Unity Study
Hammer Museum, Courtyard
Unity Study is a collaboration between Rebecca Bruno, Lynn Ellen Bathke, Mak Kern, and Ben Ross, that meditates on the ways seemingly disparate artistic mediums come together. The artists will collectively explore formal and conversational aspects of their work through live encounter and archive. The site becomes a creative laboratory, dance space, drawing studio, artist retreat, and virtual amalgamation of past and present realities, walking the line between intimate private exploration and public presentation with both sensitivity and generosity.
During a period of one to two months, a weekly encounter emerges with the intent to progress and merge a collaborative relationship between artists, materials, sound, sculpture, mark-making, and movement. Reflecting the evolution of these transitory happenings are the traces of dance practice on large sheets of paper, subtle marks describing an embodied experience, a photo series marking time, the resonance of vibrating modern metal sound sculptures, and gesture drawings created live during improvisational movement sessions. These elements are gathered in an online format like a blog, disappear and reappear on site each week and are captured and reinterpreted in an interactive layer that allows viewers to experience past echoes of the project in virtual reality.
Unity Study is a performance installation occurring in weekly sessions that investigates how objects, sound, bodies, and the space they inhabit coalesce to create experience and thereafter, how memories of the experience are physically stored and accessed.
In Real Life: Studio provides a glimpse into the working processes of artists. Throughout the fall a select group of artists utilizes spaces in the museum to convene and rehearse new material, including theater, dance, music, and performance. While some artists and collectives will simply discuss or workshop material, others will produce a new project from rehearsal to final performance.
Event Dates: Nov. 2, 9, 17 & Dec. 1, 7, 14, 11 a.m.—6 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Courtyard
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.