules will be incorporated as part of MAK Center’s house guidelines circulated to audiences and artists.
Participants are invited to read “A Cake You Can’t Eat” a dialogue between Julian Hoeber, Renee Petropoulos, Kimberli Meyer and Anthony Carfello in 2014, that is an originating event for the program.
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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