The 30th Anniversary Block Party celebrates three decades of the MAK Artists- and Architects-in-Residence program at the Mackey Apartments, which has served as a haven for international artists and architects to research, produce, and become immersed in the culture of Los Angeles.

The MAK Artists- and Architects-in-Residence Program was inaugurated in October 1995 with the arrival of its first cohort of artists and architects. Initiated earlier that year, an international jury has since convened annually in Vienna to select up to eight residency projects as well as two alternates per group. To date, the MAK Center has hosted more than fifty groups of international residents. This unique program is funded by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, in cooperation with the MAK — Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

The Block Party will mark the launch of the MAK Center’s new Alumni Archive Module, bring together Los Angeles-based Residency Alumni, and features the opening of the 26th iteration of Garage Exchange, showcasing Vienna-based artist and Mackey Residency alumnus Christoph Meier alongside Los Angeles-based artist Chadwick Rantanen. Guests are also invited to tour the Mackey Apartments and connect with friends, alumni, and MAK Center supporters over food, drinks, and conversation. Together, these elements create a multifaceted celebration of the MAK Artists- and Architects-in-Residence Program’s thirty-year legacy of creative exchange.

3:00 PM Residency Alumni Panel with Simona Ferrari, Julia Koerner, Christoph Meier, and Luis Ortega Govela, moderated by Anthony Carfello

4:00 PM Walkthrough of Garage Exchange with Christoph Meier and Chadwick Rantanen

Reception and Block Party to Follow

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Panelists

ANTHONY CARFELLO

Anthony Carfello is a curator, editor, and educator.

He is the Museum Manager/Curator of the Venice Heritage Museum, an initiative to preserve the stories of L.A.'s changing beachside community. From 2020 to 2022, Carfello served as Deputy Director of the Wende Museum in Culver City. For the decade prior (2009–19), he was Deputy Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House. Since 2017 he has taught as an adjunct assistant professor for Temple University’s L.A. study program, and from 2022 to 2024 he taught the art history of L.A. for Elon University (NC). Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Iowa.

He has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for the online journal Georgia (with Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian) and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

SIMONA FERRARI

Simona Ferrari is an architect working across different scales and formats. Practicing both independently and collaboratively, her work addresses architecture and the built environment through building, photography, drawing, and writing. Simona studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Technical University of Vienna, and received her Master’s degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside her practice, between 2017-2023, Simona taught and conducted research at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich and was assistant curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Previously, she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, completing several international projects, including the Search Library in Muharraq, Bahrain, exhibition designs and installations at the Cultural Center of Chicago, Harvard GSD, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Triennale di Milano. Recent works include “Landscape In-Between,” a project for the former industrial site of Acetati in Verbania, Italy, awarded in the 15th edition of the Europan architectural competition and subsequently developed as an urban plan commissioned by the municipality, involving the local community. Simona was an architect-in-residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and at the Charles Moore Foundation in Santa Monica.

JULIA KOERNER

Julia Koerner is an award-winning Austrian designer working at the convergence of architecture, product and fashion design, specialized in 3D-printing. She is the founder of JK Design GmbH /JK3D and a professor at UCLA. Her recent collaborations include 3D-Printed Haute Couture and costumes for Marvel’s Hollywood blockbuster ‘Black Panther’ earning two Academy Awards. Furthermore, she has developed research on innovative uses of 3D printing with Swarovski, Stratasys, and Materialise. She is internationally recognized for design innovation in 3D printing and recently was awarded for her architectural design for ICON's 3d-printed affordable housing Initiative 99. JK3D is a next generation brand that focuses on 3D-printed fashion and décor products. The brand features iconic nature-inspired designs, with intricate and complex designs that can only be made through innovative 3D printing technology, utilizing sustainable plant-based materials. JK3D is a woman-owned business with design ateliers and urban manufacturing facilities in Vienna and Los Angeles. Since 2024 she serves on the Creative Industries Council of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy of Austria as part of the "Innovation Program for the Creative Industries 2030.

