River Sessions #7: Mile 24 | Metabolic Studio

Transforming 51 miles of the LA River/ Paayme Paxaayt with ART, NATURE and COMMUNITY.Each month we visit new sites along the River with artists, Indigenous Culture Bearers and local experts: Look for surprises around the bend!In 2023, our first year of River Sessions, we visited sites along the River in the spirit of Hyonaayn’ar -- a Tongva word that means both teacher and student. We listened to and learned creative tactics from many artists and indigenous cultural practitioners who work regeneratively with their communities and the River. What emerged is that the River is trying to heal herself --and our communities need healing too.Understanding and expressing emotions is a pathway to healing. Art can help us deepen our understanding of the emotional impact that the channelized River has upon us. Towards the goal of healing ourselves and the River, we will discover this year how art can connect us to our feelings. We will take time on our River Sessions for creative field research guied by poets, artists, and indigenous cultural practioners.

LA River Arts

Explore art, culture, and place along the LA River in a monthly series of guided walks where the River is the lead artist and teacher.

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River Sessions

River Sessions are guided by Indigenous Culture Bearers, artists, creative ecologists, historians, and curators. Each session begins at a new  mile of Paayme Paxaayt (aka theLA River) offering a unique experience  following and learning from the River.

LA River Public Art Project | <a href="https://www.LARiverPublicArtProject.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.LARiverPublicArtProject.org</a>Join LA River Public Art Project to experience art, culture, and place along the 51 miles of the LA River. In the spirit of Hyonaayn’ar--a Tongva word that means both teacher and student--participants will learn about the River’s ephemeral histories and imagine it’s ecological futures, all while exploring the diverse cultural responses to the water. Each month we’ll meander a little further down the River with artists, Indigenous Culture Bearers and local experts: beginning in January at the River’s sources in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains, and concluding in December at the River&#x27;s end in Long Beach. Watch for surprises around the bend!<h1>MILE 24: Metabolic Studio</h1>July 8th, 2023, 6pm-8pm July 8th from 6-8pm is an exclusive deep dive behind the scenes of the new work in progress by the incredible artistic force that is at Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio!Join us for a twilight tour of Bending the River, an infrastructure artwork by Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio. This project reimagines how we view our LA River watershed and the abundance of resources that are all around us.They are diverting a small amount of wastewater from the Los Angeles River, lifting it, cleansing it, and spreading it to a network of public parks, (its former floodplain). In a time of climate change, devastating wildfires, continuous drought and scarce resources, Metabolic Studio’s mission is: “Artists Need To Create On The Same Scale That Society Has The Capacity To Destroy”. This is a co-creative iterative practice that involves both activation and observation as well as community building.This River Session will include: <ul><li>A visit to the River Lab at Metabolic Studio</li><li>A walk over the bridges for a birds eye view of the BTR project currently under construction</li><li>A visit to the Moon and the living artwork Undevelopment 1</li><li>Light refreshments !</li></ul>Parasols featuring commissioned art by Jess Gudiel are for sale at event registration ($65) and available at the event: $75eaEvent time: 6pm - 8pm_﻿_________________________I wish you wouldwalk with me heremore often—--Lewis MacAdams, The River: Book One

Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.

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