#Rosten Woo

[huntingtonlibrary]

Beside the Edge of the World

Opening this Saturday, Nov. 9: exhibition Beside the Edge of the World began with a treasured book in The Huntington’s collections: a first edition of Thomas More’s Utopia, printed in 1516. This 500-year-old text served as a jumping-off point for the fourth year of /five, The Huntington’s contemporary arts initiative, in partnership with Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop. 

Three artists and two writers were invited to consider More’s classic work as they explored The Huntington’s collections. The process of discovery started with ideas of mapping borders and edges, temporarily forgotten histories, peoples whose lives had been carefully recorded—and then forgotten—and utopian experiments in communal living. Many of these places and the people who challenged the dominant narratives of history existed on the periphery. 

Read more about each project below:

Artist Nina Katchadourian’s work Strange Creature was inspired by The Huntington’s collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps and books, as well as the ancient Chinese mythological text Shan Hai Jing (Guideways through Mountains and Seas). The myriad of creatures depicted in these ancient texts offered a challenge: How much have we really seen of the world, and how well do we know it? Katchadourian imagined a creature, somewhat familiar but also strange, slowly surfacing from our own Chinese Garden’s Lake of Reflected Fragrance. Her installation suggests that there is more around us than we can see or perceive—literally, and perhaps also in an otherworldly sense. See if you can catch a glimpse of her creation in the Chinese Garden. 

Writer Robin Coste Lewis was inspired by a particular passage in Henry David Thoreau's canonical Walden; or, Life in the Woods. In a chapter titled “Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors,” Thoreau describes the community of free Blacks that had been living around Walden Pond long before Thoreau arrived. For Lewis, this passage contained a hidden call to the rediscovery of African American histories woven into the story of Concord, Massachusetts, and hence, America. In order to extend Thoreau’s experiment, she omitted much of the chapter’s text and rearranged the remaining lines to emphasize, lyrically, the free Black community that had once called the woods home. 

Artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s film Laurel Sabino y Jagüilla takes its title from a species native to the artist’s birthplace and home on the island of Puerto Rico, a flowering plant now endangered by logging and wood harvesting. Magnolia is an ancient genus, dating back 20 million years; its family, Magnoliaceae, has survived ice ages, mountain formation, and continental drift. Filmed in the rain forest of Puerto Rico and in the gardens of The Huntington, the work imagines the relationship of Magnolia splendens to utopia, photography, soil, vision, and time.

Writer Dana Johnson’s short story Our Endless Ongoing reimagines the life of Delilah Beasley in early twentieth-century California. Delilah Leontium Beasley (1871–1934), an American historian and columnist for the Oakland Tribune, was one of the first African American women to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper. She also became the first person to document the overlooked but significant history of California’s Black pioneers, in her book The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), published the same year as the founding of The Huntington.

Artist Rosten Woo created Another World Lies Beyond as a series of interrelated stories told through audio, projection, and artifact, installed in the gallery and in the gardens to invite contemplation and political reflection. The narrative through-line is the life and work of Robert V. Hine (1921–2015), a scholar of California utopian communities whose papers are housed at The Huntington. Each audio story offers a glimpse of an idea of the perfect state and the world just beyond it. Additionally, a short animated film by Woo brings together all the illustrations from John Russell Bartlett’s failed 1857 survey of the U.S.–Mexico border, included in the Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.

images:

Nina Katchadourian looks at maps from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) by Abraham Ortelius, ca. 1606. Photo by Kate Lain.

Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968), Study for “Strange Creature,” 2019. Watercolor, pencil, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Pace Gallery.

Robin Coste Lewis (b. 1964), excerpt from poetry chapbook Inhabitants and Visitors, Los Angeles, Clockshop, 2019. 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz filming in The Huntington’s gardens. The Huntington. Photo by Kate Lain. 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (b. 1972), film still from Laurel Sabino y Jagüilla, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. 

Dana Johnson at The Huntington. Photo by Kate Lain.

Dana Johnson (b. 1967), “Our Endless Ongoing” featured in Trailblazer: Delilah Beasley’s California, Los Angeles, Clockshop, 2019.

Rosten Woo at The Huntington. Photo by Kate Lain.

Rosten Woo (b. 1977), excerpt from Another World Lies Beyond, 2019. 

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, the Pasadena Art Alliance, and WHH Foundation.

Beside the Edge of the World is a Huntington Centennial Exhibition. The Huntington’s Centennial Celebration is made possible by the generous support of Avery and Andrew Barth, Terri and Jerry Kohl, and Lisa and Tim Sloan.

