Theresa Krenn / Group XXV, Oct 07 - Mar 08

AH CA VA BIEN

3/7/08 to 3/9/08

MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A at the Schindler House, 835 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA

Interested in metropolitan transportation and its role in the production of public space, Theresa Krenn and Bernhard Eder investigated the underrepresented bus-system in Los Angeles. For their final project they presented narrative bus maps that told the social and spatial history of the city and its bus system. Krenn and Eder created alternative route-maps of existing bus lines. Each map contained a narrative which was characterized by its location in the city and which mixed historical contents, contemporary reality and fictional narratives. By these means, the architects questioned ordinary perceptions of public transportation issues and their relationship to the present layout of Los Angeles. The project invited the audience to experience a narrated tour through the city searching for public space in Los Angeles. It left the possibility to the voyager to verify existing images of the city in order to re-evaluate urban space. For the exhibition, Krenn and Eder presented a map of their tour as well as the narrative bus-maps. Copies of these maps were available to exhibition visitors and the experience of riding the bus was conveyed by sound mappings the architects made on their own journey through Los Angeles. Krenn and Eder also installed a line of tape that lead from the Schindler House to the bus stop on the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard.