Stephan Lugbauer / Group XXIX, Oct 09- Mar 10

FINAL PROJECTS XXIX

3/12/10 to 3/15/10

Pearl M. Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1936), 1137 S. Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Stephan Lugbauer’s project had two parts taking place simultaneously, “The Grand Mackey Apartment House Guided Tour” and “A Giant Flashback.” In the first part, two actors accompanied by a cameraman and sound engineer played tour guides and ran tours every 15 minutes, “explaining” the building and its history. In "A Giant Flashback," a casting director sat in the office space and auditioned real Los Angeles actors. The audition was for the Mackey movie, with multiple scripts that intermixed material taken from biographies of former scholar/residents, as well as the recollections of popular TV-series/movies, artist talks and books. This multiple layering—the chaotic accumulation of events and information—was the project’s central theme.