SPARE PARTS is a renewable cycle of projects commissioned and produced by Eloisa Haudenschild and Steve Fagin, 3 over a 3-year cycle that will encourage the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial & the arcane. Our initial cycle, CHEEK2CHEEK, is under development with projects in Palestine, Argentina & the US.
The project Decolonizing Architecture is a collaboration between London-based architect & theorist Eyal Weizman & Bethlehem-based architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. Giorgio Agamben is among the consultants for this project that takes the settlement of Psagot, overlooking Ramallah, and redesigns it for a post-evacuation time and context.
A Crime Has Many Stories, an exquisite corpse project based on Richard Piglia's short story, La Loca y el Relato del Crimen, set in Buenos Aires & plotted with co-conspirators Judi Werthein, Sonia Becce & Alejandro Ruiz.
The Last Book project, directed by Steve Fagin, resurrects the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, new technologies. To conjure a future as the past in reverse, a one-of-a-kind book, including handwritten text, moving images and sound. The text will be provided by Mary Gaitskill & the moving images courtesy of Leslie Thornton.
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garageACTIVITIES
The garage hosts symposia, lectures, and film screenings, and routinely collaborates with international institutions & emerging artists. Whether residency, dialogue or artist commission, the garage hopes that through providing a permissive context for opinion and production, new ideas and visions will have an opportunity to take shape.
The haudenschildGARAGE has held numerous events and collaborated with multiple institutions (UCSD, UCLA & SDSU), museums (MOCA, LACMA, MOPA, ASU, SDMA & OCMA) and alternative spaces (LAX & New Chinatown Barbershop).
Larger events, GARAGE TALKS, have included The Political Equator II Conferences with a la Plastica, Urban Think Tank, Raul Cardenas of Torolab and Ariana Hernandez, 3 Tacos and a Martini with Teddy Cruz, Joshua Kun, Michael Kirchman and Yvonne Venegas, Cao Fei at the Orange County Museum of Art, Walid Raad, Asian Art Now with curator Mami Kataoka, Norman Bryson, Doryun Chong, & Yukie Kamiya, the panel Alternative Universes: Emerging Artists’ Spaces, inSite_05 Conversations, and Political Equator I, a 3 day event featuring Hou Hanru, Pi Li, Andrew Ross, Teddy Cruz, Steve Fagin, and Eyal Weizman, among others. This event included the World Premiere of Cao Fei’s video Whose Utopia.
The haudenschildGARAGE artist-in-residence program has featured Tom Zummer, Shi Yong and Yang Zhenzhong. All three residencies produced new works. More at More info at: haudenschildgarage.com
FUEL4TALK
The haudenschildGARAGE hosts FUEL4TALKS, series of small format interviews where the food is taken on the run. Our guest of honor will select their favorite take-out and host a small symposium. Past FUEL4TALKS included Lincoln Schatz, Jim Nisbet, Lisa Tan with Derrick Cartwright & Lauri Firstenberg, Leslie Thornton, Martha Rosler, Orchard New York, Eduardo Abaroa, and Slavoj Zizek. More info at: haudenschildgarage.com
garagePROJECTS
Highlighting ongoing relationships with other institutions and alternative art spaces, the haudenschildGARAGE works directly with artists through GARAGE PROJECTS. In 2007 Raul Cardenas of Torolab was commissioned to construct an Emergency/Conversation Table as the setting for the Political Equator II conferences. Matthew Schum attended the 10th Istanbul Biennale and posted daily blogs about the intersection of artists and curators. He also interviewed organizing curator, Hou Hanru. Karla Diaz participated in the 2007 Prague Biennial with Mario Ybarra Jr. In this two-part project, they constructed a mural in Prague and created a web-journal of her experiences. Lisa Tan traveled to Buenos Aires in May of 2007 to collect abstract rubbings from the Recoleta cemetery. In 2006 the haudenschildGARAGE collaborated with the New Chinatown Barbershop Los Angeles for The Graffiti Project by bringing 8 graffiti artists together to create a work in our Los Angeles space, scroll up to see the video produced for this event. More info at: haudenschildgarage.com
Wishing to provide a cultural platform that stands somewhere between a salon and an alternative space, the goal of haudenschildGARAGE is to be a home away from home for cultural experimentation, play and conversation.
Whether residency, dialogue or artists commission, the hope is that through providing a permission context for opinion and production, new ideas and visions will have an opportunity to take shape.
This video: Fat Sack Films, the haudenschildGarage, in collaboration with the New Chinatown Barbershop presents The Graffiti Project. Devised as a collaboration between Los Angeles based New Chinatown Barbershop and the haudenschildGARAGE, eight graffiti artists were invited to create a unique project in a private space in Los Angeles. The participating artists were Karla Diaz, Mario Ybarra Jr., Germs, Neo, Retna, Sherm, Spew, & Zender. Video copyright 2006, Placaso Media, LLC.
