Join the curators of Schindler House 100 on in-person tours of the Schindler House highlighting their unique individual perspectives on the exhibition.

JIA YI GU

Jia Yi Gu is director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and co-director of Spinagu. She is an architectural historian, educator, exhibition-maker and organizer. Her work focuses on histories of knowledge production and display practices in architecture, with an emphasis on objects, exhibitions, and document history. 

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. 

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. 

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. 

Come to the Schindler House during visitor service hours 3:00PM — 4:30PM to receive a tarot reading by an invited guest from Renée Petropoulos as an extension programming of her shag carpet installation and proposal for the exhibition Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. Invited readers include: Jade Gordon (July 1)⁠, Meg Cranston⁠ (August 5), and Asher Hartman (September 2).

First come first serve and free with the price of admission.

Renée Petropoulos

Renée Petropoulos, a Los Angeles native, received her BA, MA, and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interest in pattern, repetition, and color is reflected through her public works such as the one found in the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line. She lives in Venice, California and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design in the Graduate Studies Department.

JADE GORDON

Jade Gordon is an artist, actress, and founding member of the theatrical art collective My Barbarian. My Barbarian recently had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art that traced their practice over the past two decades. Gordon has recently collaborated with Megan Whitmarsh for the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA.

MEG CRANSTON

Meg Cranston is an artist, writer, and the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Otis College of Art and Design. Her recent exhibition at the Melistian Briggs Gallery is her fourth solo exhibition.

asher hartman

Asher Hartman is a writer, director, artist, teacher, and founder of Gawdafful National Theater. He was one of four writers whose texts provided the frameworks for the Hammer Museum’s Lifes.

Join the curators of Schindler House 100 on in-person tours of the Schindler House highlighting their unique individual perspectives on the exhibition.

Sarah Hearne

Sarah Hearne is an architectural historian, curator, and educator. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the Architecture Department. Hearne received her Ph.D in Architectural History from the UCLA with her dissertation “Other Things Visible on Paper: Architectural Writing and Imagining Craftsmanship 1960-87.”

Come to the Schindler House during visitor service hours 3:00PM — 4:30PM to receive a tarot reading by an invited guest from Renée Petropoulos as an extension programming of her shag carpet installation and proposal for the exhibition Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. Invited readers include: Jade Gordon (July 1)⁠, Meg Cranston⁠ (August 5), and Asher Hartman (September 2).

First come first serve and free with the price of admission.

Renée Petropoulos

Renée Petropoulos, a Los Angeles native, received her BA, MA, and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interest in pattern, repetition, and color is reflected through her public works such as the one found in the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line. She lives in Venice, California and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design in the Graduate Studies Department.

JADE GORDON

Jade Gordon is an artist, actress, and founding member of the theatrical art collective My Barbarian. My Barbarian recently had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art that traced their practice over the past two decades. Gordon has recently collaborated with Megan Whitmarsh for the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA.

MEG CRANSTON

Meg Cranston is an artist, writer, and the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Otis College of Art and Design. Her recent exhibition at the Melistian Briggs Gallery is her fourth solo exhibition.

asher hartman

Asher Hartman is a writer, director, artist, teacher, and founder of Gawdafful National Theater. He was one of four writers whose texts provided the frameworks for the Hammer Museum’s Lifes.

Come to the Schindler House during visitor service hours 3:00PM — 4:30PM to receive a tarot reading by an invited guest from Renée Petropoulos as an extension programming of her shag carpet installation and proposal for the exhibition Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. Invited readers include: Jade Gordon (July 1)⁠, Meg Cranston⁠ (August 5), and Asher Hartman (September 2).

First come first serve and free with the price of admission.

Renée Petropoulos

Renée Petropoulos, a Los Angeles native, received her BA, MA, and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interest in pattern, repetition, and color is reflected through her public works such as the one found in the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line. She lives in Venice, California and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design in the Graduate Studies Department.

JADE GORDON

Jade Gordon is an artist, actress, and founding member of the theatrical art collective My Barbarian. My Barbarian recently had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art that traced their practice over the past two decades. Gordon has recently collaborated with Megan Whitmarsh for the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA.

MEG CRANSTON

Meg Cranston is an artist, writer, and the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Otis College of Art and Design. Her recent exhibition at the Melistian Briggs Gallery is her fourth solo exhibition.

asher hartman

Asher Hartman is a writer, director, artist, teacher, and founder of Gawdafful National Theater. He was one of four writers whose texts provided the frameworks for the Hammer Museum’s Lifes.

Join the curators of Schindler House 100 on in-person tours of the Schindler House highlighting their unique individual perspectives on the exhibition.

Gary Riichirō Fox

Gary Riichirō Fox is an architectural historian and curator. He has curated exhibitions and research programs at Getty Research Institute where he's a Curatorial Assistant in architecture, and he leads a seminar in the Design Theory and Pedagogy program at SCI-Arc. Gary has studied at Yale University and the Architectural Association; he is currently completing a dissertation in history of architecture at UCLA where his research considers histories of aesthetic governance and environmental simulation.

As one of the earliest modernist house to invite contemporary art and architectural interventions into its home, the Schindler House has served as an exhibitionary model for a generation of cultural practitioners working to enliven domestic modernist sites. Exhibition-Making in the Modern House brings together former MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer and architecture curator and theorist Sylvia Lavin in dialogue on the opportunities, tensions, and contradictions that attend to exhibition-making in the modernist house. The discussion will draw from past projects while engaging with contemporary questions on the house as a system of display.

KIMBERLI MEYER

Kimberli Meyer is an independent cultural producer, curator, writer, and designer working across the fields of art and architecture. Meyer was director of University Art Museum at CSU Long Beach from 2016-2018, and director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House, from 2002-2016.

Sylvia lavin

Sylvia Lavin is a critic, curator, historian and theorist whose work explores the limits of architecture across a wide spectrum of historical periods. Past exhibitions Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects, Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and The Duck and the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedures.

Join us for the opening reception of Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making on May 28, 2022 from 7pm to 9pm.

In celebration of the centennial of the Schindler House, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents an expansive exhibition exploring the pivotal century of the landmark home and studio of the Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler. The exhibition Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making, features contributions by artists, architects and writers, including Carmen Argote, Reyner Banham, Anthony Carfello, Fiona Connor, Irving Gill, Julian Hoeber, Kathi Hofer, homeLA, Bernard Judge, Andrea Lenardin Madden, jas lin, Mai Ling, Esther McCoy, Renée Petropoulos, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, R.M. Schindler, Peter Shire, Jakob Sellaoui, Virginia Swenson, and Rosten Woo, among others. The exhibition is complemented by summer-long programming and events including lectures, reading groups, benefit events, edible performances, in-person curator-led tours, and asynchronous audio tours.

The exhibition Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making will be on view at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture through September 25, 2022. 

Centennial Council, MAK Center Patron-level members, and Supporters are invited to the VIP Reception of Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making on May 27, 2022, from 7pm to 9pm. The exhibition celebrating the centennial of the Schindler House will be on view at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture through September 25, 2022. 

The event is by invitation only.