Villa Aurora Events Archive
November 2014
Welcoming Reception
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
Participants
Kerstin Cmelka will present her ongoing work „Microdramas“. “Microdramas” are dramatic fragments, a series of live performances, performance videos, photos and artist’s books, in which Cmelka creates a process of negotiation and collaboration, to which she invites artist friends acting as amateur performers as well as professional actors, musicians and friends from the cultural scene.
Katrin Mayer's works deal with the intersection of art, research, architecture, display and decor. She interweaves visual textures and surfaces with site specific spatial and historical contexts, often related to gender policy issues.
At Villla Aurora she will present her latest works for Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Ludlow38, New York.
In her work for Kunsthalle Bielefeld Mayer focuses on Philip Johnson's (architect of Kunsthalle Bielefeld) collaboration with the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers, who ended up teaching at Black Mountain College.
The pieces created for Ludlow38 explore the Lower East Side garment district between 1900-1915, an era when significant changes in the political role of working women took place.
For more information about her work visit her website:
www.katrinmayer.net
“I am particularly interested in the relationship established between the line, or yarn with the body, as a unit of measurement, which is defined in relation to the scale of the human body and the spatial environment around it. The idea of a string tied around the fingers serving as a mnemonic device. As well as the relationship of the body with built space using an element that develops within it being manipulated and deployed. This device can be seen as a rope, which through its successive knots and displacement defines surfaces which in turn define volume.”
