MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles
January 25th - February 20, 2000
Clyde Chace Studio: Location Proposal #2, Shot 14
Marilyn Chace Studio: Location Proposal #2, Shot 4
Rudolf Schindler Studio: Location Proposal #2: Shot 5, Giant Rock, March 1999
Location Proposal #2: Shot 3, Angelino Heights, April 1998
Pauline Schindler Studio: Location Proposal #2, Shot 17
Exhibition wall text
Throughout her career, Los Angeles-based artist Cindy Bernard has addressed issues of memory and perception. With her current work, the "Location Proposal" series, Bernard examines how our experience of landscape and the built environment is coded by culture.
The computer-modeled forest of "Location Proposal #2" is based on the "Muir Woods" sequence of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film "Vertigo." Through rear screen projection, the iconic fictionalized space of the woods is superimposed over the mythologized, architectural space of the Schindler House.
Bernard states "My interest in the Schindler House as a site for this work stems from Schindler's utopian social vision as realized in the division of rooms and articulations of indoor/outdoor relationships. The heightened acuity to the construction of fictionalized space that I desire to achieve is, I believe, related to the awareness of open space and enclosure, that Schindler was interested in achieving at Kings Road."
images from space, climate, light, mood, a one evening performance in collaboration with Gabie Strong, David Patton and Ron Russell, February 16, 2000
Clyde Chace Studio: space, climate, light, mood
Marilyn Chace Studio: space, climate, light, mood
Pauline Schindler Studio: space, climate, light, mood
space, climate, light, mood took as its point of departure R.M. Schindler's experience of camping in Yosemite and the influence of that experience on the architecture of his residence at King's Road. The projections and sound were designed to accentuate displacements between color and memory, indoors and outdoors and live and mixed sound.