Part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Free to the public!
Based in Los Angeles, Lauren Bon is an artist who works with architecture, performance, photography, sound, and farming to create urban, public, and land art projects to galvanize social and political transformation. These “devices of wonder,” as she describes her work, are produced from her creative practice space, Metabolic Studio. With a heart for self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems, Bon seeks to inspire and uncover ways of regeneration over consumer waste. Not a Cornfield (2005–2006) turned a 32-acre brownfield in the historic center of Los Angeles into a state park; Bon’s Strawberry Flag (2009–2010) was an aquaponic strawberry farm raised at an under-purposed property that was deeded to be a home for veterans in 1888. Her 2007 work AgH20 spanned 240 miles, reconnecting the city of LA with the natural elements that made it viable: the mined mountains of the Owens Valley.