Lauren Bon with Phong Bui

Artist Lauren Bon with Phong Bui, Publisher of the Brooklyn Rail discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality.

Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.

In the RIVER RAIL (Special Issue, 2019):

• MANIFESTO, River Rail
• WORKS IN EXHIBITION, River Rail

Lauren Bon’s Metabolic Studio explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Find out more about Metabolic Studio here.

Phong Bui is the Publisher and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail.

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