August 2010
DIY LA with Jen Smith and Mark Allen
Join Mark Allen and Jen Smith as we explore DIY culture in Los Angeles along with other special guests. Mark Allen will be speaking about the basics of starting your own (art/music/literature/whatever) space using Machine Project as an example. Jen Smith will lead a pickling workshop where you can create your own pickled sensations. Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator located in Los Angeles. He is the founder and director of Machine Project (www.machineproject.com), a non-profit performance/installation space…
Find out more »Portable City Projects: Economy of Gesture
Workshop with Owen Driggs, Evelyn Serrano, and Felipe Zuñiga In his revolutionary essay The New Art of Making Books (1965, Mexico City), Ulises Carrion states that: “the introduction of space into poetry (or rather of poetry into space) is an enormous event, literally of incalculable consequences”. Inspired by this powerful statement Economy of Gesture appropriates Sign Spinning – a contemporary advertising practice popular in southern California – to open a platform for experimentation and inquiry that asks who is authorized to speak in the…
Find out more »ASAP @ LACE: Teen Workshop – Building/Re-Building
3-Day Workshop starts Aug. 28 Saturday, August 28 9AM-1PM; Tuesday, August 31 6PM-10PM; Saturday, September 4 1PM-4PM In this three-day workshop teens will explore the architecture and design of Hollywood Boulevard with local architects Michael Hricak, Mia Lehrer, Michael Lehrer, and Carl Meyer. Learn to create maquettes, drawings, collages and other media to help you design and construct a new Hollywood. The three-day workshop includes tours of LACE's exhibition Public Interest 2010 and will conclude with a one-night exhibition of…
Find out more »September 2010
Portable City Projects: Public Action 2
Portable City Projects and LACE in the Neighborhood! Portable City and LACE are in the neighborhood for a day filled with sweeping and cleaning the area around LACE while getting to know the neighbors and asking them for opinions on Public Green Spaces. Portable City collaborates with Owen Driggs, GYST, Mere Hackleman and anyone else that wants to join in on the fun. Photos will be taken. An archive of public opinion will be created.
Find out more »Building/Re-Building Hollywood: ARTeen Opening Reception
ASAP @ LACE: ARTeen For the past week, teen participants in the ARTeen workshop have had the opportunity to re-design the streets of Hollywood under the guidance of local architects Michael Hricak, Mia Lehrer, Michael Lehrer, and Carl Meyer. Please join us for a one night exhibition that concludes the workshop and showcases the creations our young architects dreamed up.
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