SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15-SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23 - My Father's Side of Home.
Carmen Argote shares one result of her inhabitation & investigation of Mansion Magnolia, a neoclassical style mansion in Guadalajara, Mexico that belongs to her family. Installation with a public program curated by Lorena Peña Brito (seel below). Nov 14 12-6PM; Opening reception: Sat Nov 15, 7-10PM. Closed Sunday. Gallery Hours Nov 17-22 12-7:30PM, Nov 22:16 hr sleepover.
MY HOME ELECTRICAL, curated by Lorena Peña Brito in support of My Father's Side of Home
Evening Screenings: Nov 17 - Nov 22, all screenings start at 6pm
MON NOV 17 Arturo Ripstein, LA TIA ALEJANDRA (1 hr. 27 minutes, 1979) Spanish/no subtitles. For a family with three children, the trauma begins with the arrival of the husband's elderly aunt into their home. The aunt, a women with a haunting aura and unpredictable humor, who increasingly secludes herself for extended periods of solitude within the family's home, becomes the suspect of the family's recent stream of misfortunes.
TUE NOV 18 George Melly, THE SECRET LIFE OF EDWARD JAMES (55 minutes, 1975) George Melly’s 1975 documentary charts James’ eccentric life from his early days at West Dean in West Sussex to his lifelong friendships with Salvador Dali, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington, and finally to Xilitla, his adopted home for the last forty years of his life.
WED NOV 19 Suprise Screening, TBD. Screening a surprise film that will connect with the content of the exhibition and elaborate on the the ideas brought about through the experience of Inhabiting Mansion Magnolias. Discussion to follow.
THU NOV 20 Lucia Small, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS (84 minutes, 2002) When Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers with a film about his precarious career and thorny private life. At 31, Small, founder of internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a rising star. At 61, he can barely pay his bills. The artist explores the tension between her father’s obligations to family and his life-long passion to “save the world" through architecture.
FRI NOV 21 Home movies from Mansion Magnolia, A collection of Home Movies shot by Carmen Argote while at Mansion Magnolia in Guadalajara, MX
SAT NOV 22 16 Hour Experience (7PM): Join the artist in a range of hands-on activities, storytelling, card readings and a prolonged collective inhabiting of the gallery after-hours. Once started, the doors will shut and participants will commit to a durational interaction as a collective and develop through time a new understanding of the space, each other, and the work through the act of collective inhabiting. A chance to realize the fantasy/fear of being "locked" in the museum after closing time!
Friday, November 21, 2014 at 10:19AM ;)
SAT NOV 22 16 Hour Experience (7PM): Join Carmen Argote in storytelling, card readings and a prolonged collective inhabiting of the gallery after-hours. Once started, the doors will shut and participants will commit to a durational interaction as a collective and develop through a new understanding of the space, each other, and the work through the act of collective inhabiting. A chance to realize the fantasy/fear of being "locked" in the museum after closing time! Contact HRLA for more info! 
MON NOV 24 Decolonizing the White Box II: a panel discussion with Ricardo Abreu Bracho, Carolyn Castaño, and Amitis Motevalli. A follow up to last month's community gathering initiating conversation about structural racism in and around the art world, and exploration practices of a range of artists who inspire, make room, intervene and open up. 
TUE NOV 25 WHITE MAGIC + MATTHEW DAVID'S MINDFLIGHT + MOOMAW ∆ 8PM, 7$. Music, projection, experience.;)
