An online panel discussion between the artists of DEMO and curator Anthony Carfello. Nazgol Ansarinia, Margarethe Drexel, Lexis-Olivier Ray, and Yan Tomaszewski share their artwork in the context of the exhibition DEMO, on view now at the MAK Center at the Schindler House.

An exhibition and series of four performances by multi-disciplinary artist Chris Emile, AMEND explores Black male identity through movement, cinema, sculpture and sound. Emile employs archival & contemporary found footage with artifactual set design to re-render the modern architectural marvel that is the Schindler House into a sacred, private place: a home amenable for Black dealing and healing. An intergenerational cast of three dancers acting as one man, move the audience through the house and through time working their way through the question: who, if not me, decides what a Black man is?

Presented by the Kennedy Center’s new online Couch Concert Series, multi-disciplinary artist Chris Emile presents a 30 minute solo performance accompanied by DJFM. The solo will take place in the MAK Center’s Garage Top, and will encompass the fleeting/hard hitting feelings of joy, anxiety, and unsureness that inhabit us all during these times. Following the performance by Chris Emile, meditation and movement practitioner Nkechi Njaka will be streamed with her partner Tauwoo from Northern California.

Experience the Lovell Health House and explore various practices and products at the forefront of alternative wellness, including Zizia Botanicals, Health-Ade Kombucha, Vegetarian Space Station and YOLA Mezcal. The event will also feature a sound bath led by artist Sonja Gerdes, and a presentation by author Lyra Kilston of her groundbreaking book Sun Seekers, a survey of SoCal modernism and alternative healing through design. Meditative stretching and astrological readings are also on the program.

The MAK Center invites you to attend the opening reception for the final projects of Group XLIX with Veronika Eberhart, Ting-Jung Chen, and Jakob Sellaoui.

Scoring, Building is a new project by Michelle JaJa Chang that investigates architecture as an allographic or notational art. The work is a temporary and durational intervention in the courtyard of the Mackey Apartments. The project proposes an architectural instantiation from the basis of a score, written by the architect, which is then translated into instructions for the construction of the installation itself. The work is action-based, slowing down and reframing the activities of conventional drywall construction to focus on-site preparation (measuring, documenting, marking); framing construction (stacking, ordering, assembling), and drywall installation (scoring, affixing, finishing), rather than material assemblage. The installation is scored in three recursive “iterations”, each one accompanied by a public program in order to unpack the ideas of the installation itself. Alongside the physical installation, the project is distributed through a live audio feed of the on-site construction, and documentary photography by Tag Christof. Scoring, Building is commissioned by Materials & Applications as the winning project of an open call for projects in 2018.

Scoring, Building is a new project by Michelle JaJa Chang that investigates architecture as an allographic or notational art. The work is a temporary and durational intervention in the courtyard of the Mackey Apartments. The project proposes an architectural instantiation from the basis of a score, written by the architect, which is then translated into instructions for the construction of the installation itself. The work is action-based, slowing down and reframing the activities of conventional drywall construction to focus on-site preparation (measuring, documenting, marking); framing construction (stacking, ordering, assembling), and drywall installation (scoring, affixing, finishing), rather than material assemblage. The installation is scored in three recursive “iterations”, each one accompanied by a public program in order to unpack the ideas of the installation itself. Alongside the physical installation, the project is distributed through a live audio feed of the on-site construction, and documentary photography by Tag Christof. Scoring, Building is commissioned by Materials & Applications as the winning project of an open call for projects in 2018.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents the exhibition catalog launch for Soft Schindler, published in collaboration with PIN-UP magazine. Artist Ian Markell interprets the works on view at the Schindler’s House in black and white photographs, accompanied by essays by writer Leslie Dick and journalist Susan Orlean.

Curator Mimi Zeiger will lead an exhibition walk-thru followed by a conversation between Ian Markell and Leslie Dick, moderated by PIN–UP editor/creative director Felix Burrichter.

Scoring, Building is a new project by Michelle JaJa Chang that investigates architecture as an allographic or notational art. The work is a temporary and durational intervention in the courtyard of the Mackey Apartments. The project proposes an architectural instantiation from the basis of a score, written by the architect, which is then translated into instructions for the construction of the installation itself. The work is action-based, slowing down and reframing the activities of conventional drywall construction to focus on-site preparation (measuring, documenting, marking); framing construction (stacking, ordering, assembling), and drywall installation (scoring, affixing, finishing), rather than material assemblage. The installation is scored in three recursive “iterations”, each one accompanied by a public program in order to unpack the ideas of the installation itself. Alongside the physical installation, the project is distributed through a live audio feed of the on-site construction, and documentary photography by Tag Christof. Scoring, Building is commissioned by Materials & Applications as the winning project of an open call for projects in 2018.