Two Places at Once: Cynthia Vargas and Mimi Zeiger in Conversation

Thursday, July 20, 2023
7:00 PM 9:00 PM

Schindler House 835 N. Kings Rd West Hollywood, CA, 90069 (map)

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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 Zohn’s 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 Angeles–based 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.