CHRISTOPH MEIER

Christoph Meier (b. 1980, Vienna) studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Glasgow School of Art. His internationally exhibited, installation-based work often engages with architectural and social spaces. Meier has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Portland Institute of Art, Etablissement d’en face Brussels, and the Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul. He has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Casino Luxembourg, Kiosk Gent, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Graz, and the Vienna Secession. Since 2009, Meier has co-published the artist fanzine BLACK PAGES with Ute Müller and Nick Oberthaler and, in 2016, co-founded the independent exhibition space Guimarães in Vienna. From 2019 to 2020, he was professor at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology, where he now works as a senior artist at the Research Unit for Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making. Recently Meier has realized Gills Bells, a large-scale carillon as a public artwork in Gilsdorf, Luxembourg.

LUIS ORTEGA GOVELA

Luis Ortega Govela (1988) is a Mexican architect, writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture London. He is the founder of Office LOG, a research-based design studio working across architecture, design and art. . He is theco-founder of ÅYR, an art collective which explores the complex evolution of the home and domesticity. The collective has exhibited internationally, including at theBritish Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale and at the 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art.

He is the author of GARAGE a book on the architecture and image of the garage published by MIT Press which has now been translated into Russian by Strelka. The book was also adapted into a documentary and was part of the CPH:DOX festival official selection. He was a recipient of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Residency in 2017. He has lectured at the Architectural Association London, TU Delft, Garage Museum Moscow and The Royal College of Art. He is currently working on his third book. 

Garage Exchange Artists

CHRISTOPH MEIER

Christoph Meier (b. 1980, Vienna) studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Glasgow School of Art. His internationally exhibited, installation-based work often engages with architectural and social spaces. Meier has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Portland Institute of Art, Etablissement d’en face Brussels, and the Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul. He has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Casino Luxembourg, Kiosk Gent, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Graz, and the Vienna Secession. Since 2009, Meier has co-published the artist fanzine BLACK PAGES with Ute Müller and Nick Oberthaler and, in 2016, co-founded the independent exhibition space Guimarães in Vienna. From 2019 to 2020, he was professor at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology, where he now works as a senior artist at the Research Unit for Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making. Recently Meier has realized Gills Bells, a large-scale carillon as a public artwork in Gilsdorf, Luxembourg.

CHADWICK RANTANEN

Chadwick Rantanen (b. 1981, Wausau, WI) appropriates the forms of familiar consumer goods and modifies and re-contextualizes them into sculptural tools. Adapting and conforming to architecture and infrastructure, Rantanen’s sculptures mimic installations or site-specific works, often taking the form of an adaptor, wedging between objects and their sources of power, articulating a web of accommodation, compromise, maintenance and parasitism by slightly detouring energy, but never causing harm. His solo exhibitions include Secession, Vienna, Austria; Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, Italy; Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway; Essex Street, New York, New York; Overduin and Co., Los Angeles, California; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, California; CAPITAL, San Francisco, California. 

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present Agnes Denes: The Future is Fragile, an exhibition bringing together key works by Agnes Denes that challenge our relationship to land, resources, and ecological stewardship. Known for her pioneering conceptual and environmental art, Denes has long questioned the impact of industrialization and privatization on the natural world, urging us to reimagine land as a shared resource.

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Related Exhibition

Join us for the opening reception of Final Projects: Group LVII - Chambers, exhibiting three bodies of work produced by our Artists and Architects-in-Residence: Ella Eßlinger, Paulina Nolte, and Valentina Triet. Final Projects: Group LVII - Chambers marks the culmination of the 57th iteration of the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here.

Related Exhibition

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation are pleased to present A Permeable Atlas: A Conversation With Pablo Castillo Luna, a conversation with Researcher-in-Residence Pablo Castillo Luna, marking the culmination of his residency at the MAK Center’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House and presenting his  ongoing research project, A Permeable Atlas.

Over the course of his residency, Castillo Luna has developed a collection of drawings that explore the circulation of water through territories, buildings, and bodies. This atlas reimagines leakiness not as a failure but as an invitation to challenge our understanding of water as a resource to be hidden and controlled. A Permeable Atlas: A Conversation With Pablo Castillo Luna presents Castillo Luna’s research, framing permeability and water’s agency in architecture as central concerns in our current climatic instability, and examines how material, political, and environmental infrastructures intersect. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with Anna Neimark and John May exploring water, governance, and architecture.

