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Q.E.D. II: Not (Quite) Easily Done
May 15, 2013

Schindler House, 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069

Admission to this event is free

The third and final Q.E.D. II, with guests Jennifer Calkins , Anne de Marcken , and Amanda Ackerman . Moderated by Teresa Carmody

The event is co-curated by Jennifer Calkins;
she begins her curatorial statement with two quotes:
"Therefore the products of 12 by 2, and of 6 by 4, are equal." W. BEDWELL, 1614 De Numeris Geometricis, ii. 25
"But life is not like that. There are no QEDs." Church Times, 2006 17 Nov. 19/1

She continues:
Uncomfortable as it makes me, I have to agree with Church Times. I do not believe in Q.E.D. Nothing is demonstrated, nothing is quite easily done. The existence of two opposites at the same moment is just that. Or, it is only the mask of our perceptions, our cognition and our emotional reactivity, that hangs between us and the world like Los Angeles haze. I see in my work and the work of those I admire a constant return to the idea of that veil-glass darkly. Our intersections with the past, with the plants, with the nonhuman animals, are not about anything but our own speech. We are trying to reach outside of the echo chamber of our own minds towards something else, a sort of neat Q.E.D.-our own proof of the existence of ourselves and the other-that, even with the very tips of our fingers, the edge of our hair, we will never even brush.

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Q.E.D. II is a series of performances curated around issues of affinity, influence, and provocation. This program includes three events over the course of three months (March 13, April 8, and May 15); each evening features a Les Figues author alongside two additional writers and/or artists, whose work as impacted the author's. Q.E.D. II builds on the 2012 Q.E.D. series on queer art and literature, including the questions Q.E.D. raised about bodies, sexuality, and identity. This year, Les Figues Press invites authors to act as both participant and curators-emphasizing communities of influence over issues of queerness-underscoring that both are bonds of affinity.

The program is hosted by Les Figues Press and supported through a Cultural Resource Development Grant from the City of West Hollywood.

Q.E.D. references a novel by Gertrude Stein; Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum, or Things as They Are) was one of the earliest coming-out stories, written in 1903 though not published until 1950, after Stein's death.

Thom Mayne and Bernard Tschumi in conversation
May 10, 2013

Book Launch for Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture After Images
April 10, 2013

Q.E.D. II: Inchoate Affinities:
The Open-Wall Architecture of Language and Gender

April 08, 2013

Plan your visit
February 14, 2013 - April 07, 2013

Femme Methodologies: A Tea Party
April 03, 2013

DIALOGUES
ART/ARCHITECTURE
PARIS/LOS ANGELES
Panel Discussion #3

March 27, 2013

Tour of Olive Hill
March 24, 2013

Femme Methodologies: A Tea Party
March 14, 2013

Group XXXV
March 08, 2013

Double Crossings
Hans Schabus and The Center for Land Use Interpretation

February 14, 2013 - March 02, 2013

Architecture and Cinema: New and Rare Films - Part 3
November 08, 2012

Light My Way, Stranger
The MAK Center's first Day of the Dead Auction

June 01, 2012 - November 02, 2012

Architecture and Cinema: New and Rare Films - Part 2
October 25, 2012

Architecture and Cinema: New and Rare Films - Part 1
October 18, 2012

ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: Common Ground
October 04, 2012

Bend a Bow
June 08, 2012 - September 22, 2012

Rehearsal/Recording
A performance by Ann Trondson

September 15, 2012

Material and Culture
September 06, 2012 - September 09, 2012

sound. at the Schindler House: Tape Music
August 25, 2012

Out Spoken: Lectures from the SCI-Arc Media Archive
May 15, 2012 - August 12, 2012

Q.E.D.| Part 3. Authentic Object
June 13, 2012

Q.E.D. | Part 2. What Matters
May 09, 2012

Duchamp the Messenger
February 25, 2012 - April 30, 2012

Flowers for Pauline
April 14, 2012 - April 20, 2012

Q.E.D. | Part 1. Things Unsaid
April 11, 2012

Final Projects: Group XXXIII
March 09, 2012 - March 11, 2012

(FC) Two Cabins by JB: A publication on the recent work of filmmaker James Benning
February 21, 2012

