October 15, 2009 at hG
Reading and conversation
Washington Cucurto and Maria Gomez with Teddy Cruz, Juli Carson, Steve Fagin, Eloisa Haudenschild, Jennifer Flores-Sternad, and Monica Jovanovich-Kelley
Spare Parts
artists-in-residence: Washington Cucurto and Maria Gomez
October 14 – 16, 2009 at hG
Commission: Washington Cucurto short story, El Hijo
Writer and literary collective, Eloisa Cartonera; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator at LACMA writes on The Last Book
April 24, 2009, published on the LACMA Blog about the hG, Spare Parts project The Last Book
I find myself thinking of artist Steve Fagin’s amalgam of criticism, fiction, visual arts, and numerous other disciplines as a productive model for a contemporary art curator working within an encyclopedic museum. I’ve been in discussion with Fagin ever [...]
hG text by Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center Director, on The Last Book
“…Reading aloud to a group of people is an intimate act, which is why readings are among my favorite activities at the Schindler House. The landmark modernist House & Studio (1921-22) was designed for precisely such kinds of events and has…”
hG text by Mian Mian on her Last Book Performance
“…When I first read about the idea of Last Book project and the project invited me to be the reader…I was doing a concert at a place UFOs had once appeared…the light was too bright so I had to wear sunglasses all the time…I liked the…”
Spare Parts: The Last Book
2008 – present
April 26, 2009 performance, Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles
Steve Fagin created a one-of-a-kind book including text, drawings, moving images and sounds