PABLO CASTILLO LUNA

Pablo Castillo Luna is a Canary Islands-born architect and educator who teaches at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He holds an MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with distinction and received the Architecture Faculty Design Award. He received a diploma in architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His work has been exhibited at the Harvard Arts FIRST Festival (Cambridge, 2023) and the Center for Architecture (New York, 2022) and published in Pidgin, Paprika!, and L’Atelier. Prior to Cornell University, he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Wentworth Institute of Technology. As cofounder of à la sauvette, an architecture practice dedicated to design, research, and cultural production, Castillo Luna has led award-winning projects honored by the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2023) and the Future Architecture Platform (2020). à la sauvette’s work has been showcased at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2022), Driving the Human Festival in Berlin (2019), and The Movement Forum in London, Paris, and Lisbon (2019).

JOHN MAY

John May is co-founding principal with Zeina Koreitem of MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles based architecture and design studio. He is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Architecture Thesis Director at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Situated at the intersection of philosophy, technology, and the politics of environmentalism, May’s writings aim at a continual articulation of the conditions surrounding the contemporary design fields. His book, Signal. Image. Architecture (Columbia, 2019) contemplates the psychosocial effects of transmissible electronic images, and their consequences for architecture and urbanism. Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice  (Minnesota, 2019; co-edited with Zeynep Çelik Alexander) explores the philosophical, historical, and political dimensions of contemporary design technologies. May’s essays and interviews have appeared in Log, Perspecta, Praxis, MIT Thresholds, Project, Quaderns, New Geographies, and Actar’s Verb: Crisis, among many others. Koreitem and May were named by Wallpaper* as one of the “USA 400: The People Shaping America’s Creative Landscape in 2024".

ANNA NEIMARK

Anna Neimark co-founded First Office Architecture with collaborator Andrew Atwood to promote an exchange of ideas between the academy and the profession. Her research in techniques of representation, formal principles, and precedent analysis has been published widely, in journals such as AD, Log, Khorein, and Future Anterior, as well as the Treatise book Nine Essays (Chicago: Graham Foundation, 2015), co-authored with Atwood. First Office has engaged in projects with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Chicago Biennial, Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles, and the Venice Biennale, and was awarded numerous honors for its creative endeavors, including the Young Architects New York League Prize, the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Young Architects award, and the nomination as a Finalist in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. The collaborative recently completed several residential projects and developed a series of Accessory Dwelling Units for the City of LA’s ADU Pilot Program using prefabricated Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Neimark worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and New York, and at Johnstone Marklee in Los Angeles. She is a Design Faculty and the Visual Studies Coordinator at SCI-Arc.

ABOUT THE RESEARCHER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Presented by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation, the Researcher-in-Residence is a fully funded summer residency program based in R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles, also home to the MAK Center’s Study Center.

The Researcher-in-Residence program is open to professionals around the world researching or practicing in a discipline that relates to the built environment. Disciplines may include, but are not limited to architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, architectural history, sociology, writing, and/or visual art. Residency recipients are encouraged to participate in the activities of the MAK Center and engage with the larger art, architecture, and design communities of Los Angeles. Each residency culminates with a public talk or program related to the recipient’s research and interests, hosted at the MAK Center at the Schindler House.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture invites you to join author Eva Díaz in discussion with artists Oscar Tuazon and Connie Samaras to celebrate the release of Diaz’s After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-utopia, and Other Science Fictions. Diaz provides an expansive look at contemporary artists, including Tuazon and Samaras, who confront, challenge, and reimagine R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision more just futures.

Architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller’s (1895–1983) concept of “Spaceship Earth,” one of the most powerful metaphors of the twentieth century, imagines our planet as a monumental vehicle sustained by the interdependence of human technologies and natural ecologies. In this book, Eva Díaz explores that metaphor through the work of contemporary artists from around the world who grapple with Fuller’s project to promote the equitable distribution of global assets through design, and with the technocratic euphoria of his era.

The discussion is included with the price of admission. Click here to reserve your ticket.

Eva DÍaz

Eva Díaz is Professor of Contemporary Art History at Pratt. Her teaching and scholarship are informed by historical and contemporary interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and other cultural producers. Her first book, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College, was released in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press.

Díaz’s new book After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-utopia and Other Science Fictions, analyzing the influence of R. Buckminster Fuller in contemporary art, was published by Yale University Press in spring 2025. The book is supported by grants from the Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital, the Graham Foundation, a Barr-Ferree Grant, and the Pratt Faculty Development Fund. Recent sections of this project, featured in New Left Review, Aperture, e-flux journal, and Texte zur Kunst, take up artists’ challenges to a privatized and highly-surveilled future in outer space, analyzing how the space “race” and colonization can be reformulated as powerful means to readdress economic, gender, and racial inequality, as well as ecological injustices.

She recently edited the book Dorothea Rockburne, published by Dia Art Foundation and Yale University Press in 2024, contributing an essay on topology and techniques of folding in art. Díaz writes for magazines and journals such as The Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art Journal, Art in America, Cabinet, Frieze, Grey Room, Harvard Design Magazine, and October. Prior to coming to Pratt she taught at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Sarah Lawrence College, and Parsons; she also worked as the curator at Art in General. She is currently at work on a book that explores non-visual experiences in art, such as olfaction, topological procedures, and haptics, by examining the overvaluation of certain experiences in culture (vision and cognition, distance and analysis, for example) and the devaluation of others (smell and sensuality, proximity and the body). In support of this new research, Díaz was awarded a grant from the Huntington Library, and she was in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles as a Getty Scholar in 2023-2024.

CONNIE SAMARAS

Connie Samaras is a Los Angeles based artist and sometimes writer.  Over the past 45 years she has produced a range of projects in which the common denominators are an  ongoing engagement with social change, the confluence of vernacular and official histories, specualtive and auto fiction, and the intersection of political, cultural and psychological geographies in the everyday.  Relevant to the discussion with Eva and Oscar are her projects photographing built environments in range of places:  major U.S. cities, Dubai, the South Pole, Spaceport America (NM),  and an all women’s RV retirement community. The focus of these series considers how architecturally neo liberalism holds out the future as a singular probability in contrast to  communities that situate  the future as an ever changing series of multiple possibilities.  Recently over 50 works from these projects as well as  others were acquired in a jointly coordinated acquisition by LACMA, the Huntington, and the Getty.

OSCAR TUAZON

Oscar Tuazon is an artist based in Los Angeles and Oil City, Washington. Tuazon studied at The Cooper Union and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He is a co-founder of Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), New York in 2000; castillo/corrales, Paris in 2007; and Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Los Angeles in 2016. He is currently working on the design and construction of Water School as a permanent work of public art in the Great Basin region of Nevada, a long-term Land Back initiative in collaboration with the Goshute Tribe. His work has been included in the São Paulo Bienal, Chicago Architectural Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale and Skulptur Münster. Solo exhibitions include Le Consortium, Dijon; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. Something in the Water, curated by Tuazon, will run from April - September at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. In 2025, Tuazon completed a major public artwork for the City of Seattle. 

The Austrian Consulate General, Austrian Trade Commission, and MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Schindler House are pleased to invite experts and professionals to an upcoming panel discussion on Sustainable Materials in Urban Construction: Transatlantic Lessons from Austria and the U.S.

Panel 1: Beyond Concrete – Rethinking Materials for Sustainable Cities

This discussion will explore the future of construction materials beyond traditional options like concrete and steel. Panelists Gerhard W. Mayer, Frank Escher, and Mark Mack will discuss material innovations, circular economy solutions, and how new materials can reduce carbon emissions. The panel will compare Austrian/Swiss innovations with U.S. approaches and examine how regulatory frameworks and market demand drive material choices.

