Situated where the #llanodelrio inquiry began a decade ago, #OnAllDay 2023 reflects on the mysterious graffiti, “It was not all flowers she had on her mind” discovered on the west interior barn ruin in 2013. Join us in our first-ever public walk of this historic site featuring augmented reality experiences, artists’ responses, and the opportunity to create your own on the Saturday following May Day, 5/6 in Llano, CA.
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Start date: April 6, 2016
End date: April 17, 2016
Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
By Land or By Sea - a program of FVAF 2016 by Micol Hebron Inspired by Mike Davis' City of Quartz, Newman read and recorded the names of neighborhoods built along Lancaster’s Avenue K while inside the silo ruin at the socialist utopian experiment, Llano del Rio. Paired with video she captured during a 2013 dust storm where […]
Start date: September 8, 2018
End date: October 11, 2018
Location: Beatnik Lounge, 61597 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, CA 92252
placekeeping | Public Humanities | storiesandstewardship
Curated by Jillian Sandell and Doug Blanc, Lost & Found asks: Have you ever lost something, or been lost? Have you ever found something, or been found? Can losing one thing help you find something else? Are things lost or just existing in another register? My contribution, another piece from the Waste Wunderkammer, an archive […]
Date: February 3, 2018
Time: 3:00
Location: Private
placekeeping | Public Humanities

This February, join Paul Greenstein, co-author of the definitive history of the Llano del Rio Colony and PositionalProjects.org founder Karyl Newman, both will share research from the past and present at LCA’s annual potluck. Greenstein’s book, Bread and Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles is now out of print, bring your copy […]
Date: March 19, 2017
Time: 09:00-11:00
Location: Cap Rock Parking Area
Art in Place | storiesandstewardship

Join Karyl Newman this Sunday to talk trash over a cup of tea. Newman documents waste abandoned in our landscape on Instagram as @dehsart and large dumpsites @blightsites. She will share her projects mapping illegal waste deposits across our desert, identifying spots for cleanup and providing free reuse resources for artists using the app at […]