Hammer Projects: Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio
07 Mar - 10 May 2015
© Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio
The Catch, 2015
Artist rendering for site-specific installation. Image courtesy of the artist.
The Catch, 2015
Artist rendering for site-specific installation. Image courtesy of the artist.
HAMMER PROJECTS: LAUREN BON AND METABOLIC STUDIO
7 March - 10 May 2015
Hammer Projects: Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio will feature an immersive sonic work, The Catch, 2015. For this project, Bon and the Metabolic Studio’s Sonics and Optics Divisions will imbue the gallery with deep aural impressions, triggering both a physical sensation in viewers and a visual response as shadow waves sweep across the gallery floor, a cascading reflection of the water lens suspended above visitors’ heads. This exhibition uses sound imprints based on Bon’s water wheel, LA Noria, part of a massive project called Bending the River Back Into the City, 2012-present, that is expected to break ground in 2015 adjacent to the LA river, Downtown, and coincides with the Hammer’s year of water programming.
Hammer Projects: Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio is organized by Allison Agsten, curator, Public Engagement with January Parkos Arnall, curatorial assistant, Public Engagement.
Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio take art practice outside of the boundaries of the (art) system and to open it up to multiple possibilities bringing creativity into all areas of life. “Artists Need To Create On The Same Scale That Society Has The Capacity To Destroy.”
The Metabolic Studio practices on physical and social brownfields—places that are incapable of supporting life. Since 2005, the Metabolic Studio has focused on land and water use in the city of Los Angeles and by extension in the Intermountain West. Through working with local, state and federal agencies we often encounter systemic aversion to innovation.
At the heart of the Metabolic Studio’s practice are “devices of wonder.” These devices have the capacity to shift stagnation inherent in any given system and thereby have a transformative effect by creating momentum. All the actions happened in the public realm and were not supported by outside agencies. They were constructed as ephemeral interventions in social space. The exception to that is Bending the River Back into the City, which will be the only permanent work in the "Metabolic Cycle."
7 March - 10 May 2015
Hammer Projects: Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio will feature an immersive sonic work, The Catch, 2015. For this project, Bon and the Metabolic Studio’s Sonics and Optics Divisions will imbue the gallery with deep aural impressions, triggering both a physical sensation in viewers and a visual response as shadow waves sweep across the gallery floor, a cascading reflection of the water lens suspended above visitors’ heads. This exhibition uses sound imprints based on Bon’s water wheel, LA Noria, part of a massive project called Bending the River Back Into the City, 2012-present, that is expected to break ground in 2015 adjacent to the LA river, Downtown, and coincides with the Hammer’s year of water programming.
Hammer Projects: Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio is organized by Allison Agsten, curator, Public Engagement with January Parkos Arnall, curatorial assistant, Public Engagement.
Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio take art practice outside of the boundaries of the (art) system and to open it up to multiple possibilities bringing creativity into all areas of life. “Artists Need To Create On The Same Scale That Society Has The Capacity To Destroy.”
The Metabolic Studio practices on physical and social brownfields—places that are incapable of supporting life. Since 2005, the Metabolic Studio has focused on land and water use in the city of Los Angeles and by extension in the Intermountain West. Through working with local, state and federal agencies we often encounter systemic aversion to innovation.
At the heart of the Metabolic Studio’s practice are “devices of wonder.” These devices have the capacity to shift stagnation inherent in any given system and thereby have a transformative effect by creating momentum. All the actions happened in the public realm and were not supported by outside agencies. They were constructed as ephemeral interventions in social space. The exception to that is Bending the River Back into the City, which will be the only permanent work in the "Metabolic Cycle."