The Fulcrum Festival is a regional celebration of art and science across Greater Los Angeles. Organized by Fulcrum Arts and presented in partnership with over a dozen art, science, and cultural organizations—including the Carnegie Observatories, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, Leonardo/ISAST, Mt. Wilson Observatory, SUPERCOLLIDER, and more—this year’s robust program features exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, and workshops centered around the theme of “Deep Ocean/Deep Space.”

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Our 2022 edition looks above (to the furthest reaches of space) and below (to the depths of the oceans) and revels in the mysteries that surround us. By mirroring one abyss against another, it seeks to venture beyond what we know about the universe thanks to the extraordinary discoveries made by astronomy and oceanography.

We invite our communities to gather in the spirit of exploration and contemplate the incredible, impossible symmetries to which we all belong, just as we invite our communities to interrogate these symmetries in terms both immediate and infinite, from our critical ecological entanglements to the vastness of the frontiers that inspired this celebration.

The 2022 Fulcrum Festival: Deep Ocean/Deep Space is made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Pasadena Art Alliance, Wilhelm Family Foundation, the Swedish Consulate, and mediaThe Foundation, Inc.

Media support generously provided by dublab and Lookout FM.

Lauren Bon and The Metabolic Studio: Bending the River

Opening Reception: September 24, 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Exhibition Hours: September 24 – Dec. 16, 2022
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Pitzer College Art Galleries
1050 N. Mills Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
FREE

Lauren Bon and The Metabolic Studio’s infrastructural artwork, Bending the River reimagines the relationship between Los Angeles and the river that brought it into existence. Located on Tongva land, Bending the River is evolving through conversation with artists, native communities, activists, local communities, and the many government agencies needed in order to realize this work.

The Los Angeles River in its current form is a concretized flood control measure that moves waste water from the city directly out to sea. Utilizing the principles of adaptive reuse, the project moves a portion of the LA River water and lifts it to The Metabolic Studio, where it is moved through a native wetland treatment.
This exhibition is the first curation of this ongoing work.

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