All Programs
Puppet Show & Closing Reception at Young Architects Program
Join us for a puppet show in partnership with Bob Baker Marionette Theater at Young Architects Program (YAP)! Watch Leah Wulfman and Jin Meisenberg’s inflatable and deflatable forms become activated and animated with exciting puppet performances!
This program is free and accessible to all ages. We recommend participants arrive early to secure a spot outside the storefront and encourage audiences to bring a blanket, folding chairs, or cushions to make the viewing experience more comfortable. Please note that there is no bathroom at the storefront.
Young Architects Program (YAP), a collaboration between Leah Wulfman and 5-year-old Jin Meisenberg, invites participants to bounce upon their understanding of space through an inflatable video game and mixed reality architecture installation.
Through a series of asynchronous discussions and collaborative drawing exercises, Jin and Leah continuously imagined and brought to life the other’s images and interpretations. Young architects and forever kids can similarly freely reinterpret, reenvision, and remap the inflatable and deflatable architectural forms within the exhibition. With crayon and marker in hand, participants of all ages have the agency to be game and space makers, bridging physical and digital play learning as their own paper crayon drawings are live projection mapped onto the inflatables and existing drawings.
The two- and three-dimensional inflated forms and drawn reinterpretations play off common architectural elements and features, toy blocks and kit-of-parts building toys, but tend instead toward queer means and ends. In concept and as full-scale inflatables, the toys flop over one another; they sag, they deflate, they inflate, they get soft, they get hard, they pile and plug into each other.
Puppet Show at Young Architects Program!
Join us for a puppet show in partnership with Bob Baker Marionette Theater at Young Architects Program (YAP)! Watch Leah Wulfman and Jin Meisenberg’s inflatable and deflatable forms become activated and animated with exciting puppet performances!
This program is free and accessible to all ages. We recommend participants arrive early to secure a spot outside the storefront and encourage audiences to bring a blanket, folding chairs, or cushions to make the viewing experience more comfortable. Please note that there is no bathroom at the storefront.
Young Architects Program (YAP), a collaboration between Leah Wulfman and 5-year-old Jin Meisenberg, invites participants to bounce upon their understanding of space through an inflatable video game and mixed reality architecture installation.
Through a series of asynchronous discussions and collaborative drawing exercises, Jin and Leah continuously imagined and brought to life the other’s images and interpretations. Young architects and forever kids can similarly freely reinterpret, reenvision, and remap the inflatable and deflatable architectural forms within the exhibition. With crayon and marker in hand, participants of all ages have the agency to be game and space makers, bridging physical and digital play learning as their own paper crayon drawings are live projection mapped onto the inflatables and existing drawings.
The two- and three-dimensional inflated forms and drawn reinterpretations play off common architectural elements and features, toy blocks and kit-of-parts building toys, but tend instead toward queer means and ends. In concept and as full-scale inflatables, the toys flop over one another; they sag, they deflate, they inflate, they get soft, they get hard, they pile and plug into each other.
Futuring
Videography by Jay Lamars
This program was the culmination of a three-part series hosted within We Carry the Land: reorienting, extending, and now futuring. We transformed the project into a projection surface that presented videos, short films, and digital works by Indigenous artists in pursuit of dynamic futures.
Participants included Margeaux Abeyta, Fritz Bitsoie, Olivia Camfield, Roberto Fatal, Mariah Hernandez-Fitch, Anjelica Gallegos, Jay Lamars, Suzanne Kite, Maria Maea, Selina Martinez, AnMarie Mendoza, Jazmin Romero, Bobby Joe Smith III, and Isaac Ybarra.
Photography by Bianca Montoya
We Carry the Land was an architectural exploration of space, time, and form born from an alignment of varied Indigenous foundational ways of being, designed for and installed in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard in summer 2024.
This event was free and accessible to all.
Summer Supper
Videography by Jay Lamars
On the final weekend of We Carry the Land, we gathered in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard to share a toast to our summer programs and to look ahead, together, toward our next seasons.
We were excited to celebrate over to-order tacos and tamales by Irekuarhikua, desserts by Kitchen Sink, a DJ set by BROWNSKINHAZEL, beverages provided by AMASS, Brez, Ghia, and NON, goodie bags with items from Bachan’s, Greenlight, Looshi, örlö, Onyx, P.f. Candle Co., and Vacation, and a silent auction featuring Etkie, Jesse Hammer, Mahota Textiles, and Sticky Glass.
