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October 14, 2005
not a corn field-- what's not to like?
THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS @ 6am-8pm
Not A Cornfield Public Hours
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14 @ 7:30pm
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield - Salon
"Beyond Sustainability"
Permaculture expert Larry Santoyo discusses Not A Cornfield's ecological principles and design tools
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 @ 3-7pm
Sundays @ Not A Cornfield
"Struggle for the Cornfield: The real story of how a community coalition won 32 acres of public space in downtown LA"
Drum Circle + Story Series finale featuring Lewis MacAdams
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.
"Sundays @ Not A Cornfield" brings people together into a hand-planted "eye" within the mechanically planted cornfield in order to work, talk and make music together, thereby bringing a communal energy to the project and allowing the handmade versus mechanically-made edge to hum.
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
Not A Cornfield
1201 North Spring Street
Phone: 323.226.1158
Always Free to the Public, Handicapped Accessible
Free Parking
DIRECTIONS (NORTHGATE): From the intersection of North Spring and College (Gold Line - Chinatown stop) take North Spring north 2 blocks to the northern end of the project site. The entrance is on the left, co-located at 1799 Baker Street.
Posted by mechanicaljelly at October 14, 2005 09:20 AM
Comments
Reminds me of that Mel Chin piece "Revival Fields" in Minnesota back in the day.
Did anyone go to any of these events? I don't really understand the name, "Not a Cornfield". Is "Cornfield" a word or is she playing a game of claiming ownership through naming, and simultaneously stripping it of meaning? Or is "Cornfield" the name given by the LA Historic State Park? Weird. I'm going to go down and check it out.
Posted by: elizabeth at October 22, 2005 03:50 PM
What's not to like...is the fact that the Annenberg foundation is funding the project, and Bon happens to be on the board of directos at the Foundation. I'm glad that she's using her position to do good things for art, but it seems a bit suspect. If such behavior occured in another business environment (say, oh, with Haliburton) people would be all up in arms. It's not to say that I wouldn't happily give my own art project a million dollar grant if I had the opportunity...
Posted by: pierre at November 5, 2005 03:32 PM
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