Fundraiser for Rehearsal / Recording
February 17, 2012

Analog: Among Nations (Mostly) by Renée Petropoulos
February 10, 2012

Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
September 28, 2011 - January 29, 2012

A Composite Field
January 20, 2012

Become a Friend of the MAK Center
December 29, 2011

MAK Day 2011 - Pacific Standard Time Hollywood/Wilshire Focus Weekend
November 12, 2011

Esther McCoy Film Screening
October 22, 2011

MAK Center Fall Fundraiser 2011
October 16, 2011

Final Projects: Group XXXII
September 08, 2011 - September 11, 2011

Both Sides and the Center
August 19, 2011 - August 20, 2011

Light Pavilion
June 17, 2011 - August 06, 2011

91 92 93
May 11, 2011 - July 31, 2011

John Lautner 100th Birthday Tour
July 23, 2011

sound. at the Schindler House: The Stephanie Taylor Songbook
July 23, 2011

Reading in the Garden with Pierre Guyotat
May 06, 2011

Schindler Lab, Round One
March 05, 2011 - April 24, 2011

Final Projects: Group XXXI
March 10, 2011 - March 13, 2011

More Lust / Less Suffering
February 17, 2011

91 92 93: Part One
January 05, 2011 - February 11, 2011

Fireside Reading with Jeremy Sigler and Chris Kraus
December 13, 2010

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
November 18, 2010

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
November 11, 2010

MAK Day 2010
October 30, 2010

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
October 28, 2010

Brandon Lattu: Reciprocity of Light
September 16, 2010 - October 16, 2010

MAK Architecture Tour 2010
October 10, 2010

Fractional Systems.Garage Project II
June 25, 2010 - September 29, 2010

Final Projects: Group XXX
September 10, 2010 - September 12, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead
February 08, 2010 - June 30, 2010

Manifestos For the Urban Future
June 27, 2010

Mackey Apartments Garage Renovation Opening
June 24, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Book Release
June 17, 2010

Im pure i tea : a tea gathering
June 06, 2010 - June 09, 2010

Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) - José León Cerrillo
January 30, 2010 - May 12, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Panel at SCI-Arc
April 15, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Film and Video Screenings
April 08, 2010

Lecture by Renée Green
April 06, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Panel at ALOUD
March 24, 2010

Final Projects: Group XXIX
March 12, 2010 - March 16, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Bike Tour
March 07, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Bus Tours
February 27, 2010 - March 06, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Panel Discussions
February 28, 2010

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - Artists Reception
February 27, 2010

Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism
November 03, 2009 - January 31, 2010

First Fridays
December 30, 2009

Reservations now available online!

On the first Friday of every month, the public may visit the:
Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R.M. Schindler, 1936)
Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939)
Schindler House (R.M. Schindler, 1922)

Admission to view all three is $50 and includes the Schindler by MAK guidebook.
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First Friday Reservation
Start time at the Schindler House

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
November 19, 2009

Kaucyila Brooke, Vitrinen in Arbeit
November 11, 2009

MAK Day 2009
November 07, 2009

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
October 29, 2009

The Society for the Moving Image in the Built Environment (SMIBE)
October 22, 2009

Architecture Tour: Focus Silverlake/Los Feliz Mid-Century Modernism
October 04, 2009

sound. at the Schindler House 2009
September 12, 2009

A Walk in the City
September 09, 2009

Final Projects: Group XXVIII
September 04, 2009 - September 06, 2009

The Isle
May 27, 2009 - August 23, 2009

sound. at the Schindler House 2009
July 25, 2009

Urban China: Jiang Jun and Benjamin Godsill at the Hammer Museum
July 01, 2009

"Satellite Geography: as long as it is aiming at the sky"
June 30, 2009

Trends of Mobility in Beijing
June 25, 2009

Urban Projects Lecture: On the Shadows of Cities
June 24, 2009

Book Release Party: The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive
June 20, 2009