Photos by Oscar Mendoza
This event was ticketed to cover costs and provide support to M&A as we develop our upcoming exhibitions and public programs.
Extending
We welcomed you to a conversation moderated by Joel Garcia, artist and director of Meztli Projects, an organization dedicated to the creative development of Native and Indigenous creatives, and featuring Daisy Echeverri of Yerberia Mayahuel and Caracol Marketplace, and Omeatl of Hunait Tepec, on Saturday, July 27 from 12-3pm at our summer 2024 installation, We Carry the Land, in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
Extending offered We Carry the Land as a space to support forms of reciprocity and kinship led by local Indigenous voices, exploring what it means to be a temporary presence on the land.
This conversation centered the decades-long efforts by Indigenous land stewards in Los Angeles to create and nurture land-based projects of self-sustainability, ancestral knowledge transmission, and cultural revitalization guided by a deep connection to the First Peoples of Los Angeles, specifically the Tongva and Tataviam communities.
This program was free and accessible to all.
Daisy Echeverri is a Master Gardener, community-based herbalist, and medicine maker who has been a vital contributor to the garden ecosystem of Los Angeles and lead organizer for one of the longest-running marketplaces centering plant relatives and knowledge.
Omeatl is an artist, land steward, and a lead organizer for projects such Hunait Tepec, the radio program La Voz Del Pueblo (The Peoples Voice) on KQBH 101.5 FM, El Semillero in Boyle Heights, and previously the Zapotepec Agricultural School, a garden oasis in East Los Angeles.
Young Architects Program (YAP) Opening Reception
Thank you for joining us for the opening of Young Architects Program (YAP)!
The inflatable and deflatable architectural forms that emerged from a long-distance collaboration between Leah Wulfman and 5-year-old Jin Meisenberg were open to draw, play, and engage with as the sun set. We shared treats, cake by Celeste Perkins, and drinks in celebration of the launch of our 2024 Storefront Project Space installation!
Young Architects Program (YAP)
Photos by Alma Ramos.
Young Architects Program (YAP), a collaboration between Leah Wulfman and 5-year-old Jin Meisenberg, invites participants to bounce upon their understanding of space through an inflatable video game and mixed reality architecture installation.
Through a series of asynchronous discussions and collaborative drawing exercises, Jin and Leah continuously imagined and brought to life the other’s images and interpretations. Young architects and forever kids can similarly freely reinterpret, reenvision, and remap the inflatable and deflatable architectural forms within the exhibition. With crayon and marker in hand, participants of all ages have the agency to be game and space makers, bridging physical and digital play learning as their own paper crayon drawings are live projection mapped onto the inflatables and existing drawings.
The two- and three-dimensional inflated forms and drawn reinterpretations play off common architectural elements and features, toy blocks and kit-of-parts building toys, but tend instead toward queer means and ends. In concept and as full-scale inflatables, the toys flop over one another; they sag, they deflate, they inflate, they get soft, they get hard, they pile and plug into each other.
As a column becomes a chimney with balloons becomes a tower becomes a mountain, doors and windows open up new spaces and stories, promoting an iterative retelling of the architectural forms and elements.
YAP is part of our M&A Storefront co-residency program, a series of spatialized, transdisciplinary collaborations that aim to reject and confound the divisive effects of disciplinarity.
An Introduction by Jin Ketevan Georgia Meisenberg:
“This is a fairy house,
This is a funny dinosaur - a rhinoceros,
This is for me like a big funny dinosaur and it is t.rex,
This is for me a rainbow angel.
It’s super special, it can make hoops, and turns like a good good flyer.
This is a sand-clock house, it can fly it has 3 crowns on it that’s why, it can fly.
This is an eye house, it has something special, the eyes can move, close and it can fly.
This is the littlest thinnest house, it can transform into a tree or a big big eye ball
The biggest biggest biggest house from all is something even more special, it is a rainbow dot, they are super special, they can fly and jump away. But the most special is the spiral on top of the house, it has pink dots, they are super special as they can swim inside of the spiral. And because I love uzumaki! Uzumaki means spiral, and it is a story. It is a little bit scary. Because everyone loves uzumaki!
Hm I think it’s a little clock for me inside of a rainbow rainbow house—people make rainbows inside, they make them with stardust and water and rainbow colors, glitter, and of course, stars, nothing else. They can do hundred sixty forty eight rainbows in one night. These rainbows are Special as they can fly, jump, pee and make kaka.
