This week is chock full of events at HABEAS LOUNGE and you are invited.
Tuesday September 29, 7:30 - 9 PM
Project Food LA Panel Discussion: Hungry Urbanism
Hungry Urbanism - Diagnosing the Los Angeles Food System
Project Food LA is a group of educators, chefs, artists, architects, planners, nutritionists, growers, and caring individuals. This is a diverse group with a shared concern: improving access to healthier food choices for our communities.
Wednesday Sept 30, 6 - 8 PM
HABEAS LOUNGE Perspective Group no. 2 - Downtown through the Lens of History with Jen Mapes
Share and map your histories and versions of historic downtown in a candid informal discussion at the HABEAS LOUNGE. The event is the second Perspective Group in the framework of "A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation", a series of explorations through maps and encounters, which will build a framework for the ideas and exchanges about our shared city.
Saturday October 3, 2 - 4 PM
Mapping Smell, with Katie Bachler
Second of a series of eight Saturday Mapping Workshops at HABEAS LOUNGE
For our second map making workshop, we will be exploring the idea of smell in downtown LA. We will walk around the city for an hour or so, taking notes and discussing what we smell, then return to the space to create maps based on our experience.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Layers, Lores, Locations of DTLA History Were Explored In The First Map Making Workshop and Walk With Map Wrangler Katie Bachler
During the first Map Making Workshop, we examined potential artifacts exhibiting elements of DTLA's history: a working public pay phone, former mayor Richard Riordan's Original Pantry Cafe (est. 1924 and doors never locked until the uprisings of 1994), LA Live and its unchanged, still-present Michael Jackson memorial signboard. Our next map making workshop- to take place on Saturday, October 3 from 2-4PM will focus on following the diverse smells of downtown, extracting their origins, and investigating the stories odors tell about the plurality of DTLA.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
HABEAS LOUNGE embarks on A Pluralistic DTLA Investigation
You are cordially invited to join us for the first in a series of HABEAS ENCOUNTER GROUPS. Week one will feature downtown writers/bloggers/tweeters, on Wednesday evening, September 23rd, 6 - 8 PM. Come out and meet people who want to hear about your downtown LA. What makes you inspired...or repulsed by downtown? Is downtown your muse? How do LA and its representations negotiate the spaces of the virtual and the real? We invite you to share your visions and versions of downtown in a candid informal discussion at the HABEAS LOUNGE. The event is the first of "A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation", a series of explorations through maps and encounters, which will build a framework for the ideas and exchanges about our shared city.
The HABEAS LOUNGE is a built environment created by LA artist Linda Pollack, specifically constructed to foster and animate civic dialogue. At its core, the LOUNGE is a communal seating arrangement, designed by architect Mark Gee. The original LOUNGE, built from steel, wood and upholstery, was created at the 18th Street Art Center of Santa Monica where it hosted an array of discussions and events addressing constitutional issues in anticipation of the 2008 presidential election. It has since traveled from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles, to mid town Manhattan, to the financial district of Manhattan, and most recently to Newark New Jersey. In each edition, Linda creates a site specific program addressing timely civic issues. Topics of past LOUNGE series include urban planning, constitutional issues, the economy, and city history. This summer an edition of the LOUNGE was commissioned by the city of Wroclaw Poland to host a program of constitutional discussions on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Eastern Europe's political changes of 1989.
For A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation, the HABEAS LOUNGE is literally constructed from the city of Los Angeles, creating a new level of site specificity. LA local businesses donated their cardboard to sustainable architect Nina Marie Barbuto, who built this version of the LOUNGE. The mapping investigation features a broad spectrum of geographical materials ranging from traditional and historic maps, to those inspired by the senses of smell, touch and emotion. The collection and workshops are orchestrated by map wrangler Katie Bachler. HABEAS LOUNGE headquarters has been specially designed LA architect Ilaria Mazzoleni.
HABEAS LOUNGE is open weekdays 12 - 4, when the public is invited to examine the evolving depository of maps, and to create and contribute their own as part of the growing collection.
HABEAS ENCOUNTER GROUPS - invites unique downtown perspective groups to instigate a discussion based on their visions of the city; Wednesdays 6 - 8 PM.
HABEAS MAPPING WORKSHOPS - Join us each Saturday for participatory mapping adventures and learn about wide ranging ways of mapping of your own downtown experience; Saturdays 2 - 4 PM.
HABEAS LOUNGE participates in the Downtown LA Artwalk; October 8 + November 12, 5 - 9 PM.
Feel free to pass this invitation on to friends and colleagues. For more info: Linda Pollack, HabeasIndex@gmail.com.
