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Artbound Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Special: AgH20
Fri, Oct 11, 2013
In this episode, Artbound focuses on the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio. The Optics Division is on a quest for the perfect indexical image, an image not just of the valley but made from the valley. The team has been working on all aspects of production including the camera(s), the film stock, the developers and fixatives, all sourced from the dry lake bed. Bon and The Optics Division's tools include the "Liminal Camera," a portable camera and darkroom housed in a shipping container. The team can produce large black and white images matching the size of the container itself in a few hours. The special explores other tools that have been developed by the Optics Division including the "Silo Camera" located in a one hundred foot silo on the edge of the Owens Dry Lake Bed and Mine Camera. The rig is being used to see the mine shaft, unused for nearly 100 years, that provided the silver for the pioneering film industry.
Episode 2
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles
Thu, Aug 8, 2013
This episode of Artbound, Songs in the Key of L.A. is a multi-platform collaboration between the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Public Library, and USC professor Josh Kun that brings to life the Library's extraordinary Southern California Sheet Music Collection. Five L.A. artists were invited to pick some sheet music, study it, and then interpret it in any style of their choosing. The finished products are now available for free download from the website of the Los Angeles Public Library, and Artbound produced short documentaries on the process.
Episode 3
Chicano Batman
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
This episode of Artbound features the fun lovin' music from East L.A. band Chicano Batman.
Episode 4
Episode #3.4
Thu, Nov 7, 2013
This episode of Artbound features Paul Turounet, a photographer whose site-specific photographic portraits explore the various migrant peoples found traveling along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Next we go to on a visit to the Watts Towers to catch up on how scientists and community activists are seeking to preserve the Towers against the elements. Artbound reflects on Gary Baseman's mid-career retrospective "The Door is Always Open", which examines a long and varied career while focusing on his family and the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Then, Artbound the travels to the High Desert where visual artist Diane Best personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region. Also, featuring a live studio performance by indie band Best Coast.
Episode 5
Episode #3.5
Sat, Nov 2, 2013
In this episode Artbound provides an exclusive look at the avant-garde opera, "Invisible Cities." Then, Artbound explores Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" art project, which has helped individuals accept and even embrace their scars. In East L.A., Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" brings site-specific performances to the East LA Civic Center for a unique performance. At Bootsy Bellows, a nightclub on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, Jeff Speetjens performs with a variety of marionettes from the stage to the dance floor. Photographer Candacy Taylor followed her interest in the social dynamics of traditional female work roles to Twentynine Palms and never looked back. Salons and diners are her subjects of choice. Then travel into the aural world of Alison O' Daniel. Using a collaborative, cross-platform process, artist Alison O'Daniel makes her strange, fascinating, and lyrical work in interdependent video, sculpture, and sound. Also featuring a live studio performance by the indie folk band Run River North.
Episode 6
Special: Invisible Cities
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
An hour-long documentary on the making-of Invisible Cities, an opera created for headphones performed in the public space of Los Angeles Union Station in the fall of 2013.