A House inside, they just sleep for the whole day they don’t do anything they are just bored because they are sleepyheads, if someone asks them to make food they say later. They sleep for their whole lives, they don’t care at all!
Bored people! They are all sleepyheads!
They don’t want to get up later! They just lie in bed. Sleepy bored sleepy cleany.
This is a wheel home, no it’s a rocket!
It can fly to the galaxy. In the middle of the galaxy, there is the biggest wave, the biggest black hole, when you go through it you disappear, you don’t come back. It’s like death. It kills you. It’s painful, you never can go back, you are just dead. It looks like magic, but it kills you!
A flying home, a chicken home, it says bok bok bok, no it say kukeldifooooo, it walks like a chicken. And it has a chicken tail.
It’s a waterhome where water comes out—they make water just out of water! They squirt it out of the home. To make everyone wet! They just have fun.
Images
Drawings & Renderings
Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect, educator, game designer, digital puppeteer, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect, Wulfman has been assembling hybrid virtual and physical spaces to prototype new relationships to technology and nature and challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture. In addition to mixed reality installations that play with and emphasize the physical, material basis of everything digital, they are presently working on a research series focusing on gamified environments, interactions, and materials. Such mixed reality ecologies and interactions find their foundations in disability, trans, and queer embodied practice and politics, and operate as lenses to reconfigure and recontextualize space and time orientations in architectural discourse beyond the normative.
Wulfman holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Masters of Arts in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. They have taught at numerous institutions in the United States, including ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices Graduate Program, IDEAS Program at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, SCI-Arc, The School of Architecture at Taliesin, and most recently University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where they have developed youth programming and mixed reality coursework. Leah is now at the University of Utah’s College of Architecture and Planning, where they are currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD).
Jin Ketevan Georgia Meisenberg is 5 years old. I was born in 16 November of 2024. Leah came to NY, and we have another family member that is named Lia. I was swinging on the 24th on a chair. I have a lot of fun, and I will put my legs up and I will fly like an Astronaut. I am from NY — from Queens! No Brooklyn!
Project Credits
Young Architects Program (YAP) is generously supported via material research assistance provided by Seth Richardson, Owen Vollick-Offer, Emma Caroline Davis, Enrique Mora, and Jules Gershman, game development assistance from Spencer Reay, and projection mapping assistance from Merel Noorlander.
Special thanks to: Anne K.E. and Florian Meisenberg, The Architectural League of New York & the University of Utah’s Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD).
Reorienting: Ancestor Geography & Mapping Indigenous Futurity
M&A and the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD) collaborated for a conversation and workshop with Miriam Diddy and River Garza that explored ideas of mapping tangible and intangible cultural elements that reinforce sovereignty, collective power, and futurity.
As the original inhabitants and stewards of lands and waters, Indigenous peoples have resiliently carried traditions and culture through generations. Throughout history, many Indigenous mapmakers drew both space and knowledge across time. The first cartographers mapped connections across land to relatives utilizing community and ancestral thinking as planning principles to design. Understanding foundational planning principles of seven-generation design, community and multigenerational interconnectedness, and stewardship can foster holistic worldviews in practices today. What does Ancestor Geography & Mapping Indigenous Futurity look like today and how can it influence design practice? In this workshop, participants created maps to their ancestors using their own language, memories, experiences, and dreams.
This workshop was free and accessible to all.
Miriam Diddy is a planner and GIS specialist based in Albuquerque, NM. With ten years of mapping, planning, and design experience for tribal communities, her work builds upon both the tangible and intangible elements of planning. Born and raised in New Mexico as a Diné and Hopi woman, her work focuses on bridging the ties between the contemporary built environment and cultural narratives that honor and recognize the resiliency of indigenous people in everyday places. Miriam is Regional Director of Deserts & Xeric Shrublands for the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning & Design (ISAPD).
River T. Garza (b.1994) is an Indigenous interdisciplinary visual Artist based out of Los Angeles. Garza is Tongva, Mexican, and he is a member of Ti’at Society. His work draws on traditional Tongva aesthetics, Southern California Indigenous maritime culture, Chicano culture, Mexican art, graffiti, skateboarding, and lowrider art. Garza often explores the intersection of Tongva and Chicano/Mexican identity, history, and culture through his art practice. His work can be found in permanent and private collections.