[anniekoh]

LA County: Willowbrook

Willowbrook Is

Willowbrook, an unincorporated neighborhood of Los Angeles County south of downtown Los Angeles, northwest of Compton and just south of Watts, is undergoing a major urban transformation spurred by the landmark reopening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. As part of the significant planning process, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and project partners LA Commons and artist Rosten Woo, employed innovative research and engagement strategies to identify and map the community's cultural assets.

[solarpunk-gnome]

SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 12, 2018) – On September 30th, the Exploratorium launches Rosten Woo’s Mutual Air, a sound installation comprised of sculptures that will ‘chime in’ the fluctuations in local air quality in downtown and West Oakland, as well as global CO2 levels. As with many Exploratorium projects, Mutual Air will be an experience that cultivates curiosity and encourages investigation of the world around us. The installation will also help build a sense of personal connection to the indicators of climate change. The series of networked sensors will respond to the presence of particulate matter in the air, highlighting our shared resource—the air around us—as well as the disparities in air quality and pollution across the city. Since 2014, Rosten Woo has been an Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence, and his work reflects both the institution’s interdisciplinary approach to the arts and our commitment to investigation of the natural world.

“The Exploratorium believes strongly that artists have a crucial role to play in public engagement with climate change,” says senior artist at the Exploratorium and director of the Fisher Bay Observatory, Susan Schwartzenberg. “We’re thrilled to announce Rosten Woo’s Mutual Air, which will serve as a reminder to the residents of the Bay Area that there are constant changes happening in the environment around us, even if we can’t see them.”

“Mutual Air allows us to access the dynamic quality of the air, which is otherwise invisible,” says Rosten Woo. “I was inspired by the historic use of bells, which once kept the daily rhythms of towns and connected its residents. What if we could connect contemporary urban spaces by sonifying this resource? It will be especially interesting to hear how the sounds produced differ in areas of industry, green space, or of historic socioeconomic inequity.”

Woo asks the public to participate by being curious observers, or even by becoming a steward of a bell, meaning they will agree to host one of the sound installation structures on their property, either affixed to their building or on a mount in their yard. Those interested in this opportunity should attend the launch event on September 30th or visit the project website MutualAir.org.

[More at the link]

[josescaliforniastory-blog]

INTERVIEW:

I then asked my dad what city he settled in to start his new life. My father replied, “Van Nuys. Your uncle had other Immigrant friends in Van Nuys. His friends and your uncle helped me move there and find a job where it was more affordable”. When I was younger I remembered living in Van Nuys where a majority of the population was people of color. His response reminded me of “Naming Los Angeles” by Rosten Woo. Woo brings forward the bad reputation Van Nuys had for being economically different than it’s nearby city, Sherman Oaks (Woo, 2015, 3). Sherman Oaks attempted to have Van Nuys renamed and become a part of Sherman Oaks but this process was about profit and was supporting negative stigmas of Van Nuys (Woo, 2015, 3). From what my dad remembers and through these images, Van Nuys was our home and my dad spent his first great years in California there regardless of negative stereotypes. From what he remembers, Van Nuys was a place that felt like home and a place where he had support from others.

IMAGE:

Jose (left) Moises (Uncle) (right)

[giarts]

Affordable Housing: How to house 7,000 people and how to fund it

Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on December 5, 2019

Theater artists & activists John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers and designer Rosten Woo are creating a project that aims to achieve “Skid Row Now & 2040,” a community-generated alternative development plan designed for and by the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The project seeks to challenge a "proposed upscale development and resist displacement by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning (DCP)’s DTLA 2040 community plan," explains an article in A Blade of Grass Magazine.

“Skid Row Now & 2040 wants generations of families and Skid Row residents to lead full, vibrant lives in Downtown LA. [ . . . ] No displacements of extremely-low-income residents should occur; policies that promote the Human Right to Housing should be enacted. The DTLA 2040 update shouldn’t include any policies or zoning changes that harm low-income communities of color. This includes policies that lead to criminalization,” reads Skid Row Now & 2040's guiding principles of their proposal.

The article explains that,

A Blade of Grass fellows Malpede, Brouwers, and Woo will integrate an exhibition, public conversation, and research into financing mechanisms with the support of researcher Anna Kobara from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. They will engage the DCP and neighborhood residents about “Skid Row Now & 2040” to collectively enact a city plan that houses and protects all of Skid Row’s low-income and homeless residents.

In a conversation between Jeremy Liu of Policy Link, Malpede, Brouwers, and Woo address "how their project challenges assumptions and ways of working within the community planning and affordable housing sectors."

