Schedule announced for The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Culminating Weekend!
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presents a long weekend from June 24-28, 2015 of artist programs, readings, screenings, performances, installations, conversations, city explorations, and other happenings across Los Angeles to conclude The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, LAND’s cross-country exhibition of 100 artist-produced billboards and activations, which unfolded along on Interstate 10 in 10 consecutive artist chapters beginning in October 2013. The weekend events will explore the themes of the project in relation to Los Angeles’ history, development, and continuing evolution. The culminating weekend will coincide with the launch of the final chapter of the project, with billboards by artist Matthew Brannon.
All programs free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Events and programs will continue to be added, so please check this page on our website for updates!
ONGOING EVENTS:
Exhibition of billboards from the entire journey across I-10
Artist city guide and audio guide
Chapter #10 billboards on view by artist Matthew Brannon throughout LA
Pop-up shop at Ace Hotel Downtown LA
City explorations
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24:
Opening Reception: The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Exhibition hosted by Los Angeles Confidential and Absolut Elyx
7-9pm
6820 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Join LAND to celebrate the launch of the culminating weekend and the opening of the billboard exhibition, featuring billboards from all ten chapters of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project!
THURSDAY, JUNE 25:
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Exhibition
12-6pm
6820 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Visit the ongoing exhibition of billboards from all ten chapters of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
Walking Tour: Bunker Hill/Pershing Square
11am
Pershing Square: corner of 5th Street and Hill Street
Join LAND’s Grants Manager Maryam Hosseinzadeh for a microhistory of Bunker Hill/Pershing Square and learn about the evolution of downtown’s oldest neighborhood on foot! Tour will end at Grand Central Market for lunch and will last approximately an hour and a half.
Taste the 10: Food Tour of Grand Central Market
12:30-2:30pm
Grand Central Market: 317 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Taste the cuisines that make up Interstate 10’s span across the country from the diverse vendors of the Grand Central Market!
Screening of Matthew Brannon’s Undivided Attention (Antelope) and Jeremy Shaw’s Quickeners
7-8pm followed by Artist Reception
Velaslavasay Panorama: 1122 West 24th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Artists Matthew Brannon and Jeremy Shaw will screen recent films at the historic Velaslavasay Panorama in West Adams. The panorama, which was built in the 1910s, is an exhibition hall and theater inspired by the 18th and 19th century tradition of presenting dioramas and paintings in the round. Artist reception to follow.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26:
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Exhibition
12-6pm
6820 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Visit the ongoing exhibition of billboards from all ten chapters of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
LAND Pop-Up Shop
12-7pm
Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA: 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Stop by the pop-up shop Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA to view LAND merchandise and special items created by the artists of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project. All purchases support LAND’s mission to create site-specific public art exhibitions in Los Angeles and beyond.
Tour of Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
12pm, meet at 11:45 at the Visitor Services desk
Autry National Center: 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
$8 includes museum admission; limited space, RSVP required
Join us for a tour of Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West, the first major museum exhibition to illuminate the causes and legacies of the American Civil War from the vantage point of Westward expansion. Following the tour, we’ll convene for a discussion on the Autry’s beautiful grounds.
A Night of Art Films and Music
8pm-1am
Ace Hotel Downtown LA: 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Artists Zoe Crosher/Jason Underhill, Eve Fowler, Daniel R. Small, and Bobbi Woods will screen short films at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. After the screening, stick around for DJ sets from the LA-based collective dublab and visuals curated by LAND.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27:
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Exhibition
12-6pm
6820 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Visit the ongoing exhibition of billboards from all ten chapters of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
LAND Pop-Up Shop
12-7pm
Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA: 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Stop by the pop-up shop Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA to view LAND merchandise and special items created by the artists of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project. All purchases support LAND’s mission to create site-specific public art exhibitions in Los Angeles and beyond.
Hollywood Bus Tour
12:30pm
Meeting location TBD
Limited space
Tickets are $20, RSVP required
Ever wondered what it is like to experience Hollywood as a tourist? Join us for a classic bus tour, where we’ll discuss the hopes, dreams, and failings of the timeless lure of Hollywood.
Bus tour with Esotouric: Weird West Adams
12-4pm, Meet at 11:30am
Departs from Benny H. Potter West Park: 2413 2nd Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90018 (the intersection of 3rd Avenue and West 25th Street in West Adams)
Get $10 off tickets ($48, normally $58) with the coupon code LAND-WESTADAMS2015 HERE
This quarterly bus tour, created and presented by Esotouric, happens to coincide with The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Culminating Weekend! Weird West Adams is a tour that delves into various little known stories of one of the most historical Los Angeles neighborhoods abutting Interstate 10.
“Ribbon-Tying” Ceremony with Shana Lutker
6pm
Meet outside of Mariasol: 401 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Artist Shana Lutker will host a ribbon-tying ceremony, designed to mirror her ribbon-cutting ceremony at the start of the project in Jacksonville, FL, to symbolically close The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
Artist Panel and Reception hosted by Sotheby’s Institute of Art
7-9pm
Carousel at the Santa Monica Pier: 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Ed Schad, Assistant Curator at The Broad Art Foundation, will moderate a panel discussion with artists Shana Lutker, Jeremy Shaw, Daniel R. Small, and Mario Ybarra Jr., hosted by Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Cocktail reception to follow.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28:
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Exhibition
12-6pm
6820 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Visit the ongoing exhibition of billboards from all ten chapters of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project.
LAND Pop-Up Shop
12-7pm
Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA: 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Stop by the pop-up shop Upstairs at Ace Hotel Downtown LA to view LAND merchandise and special items created by the artists of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project. All purchases support LAND’s mission to create site-specific public art exhibitions in Los Angeles and beyond.
Chapter #10: Matthew Brannon Billboard Viewing
All afternoon at your leisure
Along Interstate 10
Check out the final chapter of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, featuring new billboards by Matthew Brannon. Map of the locations here.
Slouching Towards Los Angeles Reading and Perfume Workshop
5-8pm
Private home, Hollywood Hills. Address provided upon RSVP.
Limited space, RSVP required
Journalist and writer Steffie Nelson will host a reading featuring various writers’ responses to notions of Manifest Destiny and their conceptions of Los Angeles, as guided by/in response to the work of Joan Didion. Writers include memoirist Jillian Lauren, TV writer Tracy McMillan, and arts writer Jori Finkel, among others.
In addition, Zoe Crosher will lead a perfume-making workshop with The Institute of Art and Olfaction. Crosher has created ten perfumes inspired by the locations of each billboard project chapter and at the event, with the input of guests, she’ll be creating the scent of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Filmforum: Forward to Distant Times: New Visions of the West
7:30pm
The Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian: 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Tickets available here
Los Angeles Filmforum presents “Forward to Distant Times: New Visions of the West,” a program of extraordinary experimental examinations of the history, mythology and landscape of the American west. Filmmakers Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Penelope Uribe-Abee, and Amy Halpern will be present for discussion.
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Culminating Weekend is made possible with support from National Endowment for the Arts, the Offield Family Foundation, Christopher Yin & John Yoon, Sarah Conley Odenkirk, Brenda Potter, and Darren Weinstock. Special thanks to Absolut Elyx, Ace Hotel Downtown LA, Canada Council for the Arts, Los Angeles Confidential, Los Angeles Filmforum, Santa Monica Pier, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
Thank you to Kickstarter, the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative, and all of our 153 phenomenal individual project campaign backers for making this weekend possible.