Adobe Brick-making and Plastering with Selina Martinez
Using local materials, participants explored decorative natural plastering and earth pigmenting techniques on adobe block. Through collective building exercises, participants learned about the many qualities that earthen building components offer that more dominant construction materials do not.
This workshop was held at We Carry the Land in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard as part of an ongoing partnership. This workshop was limited to 12 participants and cost $80 to cover the cost of materials.
We Carry the Land Artists’ Walkthrough
Thank you for joining us on Sunday, May 26th for coffee and an intimate walkthrough with some of the designers of We Carry the Land at the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
This event was free and open to all ages.
We Carry the Land
We Carry the Land, installation view, 2024. Photo courtesy of Craft Contemporary. Image: Marc Walker
We Carry the Land is an architectural exploration of space, time, and form born from an alignment of varied Indigenous foundational ways of being, designed for and installed in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard this Summer 2024. Rooted in the sacredness of the natural world and informed by experiences of territorial geographic relocation, the project presents a spatial identity of what it means to be a part of the Indigenous diaspora; grounded, yet simultaneously flexible.
Through material and structural engagements with existing infrastructure, the project introduced a fluctuating experience of the sacred and intimate to the courtyard. An existing circle inscribed in the concrete ground, the remnant of a primary entry revolving door for a building that once stood in the space, became an anchor for the spatial intervention. In its place, a new circle was built up with heavy earth and juxtaposed with the soft lightness of a flowing curtain system above. While the earthen material highlighted the circle, a unifying symbol in various Indigenous cultures, the curtain system extended across the courtyard, representing expansive transformation and the dynamism of movements and exchanges between pasts and possible futures.
We Carry the Land presented the two-fold idea of anomaly: the paradoxical notion of a dynamic ground plane and the enduring presence of American Indian peoples despite efforts of erasure.
We Carry the Land, installation view, 2024. Courtesy of Craft Contemporary. Photo: Marc Walker
We Carry the Land is designed by six emerging Native architectural and graphic designers. Recognizing the diversity of Indian Tribes, individual identities, and shared experiences with U.S. Indian laws and policies, the group work reflects a coming together of unique communities, spatial experiences with multiple lands and waters, archival work, and traditional and new technologies.
Celina Brownotter is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Diné designer passionate about collaborating with Native communities. Her research focuses on how culture, beliefs, and traditions can positively affect Lakota tribal housing. Having grown up on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, she is a steadfast advocate for place-based design.
Anjelica S. Gallegos (Jicarilla Apache Nation and Pueblo of Santa Ana) pushes boundaries of design thought and practice, especially in sensitive environments like the Southwest, Arctic, and New England coast. Anjelica is the co-founder and director of the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD), a 2023 Fulcrum Fund recipient, an ambassador of President Obama’s Generation Indigenous Initiative, and has served in public relations for the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
Freeland Livingston (Diné | Navajo) is an architectural designer interested in the intersection of technology, contemporary life, and traditional Indigenous teachings. Using computational tools has been central to his work, whether in academic design or mixed reality documentation. Freeland has over ten years of experience in architecture, seven of which he’s worked with Native communities within the Navajo region of the US.
Selina Martinez is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Xicana, currently pursuing her architectural license.
She was awarded the US Artists Fellowship (2024) and a Radical Imagination Grant (2020) from the NDN Collective to establish Juebenaria, a project providing an evolving collection of a plurality of Yaqui lived experiences through digital media. She has taught at ASU and is also the cofounder of Design Empowerment Phoenix.
Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Indigenous designer and media artist from the Hunkpapa and Oohenumpa Lakota tribes. His research draws from the decolonial, abolitionist, and post-apocalyptic strategies of Black and Indigenous people, and his works seek to reveal vectors leading toward decolonial futures and resonate with the people and movements that comprise his community.
Zoë Toledo is Diné Asdzáán, a member of the Navajo Nation, and, as both a designer and researcher, engages in a practice of narrative change. She teaches design studios at ASU, co-founded the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective, and has been published in The Avery Review.
We extend gratitude to a constellation of mentors and guides, including architects Tammy Eagle Bull, Sean Connelly, Bob Ramirez, and R. Scott Mitchell.
We Carry the Land, installation view, 2024. Courtesy of Craft Contemporary. Photo: Marc Walker
We Carry the Land was generously supported by The Graham Foundation and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional funding from the California Arts Council and Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
For a full list of M&A’s sponsors, visit our Thank You page.