Creative Decadence and Pornosophic Reflections talk by Professor Herbert Lachmeyer
June 03, 2009

Friendship Event
May 31, 2009

The haudenschildGarage Presents: The Last Book: This Ain't Your Grandson's Kindle
April 26, 2009

Los Angeles + Lima Probing the Urban Desert
April 07, 2009

Transit And The City: Presentation and Panel Discussion
April 02, 2009

Final Projects: Group XXVII
March 13, 2009 - March 15, 2009

Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Dorit Margreiter
January 15, 2009 - March 08, 2009

Panel Discussion at the Schindler House: "Reframing Critical Practices of New York Artists in the Early Nineties"
February 28, 2009

Catalogue Presentation and Screening with Dorit Margreiter, Rebecca Baron, and Juli Carson at Mandrake Bar
January 27, 2009

Heterotopias: Lessons from Los Angeles for Shanghai’s Suburbs
January 21, 2009

Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Ismail Farouk-"Cancelled Without Prejudice"
November 05, 2008 - January 04, 2009

MAK Day 2008
November 08, 2008

Loose Talk: Out There Doing It 2008
October 30, 2008

Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Katie Grinnan-"Polaris"
September 04, 2008 - October 26, 2008

"The Garden" Film Screening
October 16, 2008

Architecture Tour: Focus on John Lautner
July 27, 2008 - October 12, 2008

Special Tour by Judith Sheine
October 04, 2008

sound. 2008 at the Schindler House
September 20, 2008

Final Projects: Group XXVI - ReadyFasterBurnsLonger
August 20, 2008 - August 24, 2008

PanAmerican Urbanism
August 13, 2008

Free Community Day at the Mackey Apartments
July 19, 2008

Hinterland
June 20, 2008

Towards Sustainability: Changing the Urban Habitat and Habitus
June 04, 2008

MAK Center Announces Stewardship Of Third Schindler Residence
June 04, 2008

Conversation with Heinz Emigholz, Thom Andersen and Judith Sheine
April 11, 2008

Hana Reichman Gallery
March 09, 2008 - March 16, 2008

Final Projects: Group XXV - Ah CA va bien
March 06, 2008 - March 09, 2008

Victor Burgin: The Little House
November 10, 2007 - February 24, 2008

MAK Day 2007
November 10, 2007

Out There Doing It
September 13, 2007 - October 25, 2007

MAK Architecture Tour 2007
October 06, 2007 - October 07, 2007

Final Projects: Group XXIV - The Mystery of Life
September 06, 2007 - September 09, 2007

Arnulf Rainer. Hyper-Graphics
May 17, 2007 - August 26, 2007

sound. 2007 at the Schindler House
August 25, 2007

Arnulf Rainer Finnissage
August 23, 2007

Something To Do With A Castle, Skeletons in the Cupboard, A Kingdom For A Horse, Lachkonserve / On Love, Pinky and the Brain
September 06, 2007 - August 11, 2007

The Hylomorphic Project
January 01, 2007 - August 01, 2007

Poetry Reading
April 15, 2007

Final Projects: Group XXIII - Exquisite Corpse
March 08, 2007 - March 11, 2007

The Gen[H]ome Project
October 29, 2006 - February 25, 2007

Synthetic Ecologies
February 10, 2007

Abstract Cinemas with Henry Flynt
January 13, 2007

Repeat
March 17, 2006 - January 01, 2007

MAK Architecture Tour 2006
October 01, 2006

Final Projects: Group XXII - CENTER
September 06, 2006 - September 10, 2006

sound. 2006 at the Schindler House
June 24, 2006 - August 25, 2006

Vertical Garden
June 09, 2006 - July 10, 2006

Symmetry
January 26, 2006 - May 21, 2006

Mackey Apartments Re-Opening
May 11, 2006

Europe Day - Sounds of Europe
May 09, 2006

Final Projects: Group XXI - Love After the Cold War in an Open House of a (Re) Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic
March 10, 2006 - March 12, 2006

