Join the MAK Center for the Mackey Apartments Block Party, an afternoon with friends and collaborators! The Mackey Apartments Block Party invites the general public to learn more about MAK Center’s Mid-City location through studio visits, self-guided tours, exhibition viewing and playlist listening.

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) and the MAK Center presented internationally renowned cellist Charles Curtis at the Schindler House. Hailed by Artforum as “one of the great cellists … spellbinding and minimal,” Curtis performed the Los Angeles premiere of a new work by Tashi Wada, along with J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 2 in D minor and more.

Steve Roden, Lucky Dragons, and Simon Leung presented new performances as part of the exhibition Routine Pleasures, organized by Michael Ned Holte. Each performance was a response to the site and the context of the exhibition but also a continuation of each artist’s ongoing work. Steve Roden began with a sound performance utilizing a grouping of modular synthesizers from his collection. Lucky Dragons continued their exploration of plural delectation, presenting poems in two voices. Concluding the program, Simon Leung returned to the theme of the train (in a nod to Jean-Pierre Gorin’s film which gave the exhibition its title) with a live/video work that mirrors his ongoing dialogue with Warren Niesłuchowski, the subject of his feature video War After War (2011).

SASSAS presented internationally renowned cellist Charles Curtis performing the world premiere of a new work by Carolyn Chen, and the Los Angeles premiere of works by Alison Knowles and Christian Wolff, plus works by Morton Feldman and Tobias Hume

Instigated by the tourism theme of Plan your visit, Rodrigo Marti’s Macunaima: The year of the snake shifted attention from migration as a short-term experience of hospitality to the experience of immigration as cohabitation.

Reenactment and historic architectural sites have a long and tangled history, which was the starting point for Cake and Eat It’s contribution to Plan your visit. Tea parties, costume balls, and other such societal events presented in period dress can be found across the country intending to activate a specific historical (and spectacle) context for visitors to various architectural time capsules.