Graft
SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 6:30am
Figueroa Corridor, Downtown L.A.
(Information available at 3001 S. Flower St., Los Angeles)
Hothouse greenery and an equally valuable amount of dollar bills will be attached to bare trees along the Figueroa Corridor, which connects the heart of the “downtown renaissance” with un-gentrified areas of the city. This new version of Graft (1970) is coordinated by University of Southern California MFA students Joel Kyack and Lee Lynch.
INFO 213/743-1804 or amandelb@usc.edu
Graft (1970)
First arranged at Kent State University in Ohio, Graft involves the hanging of hothouse greenery and dollar bills (of the same value as the greenery) on the bare branches of trees on a winter day.
Giveaway
Loyola Marymount University
Burns Fine Art Center, Room 211
1 LMU Dr., Los Angeles
In this restaging of Giveaway (1969), groups of LMU students will be equipped with stacks of dishes and Polaroid cameras to document the dishes as they are left at various locations. At the conclusion of the Happening, there will be a final group discussion in which students will present and report on their experiences and documentation.
INFO 310/338-5865 or dmeyer9@lmu.edu
Participants in Giveaway place stacks of dishes on street corners, photograph them, and return the next day to photograph them again, creating anonymous exchanges around the city.
Photoplay
The Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station G1
2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica
In this reinvention of Photoplay (1982), participants will line up outside the gallery and enter in pairs. They will take Polaroid photographs of each other, share them for about two minutes, exit, and leave the pictures. The public is invited to participate on a first come, first served basis.
INFO 310/586-6488 or anna.nickila@smmoa.org
Two people meet for the first time and take pictures of each other in turn. The pictures are printed and provided with commentary by both participants, facilitating an exchange of misunderstandings and misinterpretations. This process continues until satisfaction about the resulting photographs is achieved.
Don’t
12pm: University of Southern California (USC)
(Intersection of Bloom Walk and Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles)
2pm: MacArthur Park, 2230 West 6th St., Los Angeles
Originally situated at two locations in Los Angeles, Don’t (1970) explored questions of access and exclusion by transferring symbolic authority to neighborhood youths who staged demonstrations, ironically, on segments of artificial grass. This reactivation counter-poses the private/public space of the university to the contested ‘public’ environment of an urban park. This event is organized by graduate students in the University of Southern California’s Public Art Studies Program (PAS), Roski School of Fine Arts, with graduate students in USC’s Art History Program, in collaboration with the Tijuana/Los Angeles-based collective Bulbo, and advisor Joshua Decter, director of the PAS Program.
INFO 213/743-8540 or lovins@usc.edu
For Don’t, originally realized in coordination with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, participants surrounded a patch of fake grass with barricades and signs that read “Do not enter,” “Do Not Step On Grass,” etc. Passers-by were asked for their reaction to this scene. Later, the barricades were removed and new signs invited people to walk on the grass. Again, passersby were asked to give comments.
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