Past Events
Read the press release here.
We Carry the Land Opening Reception
Thank you for joining us as we celebrated the opening of We Carry the Land in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard, along with Craft Contemporary’s new indoor exhibitions, Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories and 3B Collective: Highway Hypnosis. Guests enjoyed first access to the projects, complimentary beverages, and live DJ music.
Materials & Applications members and Craft Contemporary members had free entry. Other guests were $12. For more information about this reception, please click here.
Sonic Dust Live Activation
Sonic Dust explores the material, metaphor, and mobile conditions of dust, smog, and smoke and the generative engagements between beings and space. Inherently liminal as something both precarious and dynamic, dust is a formless challenger of form that subverts economies of order from architecture’s materiality, to the binary of cleanliness/dirtiness, to a possible method for “de-in-visibilizing” matter we otherwise ignore.
Day/Dream Closing
Day/Dream, a collaborative spatial project on Sunset Boulevard by artist Sara Suárez and architect Regina Teng, closes on September 24.
Day/Dream: Melting Soundscapes by Martancho
M&A was excited to present Melting Soundscapes, a performance by sound artist Martancho (Martín Velez), inside the Day/Dream installation. Melting Soundscapes was a live, generative sound piece exploring ice as a sonic material, creating intricate textures as it melted, cracked and transformed.
Doors opened at 7:30 PM and the performance began at 8:00 PM.
Melting Soundscapes was free to attend. We accepted material drop-offs for HEAT AID during the program, and a list of recommended items is here.
Born in Bogota, Martín Velez (AKA Martancho) lives in the Los Angeles area. Martín’s work combines music, sound, science, and technology into single interactive experiences that aim to cultivate social consciousness and self-awareness within audiences at a personal and environmental level. His installation works have been presented in Los Angeles and Bogota. Martín holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Sound Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota and a Master in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts.
Present Continuous
Thank you for joining us for an evening gathering in the shadow of Black — Still on its closing day, September 10th as we raised a toast to our 2023 summer projects and recognized the generosity of our community across LA that is critical to sustaining a vibrant landscape of cultural production in architecture.
Present Continuous, a celebration of our past, present, and ongoing commitment to experiments in public space, featured a taco bar, drinks by Amass, Health-Ade, Topo Chico, and Sanzo, donuts from Trejo’s Donuts, music by Boneless Pizza, ceramics by Vincent Yung, florals from Muddy Heaven, and goodies sponsored by Capsule Parfumerie, Fly by Jing, Plunge, and Vacation.
Photography by Christopher Lee
Many thanks to our Host Committee: Benjamin Ball, Honora Shea, Jia Yi Gu, Mira Henry, and Mimi Zeiger; and our M&A Board of Directors: Abigail Smith, Kimberli Meyer, Mishal Hashmi, Warren Techentin, and V. Mitch McEwen.
This event was ticketed to cover costs and provide support to M_A as we develop our upcoming exhibitions and public programs.
Black — Still: Celebration
This was a celebratory penultimate afternoon at Black — Still among stalls and stands featuring Black-owned art, craft, and cultural businesses.
Vendors included Bless the Theory, Brookai, Creations by Hellena, Epiphany Soaps & Blends, Jade Vine Jewelry, Junie Bees Butta, Lucas Pincer-Flynn, Otts & Kulcha, Paige René Body Essentials, SampleHAUS, and Soul Food Company.
Food was provided by Crenshaw Coffee Co., D. Lo’s Kitchen, and Vurger Guyz with DJ sets by feeemz + Professor X.
RSVPs were encouraged; this event was free and open to the public.
Black — Still: Restoration
12pm-1:30pm: Workshop with the Center for Restorative Justice Works
2pm-3:30pm: Meditation with Jylani Ma’at
At 12pm, the afternoon kicked off with a workshop presented by the Center For Restorative Justice Works introducing how people at an individual level can become involved in compassionate activism. The workshop included an introduction to restorative justice, non-violent and healthy communication and conflict resolution, and the importance of community and relationships in the role of healing.
All ages were encouraged to attend this workshop.
Following the workshop, at 2pm, Jylani Ma’at led groups in meditation. In Ma’at’s words, Black still*ness is an opportunity to sit in and with many B/blacknesses via an exploration of the senses. Ma’at guided visitors in exercises of simple embodiment and presence toward a sense of peace and well-being.
