Institute for Figuring: Workshop creating sea creatures from plastic trash Aug 3, LA
INSTITUTE FOR FIGURING
August 3, 2013
Join us in crocheting plastic at our Silurian Monsters Workshop
This Saturday, August 3, help construct a giant Silurian sea organism out of discarded plastic rubbish. Come and be part of an evolutionary art-work spearheaded by Science + Art Resident Christine Wertheim. You will learn how to apply the traditional craft of crochet to contemporary cast-offs.
All makers will be credited in the resulting work and exhibition.
We invite you to bring in your favorite plastic rubbish – particularly discarded airline earphones and headsets.
Please Join Us: Saturday, August 3 from 2:00 – 6:00pm @ the IFF.
990 N. Hill St. #180
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.222.2111
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The IFF’s 2013 Science and Art Residency extends the Institute’s interest in hands-on practices inspired by scientific themes by hosting thinker-makers who work at the boundary of the theoretical and material. During summer and fall, our two residents – Christine Wertheim and Jake Dotson – will take over the Institute to use it as a studio laboratory and space for public engagement. This year’s theme, Being Formed, focuses around the question of how form arises in the natural world, a subject that has inspired philosophers and scientists from Aristotle and Kant to Darwin and Einstein.