Music
Johanna Beyer, Charles Ives & Pamela Z
Performance
Mia Barcia-Colombo, Brandon Encinas, Artem Fominyx & Cassia Streb
Mail Art
about the art
It’s a Summer Remix! This August we’re remixing past MFYI releases to feature artistic ruminations on the personal and public geography of Southern California.
This month’s film brings you inside an historic Craftsman home in Pasadena, California: the Gamble House—a home designed by Greene and Greene with awe-inspiring attention to detail and construction. The maverick architectural firm created the residence as a home for the Gamble family. In this video, the Gamble House is home to string quartets composed by three American mavericks in their own rights—Johanna Beyer, Charles Ives, and Pamela Z. Through the music’s sound and the Gamble House's space, we can reflect on two deeply formative and contested American ideals: innovation and home.
Justin N. Kim is also fascinated with space, but rather than specific buildings, his mail art contemplates the interconnectedness of geographical spaces from a wide view. Justin explores how individual components form a whole by painting maps of familiar places, revealing the intersections and influences of human-made systems. His mail art, Garfield Park, reflects on the context of this public space, intimately connected to local streets and buildings, and a special place where he and his wife would often walk.