[sort of] OPEN HOUSE was part of the ongoing housing research and design project The Machine is Broken!. Guillermo Acosta, Alejandra Avalos, and Alan Ríos explored new ways of understanding and creating private space. For this event they explored the implications social media has on the physical and virtual spaces we inhabit by a series of installations. How can people experience spaces when they are physically somewhere but virtually elsewhere?

To celebrate the restoration and renovation of these three historically significant houses previously unavailable to the public the MAK Center and our generous homeowners invited guests to a champagne reception and unique retail experience, created by the design collective Extended Family Projects:

A screening and discussion of Walt & El Grupo as part of How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney.

In the spirit of Oswald de Andrade’s landmark 1928 provocation, the Manifesto Antropófagio, this program features a works of artists, dating from the 1950s up to today, that engage in found footage filmmaking, a subaltern practice of decolonization and critique through the collage of appropriated images and audio.

A panel discussion and launch of the Art Los Angeles Reader’s fourth issue: a special collaboration with Mexico City’s Terremoto in honor of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.

Panel discussion with Fabián Cereijido, Jesse Lerner, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, and Angela Vergara, moderated by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell to celebrate the book launch of How To Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney

Celebrating Supporters of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture co-hosted with THIS X THAT featuring an installation by artist Paul Davies

Reception, Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion with Presentations, and Book Launch with Annie Chu, Joe Day, Tom Gunning, Julia Koerner, Jimenez Lai, Priscilla Fraser, and Stephen Phillips

A solo exhibition of work by Mandla Reuter at the Schindler House

A group exhibition curated by Mandla Reuter at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House