Another LA Is Possible Parts One and Two is a two part exhibition I've organizing with my students at Otis College of Art and Design. Its basic form is call & response. Part One is the call, Part Two is the response.
Participants in Part One are artists, architects & urbanists; all exploring ways to be in LA beyond a cookie cutter existence: Homegrown Evolution, Sandra de la Loza, Stephanie Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang and Michael Parker.
Part One of the exhibition is taking place in a non-traditional space, the glass-cabinet of the
hallway connecting a parking garage and Lincoln Boulevard. The building is the a redevelopment of an Los Angeles Airport area hotel into the first permitted "mulit-use" residential complex in LA.
The exhibition is mainly trafficked by the buildings' residents, and the show takes advantage of that context. Participants where suggested to use the glass cases to make "didactic displays" to in a sense "teach" how they see other ways we can live together in the city.
Self Irrigating Pots are a planting system that is well suited for apartment dwellers. They are efficient users of water as well as space. For their display case Homegrown Evolution chose to write up, for residents of the building, directions for making there own self irrigating pots. The photo to the left was taken at a workshop held at the building- here Erik and Kelly are explaining apartment gardening techniques.
For the exhibition social architect Stephanie Smith has turned one of the glass cases into a free shelf. This is a graphic she's created suggesting ways that free shelves can be used
This is a schematic drawing from Wu for the neon light they've put in his case at Another LA Is Possible. The light says both Convivencia and Existence on it. Wu explained that convivencia "is a word that has come up a lot through my silver platter
organizing. it's a way people often talk about the social space and it
doesn't have a direct english translation. politically historically it
refers to "peaceful coexistence" but it also implies "sharing," which
creates a kind of contradiction that i think really complexifies my
understanding of community. particularly in terms of doing
wildness, or any art project anywhere that is site responsive. i
haven't seen your vitrines but i imagine that at least symbollically
they may pose similar questions."
Part Two of Another LA Is Possible opens Dec. 10th. For that and the rest of the work in Part One check it out your self. Shows are iup through January at 18001 Lincoln Boulevard, in LA.
Participants in Part One are artists, architects & urbanists; all exploring ways to be in LA beyond a cookie cutter existence: Homegrown Evolution, Sandra de la Loza, Stephanie Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang and Michael Parker.
Part One of the exhibition is taking place in a non-traditional space, the glass-cabinet of the hallway connecting a parking garage and Lincoln Boulevard. The building is the a redevelopment of an Los Angeles Airport area hotel into the first permitted "mulit-use" residential complex in LA.
The exhibition is mainly trafficked by the buildings' residents, and the show takes advantage of that context. Participants where suggested to use the glass cases to make "didactic displays" to in a sense "teach" how they see other ways we can live together in the city.
Self Irrigating Pots are a planting system that is well suited for apartment dwellers. They are efficient users of water as well as space. For their display case Homegrown Evolution chose to write up, for residents of the building, directions for making there own self irrigating pots. The photo to the left was taken at a workshop held at the building- here Erik and Kelly are explaining apartment gardening techniques.For the exhibition social architect Stephanie Smith has turned one of the glass cases into a free shelf. This is a graphic she's created suggesting ways that free shelves can be usedThis is a schematic drawing from Wu for the neon light they've put in his case at Another LA Is Possible. The light says both Convivencia and Existence on it. Wu explained that convivencia "is a word that has come up a lot through my silver platter
organizing. it's a way people often talk about the social space and it
doesn't have a direct english translation. politically historically it
refers to "peaceful coexistence" but it also implies "sharing," which
creates a kind of contradiction that i think really complexifies my
understanding of community. particularly in terms of doing
wildness, or any art project anywhere that is site responsive. i
haven't seen your vitrines but i imagine that at least symbollically
they may pose similar questions."Part Two of Another LA Is Possible opens Dec. 10th. For that and the rest of the work in Part One check it out your self. Shows are iup through January at 18001 Lincoln Boulevard, in LA.
