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Materializing the Immaterial
5/24/12---Materializing the Immaterial. A discussion between T. Kelly
Mason, Tyler Cassity, and George Baker on funerary objects and practices
in early 21st-century Los Angeles and the relationship of these to
private and collective ideas of memory, space, and the expression of
desire. L.A.-based artist Mason?s current project, inspired by the
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, was commissioned by the
Hammer as a special project for the museum's courtyard. Cassity is a
renowned cemetarian, redefining how Americans handle death at his
Hollywood Forever cemetery as well other final resting places throughout
California. Baker is an associate professor of art history at UCLA, and
his newest book, Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography,
will be published in 2012. In conjunction with T. Kelly Mason's light
box installation project. (Run Time 1 hour, 23 min.)
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