In November 2013 owners of of 50 selected sites across Los Angeles county were prescribed one of four custom wildflower seed mixes based on their location. Participants were responsible for sowing, watering, weeding, and occasionally hunting gophers. Over the past few weeks we have been receiving reports from these Wildflowering L.A. sites. The first accounts ..
…and open call for applications for a radical seminary for communal retreat, embodied arts activity, and project development to inseminate Los Angeles with new forms of civic culture – visit the webpage for more details, the latest information and additional resources. + Now accepting applications for 9 to 13 spots to be filled on a rolling basis. + The summer session runs for ..
…tonight at the Berkeley Art Museum featured parades, masks, banners, and other things you need at an opening ceremony, and on the rug we did a durational movement activity with anyone who wanted to join (see 00:40 on this video from a 2009 project to get a sense of what it looked like), which was ..
…at her Kentfield home/studio – where she has lived and worked since 1945 – last night was a dream come true, joining around 30 other artists in the Berkeley Art Museum’s exhibition The Possible for a few hours with my hero for some fun and energetic movement ..
…the annual social practice art conference – where I had the pleasure of keynoting with Pablo Helguera and Julie Ault in 20111 – founded by Jen Delos Reyes in Portland has a great blog of 100 daily questions – to which I contributed yesterday’s entry – leading up to this years edition to be presented at the ..
…the just-premiered PBS-produced online video series visited me in LA today to film an upcoming episode, so get your old sheets, towels, clothes and textiles ready for your upcoming assignment. (tumblr ..
…is the name of the very soon-to-be-announced enrollment program starting this summer up on Sundown, where we are now adding a second geodesic dome (a 19′ diameter canvas structure which has been traveling as the mobile Sundown Schoolhouse for the past few years from the Hayward Gallery in London to the Liverpool Biennial to The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis) to ..
…this hot sunny winter’s afternoon brought together participants from many of the 50 sites across the county to the wild foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains of the Theodore Payne Foundation (a favorite place in the Los Angeles area, a special sanctuary to consider what our land was like before it was urbanized, and a primary inspiration for the Wildflowering L.A. project) ..
…on Eagle Rock Boulevard below my hill is the Wildflowering L.A. site – of the 50 spread across Los Angeles county – that I pass most often, and today I notice at least four or five different species in bloom, though probably another four to six weeks from p..
…another delicious rice tumeric porridge with fresh greens at Atwater Village artist-run cafe Thank You F..
…is a very occasional (open one day every few weeks 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am) very underground (garage) very small (one car space) artist project in the Westlake neighborhood of LA – which we finally had the chance to visit today – with a new installation, furniture, lighting, concept (raw red meat on the cafe tables and ..
…to Los Angeles this summer from June 1 to August 24th with a re-launched and re-configured to-be-announced 12 week enrollment program at the dome-headquarters that sort of picks up where we left off in 2006, with an open call for applications coming soon. (sign up for the email list to hear it first) sundownschoo..
…in downtown Los Angeles with rooftop farming friend Annie Novak (who is doing research for an upcoming book) was an inspiring/informative discovery, understanding how to grow food in this extreme industrial environment we were nerding-out on issues of irrigation, pollination, germination, decomposition, and general soil / ai..
…is coming along (beginning where we left off at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where about 8 feet was added), midway through an intense rug-crochet weekend, training my Domestic Integrities Rug Deputies in the official technique, which they will then instruct to museum visitors when I’m not around during the four month run of ..
…the village-like colonization of the beautiful brutalist Berkeley Art Museum by a community of makers organized by artist David Wilson – along with director Larry Rinder – was marked this morning by a gathering on the rug of the artists, before a tour of the show which includes a ceramics studio, dye lab, print shop, recording studio, ..
…always tastes better, where we are preparing for the installation of the traveling Domestic Integrities rug at the Berkeley Art Museum as a part of The Possible curated by artist Dav..
…overhead on a Malibu bea..
…presented by Robby Herbst at Human Resources – LA’s favorite community artist-run performance/art space – for ten days of activities, is where I went tonight to join a group of eight mostly familiar friendly faces for a couple hours of activity and conversation around general ideas of collectivism. I + We is an experimental and ..
…this morning included tomatoes (!) and peppers (!!) ripened in our recent unseasonably warm temps (and drought thanks to our Ridiculously Resilient Ridge while the Eastern and Midwestern US struggles with their Polar Vortex) in addition to the squashes, lemons and nasturtiums you might expect finding in an LA garden this tim..
…building somehow took me by complete surprise this afternoon – as I was exiting the cool West Third Street shop Chay – appearing across the street as a vision in white, a mysterious modern temple to the gods of unbridled urbanity, the mystery being how we keep the lights on and toilets flushing in this town, especially in ..
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