There were multiple meditation sessions, each limited to 10 participants.
These workshops were free and open to the public. RSVPs were encouraged.
Black — Still presents...Deluge
Videography by Alex Girav
Black — Still was an evening of ambient and experimental sound from boundary-pushing artists and performers algorythm.code, 6999, and Kelman Duran featuring Harmony Holiday.
Photography by Alex Girav
Black — Still was activated with a set of site-specific soundscapes, creating a heightened engagement between visitors and the installation. The interior of the installation was reserved as a space for guests to immerse themselves in deep listening, with the surrounding courtyard acting as a space for connection and conversation. Together, the space became an environment for introspection and communal engagement around the radical possibilities of Black space and sound.
Doors opened at 4:30pm, and performances began at 5:30pm.
Deluge is a music performance series that seeks to explore the depths and outer reaches of ambient, experimental, and avant-garde sound. The series aims to create environments for deep listening and discourse around innovative work with a focus on BIPOC artists, building upon the rich landscape of ambient and experimental music performance in Los Angeles with a socially and critically engaged approach.
Day/Dream: Readings with Vanessa Holyoak and hannah rubin
Join us for an evening with Vanessa Holyoak and hannah rubin as they share new literary work, surrounded by the refracted light and water projections of Day/Dream.
Black — Still: Narratives
12pm-1:30: Storytelling with A New Way of Life
2pm-3:30: Affirmations with BEAM
At noon, A New Way of Life sharedd their “Testif-i | Storytelling for Change” platform, which empowers formerly incarcerated women and their children to share their truth, trauma, and triumph. This day’s Testif-i session was offered by moderator Pamela Marshall and Evie, a member of the 2022 Testif-i cohort. Attendees first listened to Evie's 2022 Testif-i testimony and then joined them in an intimate conversation and learned more about their experiences with mass incarceration and reentry.
As this was an intimate event, participation was limited to 20. This workshop was best suited to adults as content may have been difficult and emotional, but also empowering and uplifting.
The afternoon continued with the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective’s (BEAM) “Dear Black People” affirmation project, designed to disrupt public space by providing messages of radical love for Black people. Each affirmation spoke to some of the unique challenges that different Black communities face, and provided a reframing dialogue that combated narratives of self-hate rooted in patriarchy, sexism, transphobia, and homophobia. BEAM is, additionally, a resource that provides guidance on mental health services, events, tools, etc. to support folks on their healing journeys.
Participation in BEAM’s workshop was limited to 20.
These events were free and open to the public. RSVPs were required.
Black — Still: Movement
Schedule
12pm-1:30
Yoga with Sonya Om
2pm-3:30
Movement with Ajani Brannum
The afternoon will begin at 12pm with a yoga session for all ages led by Sonya Om. The session will feature classical yoga practice for all levels and include postures, breathing practices, deep relaxation, and meditation. Anyone can join, and modifications will be offered.
The afternoon concludes 2-3:30pm with a workshop with movement artist Ajani Brannum. What can our bodies teach us about liberation? Better yet, what do they remember about it? In this workshop, we'll talk about, reflect on, and move with "the fullness of [our] depth of feeling" (to quote Audre Lorde). This session will be an invitation to practice right relation with ourselves, other beings, and the land that holds us.
Brannum’s movement workshop is most appropriate for folks ages 18 and up. Participants are encouraged to bring something to write with and on. This workshop will be limited to 15 participants.
These events are free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.
Black — Still: Opening
Join us for the opening of Black – Still.
The afternoon begins as designers Megan Echols and Dana McKinney White of enFOLD Collective present an opening-day talk and walkthrough of the M&A summer installation in the M_A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard.
The walkthrough is followed by an immersive sound bath experience offered by Dr. Kischa Campbell. By utilizing a number of instruments, including crystal chakra sound bowls, chimes, and drums, we will combine our energies to create an environment of healing.
The sound baths are recommended for adults and kids over the age of 10 (and younger, if they can be still for an extended period of time). Sound bath participants are encouraged to bring a yoga mat/seating cushion, comfortable clothing, and other comforts such as an eye mask.
This event is part of a series centering health and wellness, taking place throughout Summer 2023 in our installation, Black — Still, designed by artists enFOLD Collective. Read more about Black – Still here.
