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The Stephanie Taylor Kong Boos

Fri, 21.10.2016–Sun, 08.01.2017

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

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The Stephanie Taylor Kong Boos

Fri, 21.10.2016–Sun, 08.01.2017

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

The Stephanie Taylor Kong Boos—“song book,” with first and last letters rearranged—is an installation of sculpture, print works, and music throughout the landmark Schindler House on Kings Road that illustrates and expands the narratives from six songs written by artist Stephanie Taylor between 2010 and 2014.
 
Taylor writes music based on sound sequences she finds in sentences. Dividing all sounds into A, E, I, O and U, she creates melodies she finds within selected phrases. All of her work has rhyming as its starting point; connections are thereby made between things that sound the same. Her recorded songs are included as elements of her visual installations. For example, her 2002 sculpture, Bass, is a fish made of brass that takes its material from its name, and treats the connection as inevitable. Her 2007 sculpture, Hopper, is a rabbit cast in bronze and plated in copper. Using sound, Taylor makes a connection between Hopper and copper, Bass and brass. Form and function merge in rhyme. She uses this tongue-in-cheek conceptual strategy to make poetry from random strings of sounds, highlighting questions of meaning in and of language.
 
Kong Boos at the Schindler House will then take six of Taylor's songs and their associated character-based installations, and intermingle them, swapping characters and locations—a street vendor, a going-away-party, an Oil Man—and shifting plots throughout the historic property. As a whole, the exhibition features tales meandering from Boston to Rome to London, across the English Channel, to Texas and then to Los Angeles. Songs to be included are: Pork Shank Stew, Goodbye Song, Rosángela, Swam Sea Span, Piston Toggle, and Mommy! The songs (as audio elements within the installation) will play one at a time throughout. Sculpture, photographs, and screen prints accompany each plot.
 
Placing Taylor's works into the narrative-laden, architectural context of the modernist Schindler House presents the opportunity to add new layers to the experience of her work. Part of the significance of the House comes from the decades worth of stories amassed by its numerous and engaging residents. A presentation of Taylor's story-generating practice in a loaded environment as such provides her work with opportunities beyond the capacity of white-wall museum viewing environments.

Artist Lincoln Tobier designed the accompanying publication of illustrations and sheet music, published by the MAK Center (2016). Resting on a piano in the Pauline Schindler Studio for the length of the exhibition, visitors will be invited to play and sing from the Kong Boos.


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