Haunts: CalArts 2019 MFA Exhibition

The School of Art presents Haunts, an exhibition of MFA 19 works from the Art, Photography and Media and Art and Technology programs, on Saturday, Aug. 17 at the historic Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles. The exhibition, held in three venues in the Bendix (JOAN, Track 16 and Ste 534), is curated by Aurora Tang, researcher and program manager at the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

Haunts offers a wide range of conceptual works, from ZZ Krebs’ (Art MFA 19) welded steel lighting piece Chrysalis to Taehee Kim’s (Art MFA 19) immersive sound installation The Butterfly Dream. The pieces hold a mirror to the phantoms—of legacies, desires, identities, relationships—that lie before us and “[cast] light on the ghosts that follow us–individually and collectively, perpetually and imminently.” 

Participating artists include: Santiago Acero, Daniel Andres Alcazar, Nick Angelo, diego barrientos, Beck+Col, Skylar (Mengyuan) Chen, courtney coles, Kira Doutt, Norris L. Duckett III, Philipp Farra, lydon frank, Luke Harnden, Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb, Vanessa Holyoak, Minsu Kang, Hanieh Khatibi, Siheun Kim, Taehee Kim, nick kochornswasdi, ZZ Krebs, Lucas Lacamara, Looksorn, Antoine Midant, Silvi Naçi, Alicia Piller, Yuqing Qiao, Alexander Rafalovich, Ieva Raudsepa, Justin Serulneck, Molly Jo Shea, Bradley Thompson, Lucinda Trask and Kelly Wall.

The exhibition’s opening reception includes performances from the following artists:

• 7 pm: Molly Jo Shea, JOAN
• 7:30 pm: Beck+Col, JOAN
• 8 pm: nick kochornswasdi, Track 16
• 8:15 pm: lydon frank, Ste 534

Many of the participating artists were part of last year’s group exhibition Superflexible, which sprawled across the CalArts campus to explore the idea of “play.”