Marta Fuetterer / Group II, Apr 96 - Sept 96

FINAL PROJECTS

9/17/96 to 9/30/96

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

The residents joined with local colleagues to present an evening of festivities for the Final Projects exhibition entitled "Multi-Media Celebration." In the tradition of "happenings," this art event encompassed a range of simultaneous activities. In Gilbert Bretterbauer's house, poet Benjamin Weissman read from his work and artist Christiana Glidden created a light sculpture. Videos, slides and Super-8 films were continuously projected on screens hung from the roof of the Schindler House. Andrea Lenardin and food stylist Alison Attenborough created a buffet and music was provided by DJs Marnie Castor and Josh Berman.

Architect Marta Fuetterer interacted with Schindler's architecture by covering the original Schindler-designed furniture in the architect's studio with sheets, creating a newly-modulated space with Schindler's own means. In her piece, "The Golden Absence," she also inflected the space with light, rebuilding lamps to Schindler's original design. Covered furniture evoked a variety of associations -- the impulse to cleanliness, the departure of inhabitants, and temporary displacement for painting or remodeling. Fuetterer drew attention to the emotional resonance of the space with her subtle interventions.