Jeremy Liu: One of the [findings] from working with seven organizations over the last couple years was that we really need to equip arts and culture organizations with a policy strategy person in residence. And you all figured out this prototype for what that could look like in this collaboration! That’s definitely something I plan to lift up in my sector. How has Anna being part of your work changed the way you all think and do your own work? Rosten Woo: I usually spend a huge chunk of the project just trying to get my head around the policy, so it feels like we have a great head start! And I don’t feel burdened with always knowing everything about this stuff. Just having someone with real expertise to bounce things off of is super great.

Read here the article.

Image: Via A Blade of Grass Magazine / Map of Downtown Los Angeles depicting the fifty square blocks that make up Skid Row.

Posted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on December 05, 2019 at 01:24PM. Read the full post.

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If Pets Had Thumbs

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.~Orhan Pamuk

    A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings

Service Dogs at Off Leash Recreation Areas?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Puppies. Puppy Day March 23.

Puppies. Puppy Day March 23.

  Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning at least once. ~ M.K. Clinton

March 3, If Pets Had Thumbs Day

There are well and truly a few pets that do have thumbs which we will briefly look at first, then it will be fun to delve into scenarios if your pet dog had opposable thumbs.  But what is an opposable thumb?  Wikipedia quotes primatologists and hand research pioneers John and Prudence Napier who defined opposition as: “A movement by which the pulp surface of the thumb is placed squarely in contact with – or diametrically opposite to – the terminal pads of one or all of the remaining digits.”

Emily Carr 1871-1945, Canadian Artist and writer actually did have a pet with opposable thumbs. “Woo” was a Javanese Monkey who played alongside Carr’s pure bred Blueshire Old English Sheep Dogs. However Emily Carr was not the only pet owner to fall in love with a monkey, Justin Beiber, singer and performer for a short while owned a pet Capuchin Monkey, Mally. However as a rule, most pet owners do not own opossums, Koalas are a protected species, and orangutans, gorillas and other apes are usually only seen in nature or in a zoo, and not as a pet.

So, in exploring these primates, and other animals with opposable thumbs, it is now time to consider what your pet dog do if they had opposable thumbs.

They could play fetch with each other! With opposable thumbs your puppy could pick up a stick or ball and be able to move it around, perhaps learning a tossing or throwing motion.

They could pick up their meal as does a racoon, and eat it sitting on their haunches.

Having opposable thumbs, would mean that the puppies, upon sighting a bird or squirrel in a tree, would be able to climb trees as monkeys and apes can.

If your dog had opposable thumbs, they would be able to operate tools, much as a raccoon, can open a garbage can lid, or twist open a door handle easily. A raccoon has five fingers, and no thumb, but has learned how to grip and grasp items between both hands, enabling it to learn many tasks, and wash it food etc.  Your dog, also uses their paws to gain egress around a door or gate, hold their toy kong still, Etc. With opposable thumbs, this task would become much easier for your pet dog.

With opposable thumbs, the pack of dogs would be able to pick up sticks and stones and in addition to their teeth, would be better able to protect themselves and their pups.

Hanging and swinging could be achieved with opposable thumbs, so your dog, could have a great lark of a time creating all sorts of new activities in trees and along tree tops.  Combined with their usual stalking, leaping and pouncing being able to rise above, could result in some complex maneuvres.

At the moment, dogs can only groom themselves, and remove burrs and rose branches from their fur with their teeth or by licking themselves with their tongue or ask their humans to help them. With opposable thumbs, how much easier it would be for each individual dog to relieve the pain of snow, rocks from the soft pads of their paws, or to sit and help the dogs in their pack to remove a burr from their fur.

If your puppy had opposable thumbs, they could enter and leave their owners home with the door handle, and pet doors would become history.

The supper, steak, or pies left out on table or counter would be much much easier to get to with opposable thumbs, if that pooch had not undergone training yet.

Puppies now can pick up their leashes with their mouth to ask their owners for a walk, but with opposable thumbs, this task along with fetching newspapers and slippers becomes a lot easier.

If puppies and dogs had opposable thumbs, it would be easier for a dog to communicate that they have the urge to go outside if you lived in a home without a puppy door. Your puppy rather than gently laying their paw upon your hand or arm, the dog could actually hold your hand and urge you up for a walk, or to go outside.

With opposable thumbs, many, many more tricks could be taught to the dogs, and by the same token more training would be required, as they would be able to climb up and anywhere in the house or outside.

Emily Carr dressed her monkey “Woo” in a bright red dress, and out they went for a walk.  In short order Woo escaped up a tree, and divested herself of the dress on the peak of the same tree, and down Woo clambered.  In like fashion, if your pet dog did not like the booties, hat, sweater or jacket that their pet owner bundled them up in, with opposable thumbs, they could follow Woo’s lead, and removed any fashion accessory.  It wouldn’t take long to determine if your pet dog appreciated the booties to keep the snow out from the pads of their paws, or if your pet pooch felt the -40 Celsius weather, and appreciated their winter jacket, or if their original fur coat does the task of keeping them warm enough, thank you very much.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.~Orhan Pamuk

How attuned you are to your dog, would make a large difference if your pet had opposable thumbs. Even without opposable thumbs, dogs learn to dance, twirl, and communicate with their paws with their humans, just imagine the communications and tricks if dogs had opposable thumbs.

Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect~ William R. Koehler

Without a doubt, your pet dog could make use of an opposable thumb, and the tricks they could learn would be so darned cute.  So these are just a few whimsical ideas to celebrate, “What if Pets Had Thumbs Day”, March 3″=. Next time you are out at the South West Off Leash Recreation Area, and see the pooches running this way and that, imagine, if you will what these dogs would do if they had opposable thumbs.  What do you think your dog would be able to do?

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~Leo Rosten

For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

For more information:

Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area,  George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits

P4G Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth The P4G consists of the Cities of Saskatoon, Warman, and Martensville, the Town of Osler and the Rural Municipality of Corman Park; planning for areas around the afforestation area and West Swale outside of Saskatoon city limits

Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′ Addresses: Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063 Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map

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Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

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You Tube Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

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Should you wish to help protect / enhance the afforestation areas, please contact the City of Saskatoon, Corporate Revenue Division, 222 3rd Ave N, Saskatoon, SK S7K 0J5…to support the afforestation area with your donation please state that your donation should support the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, or the George Genereux Urban Regional Park, or both afforestation areas located in the Blairmore Sector. Please and thank you!  Your donation is greatly appreciated.

1./ Learn.

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3./ Do Something: ***

  “St. Barbe’s unique capacity to pass on his enthusiasm to others. . . Many foresters all over the world found their vocations as a result of hearing ‘The Man of the Trees’ speak. I certainly did, but his impact has been much wider than that. Through his global lecture tours, St. Barbe has made millions of people aware of the importance of trees and forests to our planet.” Allan Grainger

“The science of forestry arose from the recognition of a universal need. It embodies the spirit of service to mankind in attempting to provide a means of supplying forever a necessity of life and, in addition, ministering to man’s aesthetic tastes and recreational interests. Besides, the spiritual side of human nature needs the refreshing inspiration which comes from trees and woodlands. If a nation saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. And nations as well as tribes may be brought together in this great movement, based on the ideal of beautifying the world by the cultivation of one of God’s loveliest creatures – the tree.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.

For me, “Dog Days” symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom, and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.” Florence Welch

Primatology and dogs If Pets Had Thumbs Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.~Orhan Pamuk…

[little-wars]

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

It’s a project by Daniel Tucker and Rosten Woo

[dtladirectory]

Be A Hero - CausePlay Sunday, May 27, 2018 2pm to 8 pm Come celebrate the Chinatown Yard Alliance by playing in the park they fought to establish! Along with games there will be opportunities to learn about art in the park, history, wild animals, and much more. The celebration concludes with a campfire! Tentative schedule: 2pm: Event starts with Yoga, DJ, and games 3pm: Lion Dancers 4pm: Artist Panel moderated by Tom Carroll (of Tom Explores Los Angeles). Participating artists: Lauren Bon, Rosten Woo, Debra Scacco, Anna Sew Hoy, and Fallen Fruit. 5pm: "Here and Then: A walk through the Los Angeles history gateway" with UCLA Prof. Fabian Wagmister 6pm: Nature of Wildworks: come see and learn about wild animals 7pm: Campfire + free s'mores This day we will unveil the final phase of Rosten Woo's piece, A Park is Made by People. This is an oral history of the grassroots effort to save this land as much needed open-space. Find him, and many of our other inspiring artists, at the artist panel discussion! Tentative activities and games: large beach balls, cooking demo, tree giveaways, rock wall, tie dyeing, giant chess and connect four, knot making, and much more! Please join us in celebrating the power of the people to cause positive change through collective action. #RostenWoo #dtladirectory #Natureofwildworks #dtla #tomexploresla (at Los Angeles State Historic Park)

