The Magic Hour No. 4 featuring a new project by Charles Long, with Phana Phang, will open on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 4pm - sunset, and run thru Sunday, March 24, 2019.
4-HTP… For Healing the Traumas of Patriarchy (4-hydroxy-L-tryptophan and the cultivating community and ecology, in love and compassion!)
The project has begun with the cultivation of mushroom spores and it will culminate with the launching of new spores into the upper atmosphere. During these gestation days, waiting for the mycelium networks to incubate and eventually fruit as mushrooms, select participants will workshop their experiences with patriarchy’s destructiveness, whether as victim, perpetrator or witness, and choose to learn from and let go of these stories in lieu of cultivating community and ecology, in love and compassion. Their journals will be used as actual and metaphorical fuel for transformation as they are burned to heat the water for the tea made from the mushroom and the flames used to ignite the engines of biodegradable rockets containing spore filled caps to be distributed in the upper atmosphere to spread new seeds of transformation. The launching will happen at sunset, 5:02 pm, during the opening.
Charles Long (b. 1958, Long Branch, New Jersey) works in Mt Baldy, California. He received his BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, in 1981, and MFA from Yale University, in 1988. His project Paradigm Lost was presented in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2018. His solo exhibition husbands, sons, fathers, brothers was exhibited at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles (2018). Charles will have a solo exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar, NYC in January 2019.
The structure is open to the public from sunrise to sunset 7 days a week.
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