Out There Doing It, The Return
October 05, 2005 - November 02, 2005

Isaac Julien/True North
July 15, 2005 - October 23, 2005

MAK Architecture Tour 2005
October 02, 2005

Starving for Embarassing Architecture
September 29, 2005

Final Projects: Group XX - 'glass, concrete and stone, it's just a house not a home'
September 23, 2005 - September 25, 2005

MAK Day: What Makes a Building Stay Alive?
September 10, 2005

sound. 2005 at the Schindler House
August 26, 2005 - August 27, 2005

Schindler by MAK
June 30, 2005

Günther Domenig: Structures that Fit My Nature
March 31, 2005 - June 26, 2005

Final Projects: Group XIX - Friday the 13th
May 13, 2005

Amir Zaki: Summer Through Winter
January 07, 2005 - February 20, 2005

Jesse Weber: Hitch
January 07, 2005 - February 20, 2005

Kings Road: A play by Jericho Stone
December 10, 2004

SHOWDOWN! at the Schindler House
September 20, 2004 - December 05, 2004

MAK Day 2004: Fashion Statement
October 10, 2004

Discussions in a Garden
September 22, 2004 - October 07, 2004

10Y MAK Center: Austria / Architecture/ Night Open Air
September 29, 2004

Final Projects: Group XVIII - Mandatory
September 07, 2004 - September 09, 2004

Yves Klein: Air Architecture
May 13, 2004 - August 29, 2004

sound. 2004 at the Schindler House
June 26, 2004

3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs
February 06, 2004 - March 17, 2004

Final Projects: Group XVII - It's Time to Stay Home and Get Some Audience
March 12, 2004 - March 14, 2004

Schindler’s Paradise: Architectural Resistance
August 06, 2003 - December 07, 2003

Architectural Resistance: Contemporary Architects Face Schindler Today
November 23, 2003

MAK Architectural Tour - The Lovell Houses
November 01, 2003

Sundown Salon Schindler House
October 23, 2003

MAK Day: Seen and Heard in LA
October 04, 2003

Final Projects: Group XVI - Absolute L.A. International
September 01, 2003 - September 30, 2003

sound. 2003 at the Schindler House
June 28, 2003 - September 20, 2003

TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists
January 29, 2003 - July 27, 2003

Lecture Eva Schlegl
July 23, 2003

Final Projects: Group XV
March 21, 2003 - March 23, 2003

Plugged and Haunted: Garage Projects at the Mackey Apartments
February 16, 2003 - February 23, 2003

Lecture by Christian Witt-Dörring, MAK Vienna Curator
January 07, 2003

Home Scenes: 8 Days of Revision
December 15, 2002 - December 22, 2002

MAK Tour 2002
October 20, 2002

The Man We Want to Hang: A Three-Day Retrospective of the films of Kenneth Anger
October 10, 2002 - October 12, 2002

Final Projects: Group XIV
September 01, 2002 - September 30, 2002

sound. 2002: Third Annual Summer Concert Series
June 01, 2002 - September 30, 2002

MAK DAY: Envisioning Architecture
September 08, 2002

Gerald Zugmann: Blue Universe, Architectural Manifestos by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
May 09, 2002 - September 08, 2002

Room
August 22, 2002

Animation Screening
April 17, 2002

MARKINGS
January 30, 2002 - April 14, 2002

Final Projects: Group XIII
February 01, 2002 - February 28, 2002

Jeremy Deller: I Love Melancholy at Low Gallery, Opening Reception
January 11, 2002

2 Tonic Plates
December 18, 2001

20/35 Vision
September 21, 2001 - October 28, 2001

sound. 2001 at the Schindler House
June 01, 2001 - September 30, 2001

MAK DAY: Site and Sound
September 08, 2001

In Between: Art and Architecture - Part 2
March 09, 2001 - September 02, 2001

In Between: Art and Architecture - Part 3
July 20, 2001 - September 02, 2001

MAK Architecture Tour and an “Evening on the Roof”
August 19, 2001

Wild Walls: Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism
August 08, 2001

