Schindler House
Companion Tours
The Schindler House Companion Tours are a series of interpretive audio tours by artists, architects, and writers. The audio projects challenge the status of the house tour as a mode of institutional address and authoritative voice by commissioning contemporary practitioners working in text, choreography, sound, and storytelling to offer new readings of the Schindler House. Visitors are invited to move, observe, and perceive the house through instructional exercises, fictional meanderings, and guided journeys.
Where is the public seating at the Schindler House? Erik Benjamin’s To Sit Is To Time Travel responds to a curious absence to present day visitors: seating.
Anthony Carfello’s Your Project Proposal considers some elusive details of exhibition making at the Schindler House, the programming role of the MAK Center, and a few of the specific sites at 835 North Kings Road.
SLOW DANCE X SCHINDLER HOUSE is for two people at once. One participant should listen to Track 1, and the other to Track 2. Choose someone you feel comfortable with—though this could be a stranger—and make sure to press "play" at the same time.
Rosten Woo’s There are two sides to everything, including life explores the history of the Schindler House through the narrative writings of its earliest occupants.
How To Listen
IN-PERSON
Bring your headphones or borrow a listening set at the Schindler House.
ITINERANTLY
The audio tours are also available online for driving, walking and other itinerant passages.
About the Contributors
ERIK BENJAMINS
Erik Benjamins is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. His work takes cues from design, performance and poetry to celebrate the potential for embodied knowledge, particularly in domestic settings. He recently co-curated “Built In”, a sprawling, site-specific group exhibition at the Neutra VDL House.
ANTHONY CARFELLO
Anthony Carfello is an editor, writer, and exhibition maker. He is an instructor for Temple University’s Los Angeles program and the former Deputy Director of the MAK Center.
VIRGINIA / MATS SWENSON
Virginia / Mats Swenson is a performance artist, writer, print maker and baker. Their work is often experimental, and pushes the reflexivity of self-perception to the absurd or comical, producing excessive scenes and objects. They grew up in Seattle, WA and graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2019 with a BA in English. They now live in Los Angeles.
ROSTEN WOO
Rosten Woo is a designer, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. He produces civic-scale artworks and works as a collaborator and consultant to a variety of grassroots and non-profit organizations. His book, "Street Value," about race and retail urban development, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010.
Schindler House Companion Tours were recorded and produced with support from Jake Miles and dublab.