Black — Still
Black – Still is a multi-sensory installation by the interdisciplinary practice enFOLD Collective.
Day/Dream
Day/Dream is a collaborative spatial project on Sunset Boulevard by artist Sara Suárez and architect Regina Teng.
Gathering Tides: Live Dream Journal Reading
Join M_A for the culmination of the Gathering Tides Dreaming Workshop Series. Through this series of workshop sessions guided by artist Sara Suárez, participants have generated a collective dream journal interweaving our nighttime wanderings, visions, and sensations. This shared archive will shape a collaborative installation by Suárez and architect Regina Teng in the M_A Storefront project space.
In this live group reading of our collective dream journal, we will explore, reflect on, and give voice to this “reservoir” of dreams and create voice recordings that will be included in the sound composition and installation designed by Suárez and Teng.
The group reading will start at 3:30 pm. Stop by anytime between 3-6 to contribute and discover dreams, create voice recordings, and meet new friends.
The event is free to attend and all are welcome. We would appreciate it if you could RSVP here.
Gathering Tides IV
Join M_A for a fourth workshop that ventures into the mutable, evolving landscape of sleep and dreaming. Through artist-led dream sharing, collective writing, and conversation, our night-time dreams become an abundant and generative resource that shapes a collaborative installation concept by artist Sara Suárez and designer Regina Teng for the M_A Storefront opening in Spring 2023.
This 2-hour workshop, guided by Sara Suárez, is part of a generative series that aims to produce a “reservoir” of dream content. Participants will explore new forms of vulnerability and intimacy that reframe collective dreaming as an open, plastic space that may reveal and cultivate radical modes of relationality, community care, and futurist speculation. The installation that will take shape from this shared archive of images, sensations, symbols, and stories will complement HEAT AID 2023.
With permission, materials generated in this workshop will be incorporated into the physical space, opening in spring 2023, and participants will be credited as project contributors.
Participation is free. This session will take place virtually (via Zoom), and a Zoom link will be circulated following your RSVP.
Gathering Tides is a series of workshops held in the winter of 2022-2023. These workshops will explore interconnectivities and relationalities vis a vis dream-sharing workshops, each uniquely sited across Los Angeles or online. An installation at the M&A Storefront will emerge from the collection of shared dreams. This orientation around dreaming situates the M_A Storefront in the past, present, and future, all the while reflecting on the necessity of resource-sharing, mutual aid, and material reuse as embodied by its coexistence in the space with HEAT AID.
Sara Suárez is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across experimental film, sound composition and social practice, interested in sensory and spatial perception, shared spaces and landscapes, collective memory, and co-creative processes.
Her works include visual and sonic landscape studies that incorporate audio collage, electronic composition, and analog film processes. She is currently developing a collection of work considering the physical and social experiences of darkness, sleep, and dreaming, and the forces that degrade these essential needs. Her work has been featured by LA Filmforum, Slamdance, Alchemy Film Festival, ICDOCS, Chicago Underground Film Festival and other venues.
Suárez is also the co-founder of virtual care lab, an interdisciplinary project platform and creative community interrogating issues of care, solidarity, co-creation, and trust in virtual space. She completed her MFA at CalArts and works in Los Angeles.
Regina Teng is an architectural designer and founding principal of GINAA. Her work focuses on the atmospheric intersections of environment, nature, and culture. A native Angeleno, she has worked and exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo, Sydney, Zurich, Shanghai and the UK. Regina’s current research examines the potential for optic caustics, the reflection, refraction, and projection of light through materials, to operate as part of a passive thermal strategy.
She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and has taught previously at USC, UCLA, and Princeton University.
Gathering Tides III
Join M_A for a workshop that ventures into the mutable, evolving landscape of sleep and dreaming. Through artist-led dream sharing, collective writing, and conversation, our night-time dreams become an abundant and generative resource that shapes a collaborative installation concept by artist Sara Suárez and designer Regina Teng for the M_A Storefront opening in Spring 2023.
This 2-hour workshop, guided by Sara Suárez, is part of a generative series that aims to produce a “reservoir” of dream content. Participants will explore new forms of vulnerability and intimacy that reframe collective dreaming as an open, plastic space that may reveal and cultivate radical modes of relationality, community care, and futurist speculation. The installation that will take shape from this shared archive of images, sensations, symbols, and stories will complement HEAT AID 2023.