[environmentguru]

The Back 9: Golf and Zoning Policy in Los Angeles

Event Date: Sep 8, 2017 - Oct 6, 2017; Event City: Los Angeles, CA, US Please join Materials & Applications, Los Angeles Poverty Department and Rosten Woo for a round of mini-golf! “The Back 9” is a playable educational golf course about zon https://www.environmentguru.com/pages/elements/element.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr&id=5343952

[sipatsequoyah]

“Gilda Haas and I created Blocks and Lots as a tool for learning about zoning. It has an online version and a physical "tabletop" version. Blocks and Lots challenges groups of players to work together and imagine the "game" of zoning from multiple subject positions. It's a game of negotiation and coalition building. This project was commissioned by Esperanza Community Housing Corporation with support from the NEA.“

(via Rosten Woo - Blocks and Lots)

[huntingtonlibrary]

"In looking through the collection, I was interested in boundaries, including political boundaries, and the kinds of practical and theoretical problems they bring up...For a good 50 years after the U.S.-Mexico boundary was drawn, they had to redraw the line every three years and set markers along it, though now it’s pretty clearly delineated and militarized. So, it’s really easy to draw the line but really complicated to make it mean something."

Read more from Rosten Woo, one of our 2019 #5atTheH artists, as he examines ideas of perfection through the lens of Thomas More's "Utopia," early utopian settlements in California, and drawings from an expedition marking the U.S.-Mexico border. 

One of Woo’s contribution’s to the upcoming /five exhibition, “Utopia In Out Over Through,” consists of five audio tours that bridge The Huntington’s garden and gallery and focus on the archive of historian Robert Hine. Rosten’s audio tour takes listeners through stories from Hine’s research: to the U.S.-Mexico border; to Kaweah Colony, a utopian commune in Northern California; and into the Chinese Garden.

More on Verso: http://bit.ly/2lNfvjg

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: Attend an Artist’s Workshop on Zoning Laws in Los Angeles

Rosten Woo presents the workshop ‘What is Affordable Housing?’ for LA Poverty Department’s project The Back 9 on January 7, 2017. (photo by Henriëtte Brouwers, courtesy LA Poverty Department)

The designer, writer, and educator Rosten Woo is organizing a multidisciplinary exhibition with the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Titled The Back 9: Golf and Zoning Policy in Los Angeles, it will examine the policies that have shaped, and continue to shape, the city’s development. The exhibition, opening in May, will be designed as a mini-golf course, highlighting the power dynamics at play in land use approaches, zoning, and urban planning.

May seems far away, but in the meantime Woo is organizing a series of free workshops and talks leading up to the opening of The Back 9. This Saturday, Woo will lead a workshop on zoning that aims to answer the questions, “Who does it serve and why should you care?” It will involve games and activities created by Woo when he was director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, including building a city of blocks that adheres to height and use regulations, and a role-playing exercise that envisions neighborhood planning through the eyes of various residents.

When: Saturday, March 11, 3–5pm Where: Skid Row History Museum & Archive (250 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles)

More info here.

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[godivareisen]

WK13: symposium (1 of 2)

Against all odds, I actually got *something* resembling my ideal final installation up in time for Symposium Day. It was 85-90% finished, which was good enough for being able to share my project with the symposium respondents/panelists.

To give some context, for the past 4 years, MDP has invited external designers to respond to thesis students’ work. This year, the respondents were:

Miya Osaki Co-founder of Diagram Office in New York and MDP alum

Daniela Rosner Assistant Professor in Human-Centered Design & Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle

Rosten Woo LA-based artist, designer, and educator

After some behind-the-scenes “matchmaking” each respondent is assigned a group of students. My respondent was Daniela Rosner! Although our conversation was relatively brief (only 20 minutes), she seemed to instantly “get” my work. Which isn’t too shabby for talking about it through a not-quite-finished installation. 

[walkermag]

Art house: Los Angeles and New York artists tackle the inequity of real estate

From Rosten Woo’s zoning-themed mini-golf course in LA’s Skid Row to the discussions Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida are hosting in NYC apartments about housing in the city, artists are increasingly engaged with tackling the issues of real estate inequity.

[clockshopla]

Rosten Woo’s LA Interpretive Signage Program: 3 opens today at the Bowtie Project (approx. 2800 Casitas Ave.), 4 - 6:30 PM.  Be sure to bring headphones with you so you can dive into this walking audio tour while you’re on site.

(via https://soundcloud.com/ostenoo/sets/bowtie-parcel-nature-walk?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)