THE MACHINE PROJECT FIELD GUIDE TO THE LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
Date:
Saturday November 15, 2008
Time:
Noon til 10pm
Location:
LA County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
On November 15th, 2008, Machine Project is seizing control of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
We will be orchestrating ten hours of performances, workshops, and events that will experiment with LACMA’s encyclopedic collections and expansive grounds. Featuring over sixty projects dispersed across the seven-building, twenty-acre campus, visitors will be encouraged to explore the museum in new and unexpected ways.
Projects sited throughout the museum include a robotic Netsuke head, a glow-in-the-dark unicorn, a man in a suit made of pepper cans, an audio tour of ambient gallery sounds, and a painting reproduced in flowers. A bank of elevators will be inhabited by trios of musicians including a gamelan orchestra, mariachi band, and fife and drum corps. Visitors can try to solve the interactive murder mystery using clues scattered across the museum grounds. The BP Grand Court will become a temporary Mission Control Center with electronics workshops, a video feedback installation of the day’s events, and an evening screening with performances and readings. There will also be craft workshops, mobile musical aliens, gallery massages, a handout of invisible performances, replicas made from LACMA’s trash, a lost nose, and much, much, more.
Artists participating in the project include:
Jacinto Astiazarán, Fritz Haeg and Flora Wiegmann
Matthew Au
Joshua Beckman
Jason Brown
Cheryl Cambras
The Center for Tactical Magic
Ken Ehrlich
Fallen Fruit
Jim Fetterly
Liz Glynn
Hooliganship
Jessica Hutchins and Dawn Kaspar
Stephanie Hutin and Florencio Zavala
ing
The Institute for Figuring
Walter Kitundu
Emily Lacy
Karen Lofgren
Lucky Dragons
Anthony McCann
monome
Takeshi Murata
Annie O’Malley
Michael O’Malley
Adam Overton
Nate Page
Kamau Patton
The Public School
Casey Rentz
Douglas Irving Repetto
Daniel Richert and Mathew Timmons
Phil Ross
Kelly Sears
Robin Sukhadia
Laura Steenberge
Ryan Taber
Jason Torchinsky
Holly Vesecky
and exciting special guests.
This project is co-funded by LACMA’s public programs and the Ralph M Parsons Endowment.
One day only!! Tickets to the event are available for standard LACMA admission prices. Admission to the museum and show are FREE for all Machine Project members.
Machine Project is a home for artists, hackers, poets, programmers, musicians and enthusiasts of all kinds. We serve these communities as a venue for new work, with particular interest in interdisciplinary collaborations. We regularly provide the public with free arts programming in an environment that encourages curiosity and active engagement. We offer a wide range of classes and workshops with an arts and technology focus, putting knowledge tools into the hands of our community and giving them the ability to create work of their own. In the pursuit of new models of collaboration, we promote conversations between scientists, poets, technicians, performers, and the communities of Los Angeles as a whole.
Info:http://www.machineproject.com/lacma
Contact:
Liz Glynn
213.483.8761
lizglynn@machineproject.com
http://www.machineproject.com
