haudenschild Garage, Spare Parts presents
Steve Fagin
The Last Book: This Ain’t Your Grandson’s Kindle
Performance: Sunday, April 26 2009, 4pm – 7pm
MAK Center for Art and Architecture,
Schindler House, Los Angeles
Such is the goal of The Last Book, produced by the haudenschildGarage, a Spare Parts project, conceptualized and directed by Steve Fagin. Its vainglory is the attempt to resurrect the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, the new technologies, to conjure a future as the past in reverse. To this end the haudenschildGarage has constructed a one of a kind book that includes text, drawings, moving images and sounds. Its construction in the medieval, supersized tradition consists of three illuminated folios each eighteen and a half inches high, thirteen inches wide and three inches deep. The Last Book has enlisted the writing skills of Mary Gaitskill, the moving images of Leslie Thornton and YouTube, the drawings of Davina Semo, the music of Greg Landau, and the soulful voice of Shanghai novelist, Mian Mian.
The haudenschildGarage was founded by Director Eloisa Haudenschild in 2003 as a 21st century cultural search engine, pursuant of interesting work wherever it occurs and in whatever form it takes. The haudenschildGarage wishes to transcend the 19th century salon and the 20th century alternative art space. It is a home away from home to all seeking to engage in cultural experimentation, place and conversation. It routinely presents symposia, lectures, and film screenings to the public. Whether international projects, dialogs or commissions, the haudenschildGarage has a willingness to collaborate with like-minded institutions and artists.
The haudenschildGarage, Spare Parts Projects, conceptualized, commissioned and produced by Eloisa Haudenschild and Steve Fagin, is a three-year cycle that encourages the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. Our current cycle of projects includes Decolonizing Architecture in Palestine/Israel, A Crime Has Many Stories in Buenos Aires, Argentina and The Last Book in Los Angeles, US.
The MAK Center is located at the Schindler House, 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood. Parking is available at the public structure at the northeast corner of Kings Road and Santa Monica Blvd. Admission to this event is free, rsvp required.
For further information on the event, project and participants, visit www.haudenschildgarage.com or email Monica Jovanovich, Managing Director of the haudenschildGarage, monica@haudenschildgarage.com.