With permission, materials generated in this workshop will be incorporated into the physical space, opening in spring 2023, and participants will be credited as project contributors.
Participation is free. This session will take place virtually (via Zoom), and a Zoom link will be circulated following your RSVP.
Gathering Tides is a series of workshops held in the winter of 2022-2023. These workshops will explore interconnectivities and relationalities vis a vis dream-sharing workshops, each uniquely sited across Los Angeles or online. An installation at the M_A Storefront will emerge from the collection of shared dreams. This orientation around dreaming situates the M_A Storefront in the past, present, and future, all the while reflecting on the necessity of resource-sharing, mutual aid, and material reuse as embodied by its coexistence in the space with HEAT AID.
Sara Suárez is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across experimental film, sound composition and social practice, interested in sensory and spatial perception, shared spaces and landscapes, collective memory, and co-creative processes.
Her works include visual and sonic landscape studies that incorporate audio collage, electronic composition, and analog film processes. She is currently developing a collection of work considering the physical and social experiences of darkness, sleep, and dreaming, and the forces that degrade these essential needs. Her work has been featured by LA Filmforum, Slamdance, Alchemy Film Festival, ICDOCS, Chicago Underground Film Festival and other venues.
Suárez is also the co-founder of virtual care lab, an interdisciplinary project platform and creative community interrogating issues of care, solidarity, co-creation, and trust in virtual space. She completed her MFA at CalArts and works in Los Angeles.
Regina Teng is an architectural designer and founding principal of GINAA. Her work focuses on the atmospheric intersections of environment, nature, and culture. A native Angeleno, she has worked and exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo, Sydney, Zurich, Shanghai and the UK. Regina’s current research examines the potential for optic caustics, the reflection, refraction, and projection of light through materials, to operate as part of a passive thermal strategy.
She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and has taught previously at USC, UCLA, and Princeton University.
Gathering Tides II
Join M_A for a workshop that ventures into the mutable, evolving landscape of sleep and dreaming. Through artist-led dream sharing, collective writing, and conversation, our night-time dreams become an abundant and generative resource that shapes a collaborative installation concept by artist Sara Suárez and designer Regina Teng for the M_A Storefront opening in Spring 2023.
This 2-hour workshop, guided by Sara Suárez, is part of a generative series that aims to produce a “reservoir” of dream content. Participants will explore new forms of vulnerability and intimacy that reframe collective dreaming as an open, plastic space that may reveal and cultivate radical modes of relationality, community care, and futurist speculation. The installation that will take shape from this shared archive of images, sensations, symbols, and stories will complement HEAT AID 2023.
With permission, materials generated in this workshop will be incorporated into the physical space, opening in spring 2023, and participants will be credited as project contributors.
Participation is free. This session will take place virtually (via Zoom), and a Zoom link will be circulated following your RSVP.
Gathering Tides is a series of workshops held in the winter of 2022-2023. These workshops will explore interconnectivities and relationalities vis a vis dream-sharing workshops, each uniquely sited across Los Angeles or online. An installation at the M&A Storefront will emerge from the collection of shared dreams. This orientation around dreaming situates the M_A Storefront in the past, present, and future, all the while reflecting on the necessity of resource-sharing, mutual aid, and material reuse as embodied by its coexistence in the space with HEAT AID.
Sara Suárez is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across experimental film, sound composition and social practice, interested in sensory and spatial perception, shared spaces and landscapes, collective memory, and co-creative processes.
Her works include visual and sonic landscape studies that incorporate audio collage, electronic composition, and analog film processes. She is currently developing a collection of work considering the physical and social experiences of darkness, sleep, and dreaming, and the forces that degrade these essential needs. Her work has been featured by LA Filmforum, Slamdance, Alchemy Film Festival, ICDOCS, Chicago Underground Film Festival and other venues.
Suárez is also the co-founder of virtual care lab, an interdisciplinary project platform and creative community interrogating issues of care, solidarity, co-creation, and trust in virtual space. She completed her MFA at CalArts and works in Los Angeles.
Regina Teng is an architectural designer and founding principal of GINAA. Her work focuses on the atmospheric intersections of environment, nature, and culture. A native Angeleno, she has worked and exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo, Sydney, Zurich, Shanghai and the UK. Regina’s current research examines the potential for optic caustics, the reflection, refraction, and projection of light through materials, to operate as part of a passive thermal strategy.
She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP, and has taught previously at USC, UCLA, and Princeton University.