Filmmaker James Benning at MAK Center

A book launch for 

"(FC) Two Cabins by JB"

A publication on the recent work of filmmaker 

James Benning

Tuesday, February 21, 2012  6:30-8:30 PM

Conversation at 7 PM sharp

MAK Center

at the Schindler House

835 N. Kings Road

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Suggested donation of $7

Free for Friends of the MAK Center

Please join the MAK Center and A.R.T. Press on Tuesday, February 21 at the Schindler House to celebrate the launch of (FC) Two Cabins by JB, a project-based publication that documents and analyzes a recent body of work by critically acclaimed filmmaker James Benning, edited by Julie Ault.

Benning reconstructed Henry David Thoreau's and Ted Kaczynski's iconic cabins, and uses these structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation, practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude. The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from both Thoreau's and Kaczynski's writings.

A conversation with Julie Ault, James Benning, and Dick Hebdige will begin at 7 PM.

For more information about (FC) Two Cabins by JB please visit artresourcestransfer.org

About A.R.T. Press

A.R.T. Press is the publishing arm of Art Resources Transfer, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing access to the arts through publishing and the free distribution of books to public libraries and schools in underserved communities nationwide (D.U.C. Library Program).

The MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House is located at 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood. Public hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM-6 PM. Regular admission is $7/$17 with the guidebook, Schindler By MAK; students and seniors, $6/$16 with book; free for Friends of the MAK Center and on Fridays, 4-6 PM. Parking is available at the public structure at the northeast corner of Kings Road and Santa Monica Boulevard.

For further information, please visit MAKCenter.org or call (323) 651-1510

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A performance by Ann Trondson at MAK Center

Fundraiser for Rehearsal/Recording

A performance by Ann Trondson

© Ann Trondson

Friday, February 17, 2012   7-9 PM

MAK Center

at the Schindler House

835 N. Kings Road

West Hollywood, CA 90069

Admission

$25 General

$15 Students and Friends of the MAK Center

Tickets available at the door and at kickstarter.com

To gather support for artist Ann Trondson's sound performance Rehearsal/Recording at the Schindler House on September 15, 2012, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture will host a fundraising event on February 17.

The evening will feature arts writer Jan Tumlir presenting a lecture on the relationship between black and white monochrome painting and noise music, artist and magician Ross Moreno delighting and confounding with roving magic tricks, and the recorded music of first violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Rehearsal/Recording participant Mischa Lefkowitz, playing throughout the house.

About Rehearsal/Recording

When the Schindler House was built in 1922, in what was a yet to be-developed area of Los Angeles, it must have been an exotic encounter for passersby. Trondson's work is an inquiry into how this radically different building may have been experienced. What would it have been like to come upon such an extraordinary house-particularly at night? Unable to access, attempting to see inside through the narrow window slits, it must have bewildered one's senses.

Rehearsal/Recording is a sound performance. Renowned composer Claudio Vena will be commissioned to compose a music piece on site prior to September 15. On that night, musicians from the L.A. Philharmonic will gather together with Vena for the first time to rehearse and record the newly composed music inside the Schindler House. The audience will experience the performance like unsuspected wanderers stumbling upon the residence, unable to watch, but enticed to listen to what is happening inside.

To learn more about the project, how to contribute and what other exciting opportunities there are to help support Recording/Rehearsal, go to kickstarter.com

Rehearsal/Recording was created in conjunction with The Banff Arts Centre.

The MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House is located at 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood. Public hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM-6 PM. Regular admission is $7/$17 with the guidebook, Schindler By MAK; students and seniors, $6/$16 with book; free for Friends of the MAK Center and on Fridays, 4-6 PM. Parking is available at the public structure at the northeast corner of Kings Road and Santa Monica Boulevard.

For further information, please visit MAKCenter.org or call (323) 651-1510

Become a Friend of the MAK Center