Seminar 2: The Impetus Toward Utopia: Manifesting Personal Space
| Hosted by: | Mario Lara | |
| Date: | Sunday May 18, 2003 / 4:00 - 6:30 pm | |
| Location: | A pot-luck picnic near the botanical gardens in Balboa Park. | |
| Public Address Attendees: | Robin Brailsford, Nina Karavasiles, Mario Lara, Aida Mancillas, Larry Herzog, Diana Gage, Ellen Phillips, Mary Lynn Dominguez, and Anne Mudge. | |
| Creative Assignment: | Transform both sides of the blank slotted Merz-Card with a visual interpretation of your personal utopia. The slotted card will be used to assemble a Merz-Tower at the picnic (see images below). The individual Merz-Cards are displayed in the Merz-Card Gallery. | |
| Event Photos and Merz-Card Gallery: |  |
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| Reading Assignment #1: |
In an early stage of his Merz art Schwitters decided to extend his newly won insights into sculpture proper: Now I am doing Merz plastics [sculptures], Pleasure Gallows, and Cult-Pump. |
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| Reading Assignment #2: |
The scruffy curiosa bordering the American highway includes such wonders as reptile gardens, instant pioneer villages, agate shacks, zoos and freak shows-glaringly announced by fluorescent billboards and pulsating neon. |