September 21 thru November 13 2009
7+ FIG Art Space
7&FIG at Ernst & Young Plaza 735 S. Figueroa Street Middle level Los Angeles, CA 90017Validated parking in 7+ FIG parking structure, entrance on 7th and 8th Streets, west of Figueroa.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
KATIE BACHLER
Katie Bachler is an educator, gardener and map maker living Los Angeles. She just returned from Amsterdam where she assisted on the Project The Cook the Farmer His Wife and their Neighbor with Marjetica Potrc. This project explored how relationships form around gardening and cooking. Katie is inspired by nature and history in her educational and artistic practices here in LA and has been a part of the dance collective bodycity for five years. She is also in the process of creating a food co op in highland park!
JENNIFER MAPES
Jennifer Mapes has lived in Los Angeles for the past four years, and got to know downtown by mapping and taking photos of its 750 historic buildings for the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. She also mapped and photographed sites of interest downtown for the Department of Geography's Downtown Walking Tour. In addition to creating her own maps, she collected 70 historic maps of Los Angeles for a research project on early growth in the region. Now teaching "Los Angeles and the American Dream," to freshmen at USC, she is interested in how perceptions of cities shape their environmental and social realities.
JAMES JONES
Jones continued his education at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where he received his Masters degree in Architecture in 2009.
As a student, his design work spatializing sound in a restrictive area was featured in Sonic Bloom, a project produced by Sci-Arc for the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
He founded 3 Point Design in 2007 to showcase his abilities in single family dwellings.
His thesis work is currently on display at Sci-Arc as apart of the “Selected Thesis Exhibition: A juried exhibition of exceptional thesis projects by SCI-Arc 2009 graduate students.”
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
history
HABEAS LOUNGE, evolved from “My Daily Constitution,” an ongoing, occasional project that used editioned copies of the U.S. Constitution to encourage discussion about constitutional democracy in various urban spaces in the U.S. The project was started in 2002, and has been held in Los Angeles (April ‘02), NYC (February ‘03), Cincinnati (June ‘03), Seattle (November ‘03), New York City (August ‘04), Los Angles (November ‘05), and Indianapolis (September ‘06).
The HABEAS LOUNGE was originally designed for the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California as an environment within which to experience and respond to works developed for the exhibition PATRIOT ACTS (January ‘08). The LOUNGE next traveled to downtown Los Angeles, where it served as the stage for a series of civic dialogues at Brookfield Properties Art Space at 7&FIG @ Ernst & Young Plaza, in the summer of 2008. In November 2008 HABEAS LOUNGE was installed at the CUNY Graduate Center Gallery in Midtown Manhattan. In January 2009 it moved to the concourse of 1 NY Plaza in Lower Manhattan, at the invitation of arts>Brookfield Properties. There it hosted a series about the economy, with a special focus on economic cycles and booms and busts.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
MARK GEE
Mark Gee moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to study and practice architecture. Prior to that he had a short career as an analytical chemist. He has been involved with a number of award-winning architectural projects and competitions as well as created online presences for a variety of commercial and institutional clients. His own practice, Mimetic Systems, takes its name and inspiration from artificial intelligence and also suggests that, while influenced by architectural thinking, his pursuits are not confined to strict definitions or conventions of architecture and its production. It is this attitude that has led Mimetic Systems to specialize in design and production services for other creative individuals; led to collaborations with clients that include conceptual and visual artists, musicians and graphic designers; and resulted in projects ranging from event flyers to internationally acclaimed art installations.
about
The HABEAS LOUNGE is a built environment created by Linda Pollack specifically constructed to foster and animate civic dialogue. Topics of past LOUNGE series include urban planning, constitutional issues, the economy, and city history. arts>Brookfield Properties has invited Linda Pollack back to transform the 7+FIG Art Space into an incubator for ideas about Downtown L.A. The 8-week public event, called Habeas Lounge: A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation, is both a map based-exhibition and a space for visitors to interpolate their own ideas and visions about our shared city.
For "A Pluralistic Downtown Los Angeles Investigation", the HABEAS LOUNGE is literally constructed from the city of Los Angeles, creating a new level of site specificity. LA local businesses donated their cardboard to sustainable architect Nina Marie Barbuto, who built this version of the LOUNGE. The mapping investigation features a broad spectrum of geographical materials ranging from traditional and historic maps, to those inspired by the senses of smell, touch and emotion. The collection and workshops are orchestrated by map wrangler Katie Bachler. HABEAS LOUNGE headquarters has been specially designed LA architect Ilaria Mazzoleni.
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