For six years, Fritz Haeg opened his Los Angeles home to ideas and art through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles framed and affected by his unique house which included a subterranean cave, a geodesic dome, and a series of garden spaces. This special artists book documents the Sundown Salon events and also shares participants reflections on the idea of salons and the nature of viewing and making art communally and for a domestic space. "The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive" is both a book and an exhibition: It is printed as one long accordian fold paper. The text can be flipped through and read like a book, and the pictures can be unfurled to a 140 foot long art piece. The book has been conceived by Fritz in collaboration with Evil Twin Publications' Stacy Wakefield. Released in June 2009 in a limited edition of 500 copies, each copy features a hand-screened cover in five different configurations by a different artist.

Publication date: 2009

Retail price: $150

Size: 8.5" x 8.5"

Pages: 380 (one 140 foot long accordion folded sheet)

ISBN: 978-0-9763355-1-1

Orders: Evil Twin Publications / stacy@eviltwinpublications.com

 

On periodic Sunday afternoons the geodesic dome on Sundown Drive became a gathering place for an extended community of friends from Los Angeles and beyond known as Sundown Salon. It was a free exchange of ideas and art through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles framed and affected by the unique house and gardens which included a subterranean cave-like space, a geodesic dome on top, surrounded by a series of outdoor garden spaces. The 'piece' or 'project' of the salon began with the preparation for the event, the meetings, the planning and continued as a gathering of people, exchanging ideas, all in the context of a day of focused activity, experimenting, sharing. The Salons provided an alternative model to the isolated solitary creator in the pure hermetic white box. Instead, the salon celebrated the truly engaged human, responding to their time, environment, community, friends, neighbors, weather, history, place.

After almost 6 years, 30 events and hundreds of participants they grew increasingly elaborate. The network of friends expanded exponentially with each gathering. Each salon was catalyzed by a friend with an idea, an inspiration. Knitting, boys, a dance, deliveries, a meeting, animals, haircutting, fashion, political ennui and it grew from there. Participants included My Barbarian, Pipilott Rist, Knitknit, Trinie Dalton, Los Super Elegantes, K48, Bedroom Walls, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Deadlee, Anna Sew Hoy, D'Argento, Amy Adler, Jeff Ono, Yoshua Okon, Dean Sameshima, Alice Konitz, Graft, Pae White, Bon & Ging, Jeff Burton, Feral Childe, Alexis Rochas, Ponce de Leon, Bordermates, Lesbians to the Rescue (LTTR), Robbinschilds, Slava Mogutin, Eve Fowler, Katie Grinnan, Eileen Myles, Liz Larner, Chris Abani and Janfamily among many others. Sundown Salon also staged similar events at the Schindler House in West Hollywood in collaboration with the MAK Center.

A project by Fritz Haeg

Publisher: Stacy Wakefield, Evil Twin Publications

Editors: Fritz Haeg & Stacy Wakefield

Copy Editors: Svetlana Kitto & Stacy Wakefield

Designers: Fritz Haeg & Stacy Wakefield

Research & Assistance: Matthew Au, Katie Bachler, Krystal Chang, Fiona Ryan & Sarah Skaggs

Descriptions of much of the work presented at the salons is featured along with essays and stories by Chris Abani, Amy Adler, Zandra Ahl, Mark Allen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Justin Beal, Kelly Besser, Krystal Chang, Kelly Coats, Sara Daleiden, Trinie Dalton, Julie Deamer, Joseph del Pesco, Ken Ehrlich, Malik Gaines, Adam Goldman, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Asdis sif Gunnarsdottir, Fritz Haeg, Skylar Haskard, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Anna Sew Hoy, Janfamily, Gabriela Jauregui, Konstantin Kakanias, Jennifer Krasinski, Matty Lee, Kimberly Meyer, Eileen Myles, Francois Perrin, Emily Roysdon, Alex Segade, Linda Taalman & Alan Koch, Melissa Thorne, Matias Viegener, Veronica Wiman, Alice Wu.

These written accounts are accompanied by photographs by Amy Adler, Mark Allen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Trix Barmettler, Eden Batki, Justin Beal, Bedroom Walls, Tibora Girczyc Blum, Bordermates, Jeff Burton, Kelly Coats, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Laura Cooper, Krysten Cunningham, David Dodge, Lecia Dole Recio, Ken Ehrlich, Courtney Fink, Eve Fowler, Sam Gordon, Sara Grady, Amy Graves, Fritz Haeg, Karl Haendel, Marc Herbst, Jen Hofer, Susanna Howe, Scott Hug, K48, Peter Kirby, Lauren Lavitt, Sharon Levy, Janfamily, Jeaneen Lund, Marie Jan Lund, The MAK Center, Kelly Marie Martin, Alan Marx, Alex May, Giles Miller, Slava Mogutin, My Barbarian, Piper Olf, Eugene Ong, Camilo Ontiveros, Renato Ornelas, PS, Iana Quesnell, Emily Roysdon, Dean Sameshima, Shannon Shelly, Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, A.L. Steiner, Eli Sudbrack, Elizabeth Tobias, Emile Turner, Kazys Varnelis, Nicolas Wagner, Nina Waisman, Caleb Waldorf, Kate Wall, Ulf Wallin, Michael Wells,Austin Young, Gerald Zugmann.

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