WHEN WE GATHER: DISCUSSION WITH MIRA HENRY AND MATTHEW AU

Mira Henry and Matthew Au of Current Interests, an LA-based architectural design studio, will discuss their recent book, Gathering: Ongoing Work by Current Interests. Presented in conjunction with J. Yolande Daniels: To A Future Space -Time, this talk will reflect on Current Interests’s past projects and explore the historical, archaeological, and material layers of the built environment.

For this event Henry and Au will share a collection of close readings of existing buildings and infrastructure in the Leimert Park and Jefferson Park neighborhoods. The focus will be on a set of micro histories that surround two local Paul R Williams buildings – one a bank, and the other a church. Delivered as a visual narrative, this performance-based talk offers informal methods for attending to place and collecting stories within the context of the everyday.