Mark Allen Seminar and lecture 2/13

Seminar description

In place of studio visits I'd like to facilitate a conversation with
grad students who are interested in starting venues, curatorial
projects, event series, public art projects and so forth. My
experience of grad school was that most of the emphasis was on making
work, and much less on what I would call context making - where does
the work go after the studio, and how does that construct the meaning
of the work. I'd like to ask each participant to do a short
presentation (5 minutes or less) about their work as related to the
topic as an intro and then we can have a discussion. 10 students
maximum.

Mark Allen + Machine Bio

Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator based in Los Angeles. He
is the founder and executive director of Machine Project, a non-profit
performance and installation space investigating art, technology,
natural history, science, music, literature, and food in an informal
storefront in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Machine
Project also operates as a loose confederacy of artists producing
shows at locations ranging from beaches to museums to parking lots.
Under his direction Machine has produced shows with the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, and the Walker Museum in
Minneapolis. He has produced over 500 events in Los Angeles at the
Machine Project storefront space, and recently concluded a year long
artist residency addressing topics of public engagement at the Hammer
Museum.