Panel 2: Designing the Sustainable City – Urban Development for a Changing World

Focus: This discussion will shift from materials to urban planning and city-scale sustainability challenges. Panelists Alexa Sekyra, Axel Schmitzberger, and Dana Bauer will explore how cities can integrate sustainable construction, renewable energy, and resilient design while overcoming regulatory, financial, and social barriers. The conversation will address how Los Angeles and Austrian cities are tackling sustainability from a planning and policy perspective.

GERHARD W. MAYER, Principal Architect and Urbanist at Mayer Architects

Mr. Mayer brings over 25 years of international experience in architecture and urban design, having worked across four continents. Originally from Vienna, Austria, he relocated to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship focused on sustainable design and architecture. His career includes collaborations with notable figures such as Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka and Frank Gehry in the United States. He leads Mayer Architects in Los Angeles, emphasizing the development of walkable, multimodal, and sustainable urban environments. Recently, Gerhard has been consulting on major local transit projects.

DR. ANDREA ALEXA SEKYRA, Head of the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute​ 

Dr. Sekyra is an art and architectural historian serving as the Head of the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In her role, she oversees initiatives that support scholarly research in the visual arts. Her academic background and leadership contribute significantly to advancing art historical studies and fostering academic collaborations. ​ 

FRANK ESCHER, Co-Founder of Escher GuneWardena Architecture

Mr. Escher co-founded Escher GuneWardena Architecture, a Los Angeles-based firm recognized for its innovative approach to design, which thoughtfully integrates modern aesthetics with historical contexts. The firm is known for its commitment to sustainability and the adaptive reuse of existing structures, reflecting a deep understanding of environmental and cultural considerations in architecture.​

MARK MACK, Architect and Educator​

Mr. Mack is a distinguished architect and educator celebrated for his contributions to contemporary architecture. He has been influential in promoting minimalist and sustainable design principles throughout his career. As an educator, he has imparted his vision for environmentally conscious architecture to students at various esteemed institutions, shaping future generations of architects.​

AXEL SCHMITZBERGER, Designer and Academic​ 

Mr. Schmitzberger is a designer and academic specializing in sustainable design and digital fabrication. His work explores the intersection of technology and sustainability, aiming to create innovative solutions to contemporary architectural challenges. Through his academic endeavors, he contributes to the advancement of design methodologies that address environmental concerns.​

DANA BAUER, Partner and Design Principal at Elysian Landscapes

Dana Bauer is a Partner and Design Principal at Elysian Landscapes, a Los Angeles-based landscape design practice. She joined the firm in 2012, bringing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates architecture, art, and urban engagement. With over 20 years of experience, Ms. Bauer has collaborated across various design fields, including fine art, theater, television, and dance. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of London's Bartlett School of Architecture. In addition to her professional practice, Ms. Bauer has served as design faculty at institutions such as SCI-Arc and the University of Southern California's School of Architecture, contributing to the academic discourse on design and sustainability.

AUSTRIAN CONSULATE GENERAL

The Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles is Austria’s official diplomatic representation for the Western United States, covering sixteen states including California. It serves as a key point of contact for Austrian citizens, companies, and institutions, and promotes Austria’s political, cultural, economic, and scientific interests in the region. The Consulate General supports a wide range of activities, from organizing official visits and cultural events to fostering academic and scientific collaboration. It also provides consular services such as passports, visas, and citizenship matters. Through its engagement with local communities, universities, policymakers, and cultural organizations, the Consulate General works to strengthen the close ties between Austria and the United States and represents Austrian values on the West Coast.

ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA

ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA (Austrian Trade Commission) is the trade promotion organization of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. With around 100 offices in over 70 countries, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA provides market intelligence, business development services, and networking opportunities for Austrian companies and their international business partners. A global team of 800 professionals organizes approximately 800 events annually, other services provided by ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA offices range from introductions to Austrian companies looking for importers, distributors, or agents to providing in-depth information on Austria as a business location and assistance in entering the Austrian market. ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA works to generate more international business opportunities by promoting the products and services of Austrian businesses around the world, by helping companies and organizations outside Austria to build strong relationships with Austrian companies and by fostering the exchange of the world’s and Austria’s best minds and innovations. The Austrian Trade Commission in Los Angeles covers the following industries of the entire US market: Agriculture, Aviation & Aerospace, Electrics & Electronics, Entertainment (Music, Film), Environmental Technologies, Forestry & Timber, Green/Sustainable Building, Infrastructure (Traffic & Transportation), Logistics & Transportation, Maritime, Mining, New Technologies (Energy Conversion, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Semiconductor, Software Development), Rail, Renewables & Natural Resources, Safety Standards, Software & IT, Sporting Goods and Leisure, Telecommunications, Test & Measuring Instruments.

MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Founded in 1994, the MAK Center is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization and the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. The core of the programming includes the internationally recognized MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects. The MAK Center works in cooperation with the Friends of the Schindler House (FoSH), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and maintain Schindler's Kings Road house in West Hollywood.

Join us for the opening reception of Final Projects: Group LVI, exhibiting bodies of work produced by our Artists and Architects-in-Residence, Artor Jesus Inkerö, Ursula Mayer, and Paula Strunden. Final Projects: Group LVI marks the culmination of the 56th iteration of the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments.

**This program has been cancelled due to the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles

“Experiments with Life Itself”
—Francisco González de Canales

This workshop is made for the study of perspective and botany to create textiles through printing with nature, collage, drawing, embroidery, patchwork for finished interior tapestries to translate to a garment or sculpture. Examples will be shown and open to free interpretation, always in flux. 

Understanding the process of making as a process of healing, Susan Cianciolo leads the program as an extension of her spiritual practice, building off her 2009 cookbook This Cookbook Is Made for Jesus.

This program includes a meditation, tea and lunch.

SUSAN CIANCIOLO

Susan Cianciolo was born in 1969 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in New York. Between 1995 and 2001, she created eleven ‘runs’ of handmade, unique garments under her label RUN, which at one time was alternatively incarnated as a popup restaurant. Her presentations blended fashion with music, film, performance, and food. Cianciolo has held academic appointments at Städelschule, Parsons School of Design, Yale School of Art and NYU Steinhardt. Since 2013, she has been Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Pratt Institute. Her work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at The Community Centre, Pantin (2022); the Lumber Room, Portland (2021); South London Gallery (2019); Yale Union, Portland (2016); and 365 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles (2016). Her participation in the 2017 Whitney Biennial saw the reprisal of RUN Restaurant as Run Restaurant Untitled, a three-day installation and gastronomic event.

TICKETS TO RON ATHEY GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT: AUTOMATIC WRITING PERFORMANCE ARE NOW SOLD OUT.

This public performance follows a workshop bringing together 15 automatic writers, 5 ecstatic typists, and 2 editors using Gysin/Burroughs cut-up technique to create a series of collectively authored texts. Working on approaching the paper with hypnotic inductions and somatic work, participants will access (and channel) the writing and drawing sessions. The collectively authored score will be performed by Ron Athey following the conclusion of the workshop.

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RON ATHEY

Ron Athey has worked in esoteric forms since the early 1990s including ecstatic state movement, archetype work, hypnosis, glossalalia, and automatic writing installations that consult both Spiritualist practices and early surrealism. The first version of this piece, Gifts of the Spirit, was developed in the Great Hall at Queen Mary University, London. The last version, a collaboration with Opera Povera, was an opera at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 2018.

This workshop brings together 15 automatic writers, 5 ecstatic typists, and 2 editors using Gysin/Burroughs cut-up technique to create a series of collectively authored texts. Working on approaching the paper with hypnotic inductions and somatic work, participants will be able to access (and channel) the writing and drawing sessions. The collectively authored score will be performed by Ron Athey following the conclusion of the workshop. This performance will be open to the public. 

RON ATHEY

Ron Athey has worked in esoteric forms since the early 1990s including ecstatic state movement, archetype work, hypnosis, glossalalia, and automatic writing installations that consult both Spiritualist practices and early surrealism. The first version of this piece, Gifts of the Spirit, was developed in the Great Hall at Queen Mary University, London. The last version, a collaboration with Opera Povera, was an opera at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 2018.