FA24, DS 2GA Studio
Instuctor: Devyn Weiser
Project
A 100,000 square foot performance venue located in the Pico Union neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The brief is specific to LA Dance Project, a contemporary dance company with a direction that emphasizes experimentation and collaboration. They are currently based in downtown LA.
This concept draws out publicly the relationships between performance, viewing and staging. The aim of this is to create a theatre-going experience that feels contemporary and in line with the values of LA Dance Project. Ideas of impermanence and phasing also inform the architecture, accommodation scenarios of change.
The whole site is turned into flexible performance space, where stagings can be set up anywhere. While considerate and specific to LA Dance Project’s brief, the proposal is designed intentionally with a level of indeterminacy. Spaces are designed for reconfiguration, open for multiple uses, stagings or constructions. Private programming, such as rehearsal spaces and administrative offices are housed inside permanent volumes. Public spaces exist around these, in reprogrammable and less permanent spaces.
3D Printed pleated TPU study models. Developed in conjuction with the Pleats Please graduate Visual Studies course cotaught with David Eskenazi. Folded sheets of TPU are buttoned together, following pleated fabric logic from fashion. Work featured in d.esk’s 2024 Kent CAED exhibition and Flash Art Volumes 002: Crisis Formalism.
