Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) featured a series of artist-led walks curated by Jens Hoffman (of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London). Titled “A Walk to Remember,” the exhibition brings together walks by LA-based artists John Baldassari, Jennifer Bornstein, Meg Cranston, Morgan Fisher, Evan Holloway, Paul McCarthy, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Allen Ruppersberg and Eric Welsey. Participants on each of the walks will be given a disposable camera with which to document the event, with the results being displayed in LACE’s exhibition space.
The descriptions of the walks hosted by LACE range from a leisurely walk below the Hollywood sign in Griffith Park (Bornstein and Wesley) to a trip to Sherman Indian High School, one of three remaining
off-reservation Native American boarding schools in the country (Cranston). Fisher and Ruppersberg set out to explore the intersections of personal and collective memory in the ever changing urban landscapes of Santa Monica and Hollywood, respectively. There are also “instruction” pieces, where walkers are asked to either photograph all the street signs from Baldassari’s studio or perform their own walk ten consecutive times, per McCarthy’s request.
Footnote: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=17655&page=1
Visit the LACE website for full infos: http://www.artleak.org/
Posted by delpesco at February 18, 2006 05:09 AM