Sam Durant: South of Here
August 04, 2001

Maureen Selwood: All the Places I Have Ever Lived
July 21, 2001

The World Out of Tune Festival (W.O.O.T.)
May 20, 2001

The Kings Road Furniture
March 28, 2001 - April 20, 2001

RAIN
March 17, 2001 - March 18, 2001

Frederick J. Kiesler: Endless Space
December 06, 2000 - February 25, 2001

In Between: Art and Architecture – Part 1
February 16, 2001 - February 18, 2001

heaven’s gift — Contemporary Art Tower, A New Programmatic Strategy for the Presentation of Contemporary Art
October 28, 2000 - December 17, 2000

A New City: The Architecture of Eric Owen Moss and the Urban Strategies of Samitaur Constructs for Culver City
October 29, 2000

Final Projects: Group X - Oxygen: Flipping through Frederick Kiesler
September 26, 2000 - October 15, 2000

Trans-Culture
October 07, 2000

sound. 2000 at the Schindler House
June 01, 2000 - September 30, 2000

American Pictures 1961 - 1967: Photographs by Dennis Hopper
June 02, 2000 - September 17, 2000

Upstate
March 01, 2000 - May 28, 2000

Final Projects: Group IX - If I was in L.A,
April 14, 2000 - April 16, 2000

MAK Architecture Tour 2000
April 02, 2000

Six-Day-Play
February 24, 2000

Location Proposal #2
January 26, 2000 - February 20, 2000

Recent Works
February 19, 2000

Numbers
October 13, 1999 - January 16, 2000

LIFE/BOAT
July 22, 1999 - September 26, 1999

Final Projects: Group VIII - Some Things to Be Seen or Taking Place not Necessarily Related to Each Other
September 22, 1999

1st Annual MAK Day
September 18, 1999

Film/Art/Architecture Event
August 27, 1999

Backroom
July 11, 1999 - August 22, 1999

Micro Space/Global Time: An Architectural Manifesto
June 02, 1999 - July 11, 1999

Architecture and Revolution: Escuelas Nacionales de Arte en La Habana
March 10, 1999 - May 30, 1999

Work in Progress
May 13, 1999

Final Projects: Group VII
March 19, 1999 - March 21, 1999

Twelve Projects by R.M. Schindler
February 03, 1999 - February 28, 1999

The best animals are the flat animals—the best space is the deep space
October 28, 1998 - January 17, 1999

1998 R.M. Schindler Residence Tour
November 06, 1998 - November 07, 1998

Touch Down in the Land of Superheroes, Illustrated Version
October 09, 1998

Final Projects: Group VI
September 19, 1998 - September 26, 1998

Martin Kippenberger, The Last Stop West
July 09, 1998

Final Projects: Group V - Befejezett Munka
March 13, 1998 - March 29, 1998

Anarchitecture: Works by Gordon Matta-Clark
November 17, 1997 - January 18, 1998

Roland Rainer: Reflections on my Architecture
December 03, 1997

Final Projects: Group IV - Ich bin ein L.A.
September 13, 1997 - September 28, 1997

World Cup of Art — Missing the Goal?
September 10, 1997

Silent & Violent: Selected Artists’ Editions
March 19, 1997 - August 31, 1997

L.A.NDING
July 18, 1997

Schindler House Birthday
June 06, 1997

L.A. Projects: Work-in-Progress
May 14, 1997

Final Projects: Group III - Open House/Open Studio
March 20, 1997 - March 22, 1997

room of displacement/loneliness
February 01, 1997 - March 22, 1997

Public Spaces/Private Exposure
February 06, 1997

Final Projects: Group II
September 17, 1996 - September 30, 1996

Art in the Center
September 18, 1996

The Havana Project, Architecture Again
April 13, 1996 - August 27, 1996

The Garage Project
April 13, 1996 - August 14, 1996

Schindler House Tour
April 13, 1996

FIVE-X
January 01, 1996 - March 31, 1996

Final Projects: Group I - Art Protects You
March 20, 1996

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