RECLAMATION READS
A Reclamation Event in conjunction with Aquarium
Date: Sunday, February 28th
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: At Sea and Space Gallery (4755 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042, www.seaandspace.org)
Coupled with the AQUARIUM installation, this reading is an extension of a series of environmentally conscious pseudo religious works called RECLAMATION, whose mission statement asks its participants, “What if people took the environment as seriously as religion?” Reclamation Reads recontextualizes this statement and asks what the world would look like if everyone decided to take the environment as seriously as they take Work - that obligatory, livelihood sustaining, spiritual, dogmatic, rewarding, ritualistic daily grind.
Join us for a FREE light reception and watch as our participants reclaim, rework, reuse, recycle, reform, reduce, and reprocess these ideas.
A Reclamation Event in conjunction with Aquarium
Date: Sunday, February 28th
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: At Sea and Space Gallery (4755 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042, www.seaandspace.org)
Coupled with the AQUARIUM installation, this reading is an extension of a series of environmentally conscious pseudo religious works called RECLAMATION, whose mission statement asks its participants, “What if people took the environment as seriously as religion?” Reclamation Reads recontextualizes this statement and asks what the world would look like if everyone decided to take the environment as seriously as they take Work - that obligatory, livelihood sustaining, spiritual, dogmatic, rewarding, ritualistic daily grind.
Join us for a FREE light reception and watch as our participants reclaim, rework, reuse, recycle, reform, reduce, and reprocess these ideas.
The Reading Participants:
Maya Gingery
Narinda Heng
Janice Lee
Alex Mack
Stephen van Dyck
Co-curated by: Caroline Chang & Jared Woodland
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WHAT'S RECLAMATION?
RECLAMATION is a series of events including musical performances, readings, and lectures held in the space throughout the duration of AQUARIUM’s exhibition will allow participants and visitors to further the discussion. Big Whup, Dublab, Emily Lacy, Human Ear Music, Gerhard Schultz, and *SADIE are among the musical guests who will take on and interpret the concepts behind AQUARIUM. Caroline Chang, Jared Woodland, and Daiana Feuer will present readings that include original work by writers who both promote and challenge Reclamation, and John Matthew Heard will launch his latest project, Wilderness Boundary.
AQUARIUM is the second in the Reclamation series, co-founded by Drew Denny and Kyoung Kim in January 2009, which recombines and recontextualizes environmental practices and faith into a pseudo-religion. Reclamation investigates issues of collective consciousness, group versus individual think, and belief systems. It incorporates shared elements among religions and systems of belief, including the need for a space in which to congregate, contemplate, and connect by referring to shared text, vocabulary, and rituals.
Reclamation’s installations are environmentally-conscious in form and content; they consist of recycled materials and use kinetic energy generated by individuals. Unlike “green” art created with new technologies inaccessible to most people, Reclamation spaces are created using DIY methods accessible to everyone. Additional Reclamation spaces are Planetarium, Solarium, and Terrarium, which correspond to the elements of air, water, fire, and earth. Planetarium was installed July-October 2009 at Environmentaland in Los Angeles; Terrarium will be installed September-October 2010 at Hotel MariaKapel in Hoorn, Netherlands; and Solarium will be installed in 2011 at a location TBD.
For more information please go to:
contact: info@reclamationproject.org / info@seaandspace.org
info: www.reclamationproject.org
Maya Gingery
Narinda Heng
Janice Lee
Alex Mack
Stephen van Dyck
Co-curated by: Caroline Chang & Jared Woodland
========================================================
WHAT'S RECLAMATION?
RECLAMATION is a series of events including musical performances, readings, and lectures held in the space throughout the duration of AQUARIUM’s exhibition will allow participants and visitors to further the discussion. Big Whup, Dublab, Emily Lacy, Human Ear Music, Gerhard Schultz, and *SADIE are among the musical guests who will take on and interpret the concepts behind AQUARIUM. Caroline Chang, Jared Woodland, and Daiana Feuer will present readings that include original work by writers who both promote and challenge Reclamation, and John Matthew Heard will launch his latest project, Wilderness Boundary.
AQUARIUM is the second in the Reclamation series, co-founded by Drew Denny and Kyoung Kim in January 2009, which recombines and recontextualizes environmental practices and faith into a pseudo-religion. Reclamation investigates issues of collective consciousness, group versus individual think, and belief systems. It incorporates shared elements among religions and systems of belief, including the need for a space in which to congregate, contemplate, and connect by referring to shared text, vocabulary, and rituals.
Reclamation’s installations are environmentally-conscious in form and content; they consist of recycled materials and use kinetic energy generated by individuals. Unlike “green” art created with new technologies inaccessible to most people, Reclamation spaces are created using DIY methods accessible to everyone. Additional Reclamation spaces are Planetarium, Solarium, and Terrarium, which correspond to the elements of air, water, fire, and earth. Planetarium was installed July-October 2009 at Environmentaland in Los Angeles; Terrarium will be installed September-October 2010 at Hotel MariaKapel in Hoorn, Netherlands; and Solarium will be installed in 2011 at a location TBD.
For more information please go to:
contact: info@reclamationproject.org / info@seaandspace.org
info: www.reclamationproject.org
