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And listen to a field recording of Butler's daughter, artist Corazon del Sol, and archivist Carolyne Aycaguer preparing for Metabolic Studio’s Special Projects in Archiving presentation of Eugenia P Butler's work on Out There, tomorrow morning at 833am on dublab!

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Shimmering Between Wondering Eugenia P. Butler - Documents of Invisibility

Come see Eugenia P. Butler at the Barn, once the home and office of architect A. Quincy Jones. Butler's incredible work uses images, alchemy and talismans as she calls out systems of domination, and explores her own, and our, collective unconscious

W/Th now through April 29, 2026!

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In this week’s episode of Out There, we listen to a physical sound map of Payahuunadü made by Metabolic Studio Optics Division. The listener patches audio cables into different locations on a map of the Owens Lake dry bed, to order to hear field recordings collected there.

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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're in Owens Valley where an 80 foot silo, formerly owned by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, has been transformed into a massive Aeolian Harp. This field recording captures the sound of the harp, accompanied by owls who live in the silo. Listen in!

The Cyborg Watershed of the American West A Jones Studio Grand Challenges Lecture featuring Lauren Bon Save the Date and plan on joining us for a lecture by Jones Studio Grand Challenges Lecture w/ Lauren Bon In Collaboration with the UofA School of Art.

Tonight at 4:30 PST/5:30PM MT Lauren Bon presents "The Cyborg Watershed of the Intermountain West" for the Grand Challenges Lecture series, tracing the path of her large-scale artworks along this hybrid natural/engineered water network central to our limited water supply.

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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're playing Lauren Bon's keynote address for the Oberlander Prize Forum IV: Soak it Up, sounds from the gigantic Aeolian Harp strung on a silo beside Owens Lake, and an excerpt from an operatic work-in-progress, Bending the River, a Rite. Listen in!

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Mandala Blessing at Metabolic Studio YouTube video by Lauren Bon & Metabolic Studio

Have you ever watched a sand mandala come to life? Today through Tuesday, from 10am to 6pm you can watch this meditative practice, sharing compassion and intention.

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Mandala 2024 This is "Mandala 2024" by Metabolic Studio on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Starting tomorrow at 10am (through Tues), the Gaden Sharte Buddhist monks will begin creating a sand mandala to bless our space, and the threshold of Bending the River's new delta for the Los Angeles River on LA State Historic Park. Join us for mandala creation, dinner and talks!

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ECHOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES IN ECO-LOGIC — MAK Center for Art and Architecture The MAK Center invites you to an evening with three leading voices in the field of ecological art and activism: Lauren Bon , Aroussiak Gabrielian , and Debra Scacco . Join us for artist presentatio...

In honor of Agnes Denes: The Future is Fragile, the MAK Center is hosting ECHOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES IN ECO-LOGIC Thurs at 6pm, a panel with Lauren Bon, Aroussiak Gabrielian and Debra Scacco, on the evolving relationships between humans, nature, technology, and infrastructure. Come by! bit.ly/3Ysg0yw

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Last week, we shared a Metabolic Sonics jam session from REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. Tomorrow on dublab, vibe out on the second half! And join us for the next REIMAGINE on Jan 5 where we'll be making prints and puppets, and starting our Tending and Mending practice

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Last month, Metabolic Sonics jammed along during REIMAGINE, our monthly print-making studio. We open up our space and our archive of donated screens to make art together, and be in community. Check it out, tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab!

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Interested in bioremediation? Check out our Meandros Toolkit, giving you step-by-step instructions on what to do when you find out you have lead or petrochemical contamination on your site. We show you how and when to use natural methods to reduce contaminants bit.ly/3Y4M3EF

Oberlander Prize Forum IV: Soak it Up Opening Reception/Keynote Speech by Lauren Bon Thursday, December 4, 5:30pm SWA Group 811 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 RSVP here We’re excited to announce that Lauren Bon is this year’s…

Tonight's Oberlander Prize Forum keynote speech by Lauren Bon is sold out but tix are still available for our Saturday workshop the Art of Disturbance! Find out how natural disturbances like landslides, wildfires, and floods can become opportunities and address systematic inequity.

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Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape.

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing answers to the question "What does Moving Mountains mean to you?" Moving Mountains is an ecological initiative diverting landslide soils once considered waste into remarkable regenerative practices transforming the urban landscape.

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AgH20: What Was Mined, What Was Diverted, What Was Left Behind at Fotofocus2025 — Water and silver. Two elements that shaped the American West and the history of photography. Water diverted from Owe... TikTok video by Metabolic Studio

Here's a clip from Fotofocus2025, with Lauren Bon talking Metabolic Studio's Optics Division and the way Owens Lake is connected to the work:

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In October, Lauren Bon gave a talk at FotoFocus 2025. The event explored photography’s part global industrialization, the impacts on social and political systems, and the economies of mining, industrialization, land use, and environmental degradation. Watch it on our Substack!

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REIMAGINE is Metabolic Studio's monthly printmaking session, where we open-source the creative process to reshape narratives, reclaim space, and redistribute creativity. Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, we're sharing our Sonic Division jam session from the 11/3 event. Take a listen!

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Terraforming Los Angeles with art, corn, and a lot of… | KCRW Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studios are "getting some hammers and sledgehammers out and ... letting sunlight and rain water hit the ground." Their canvas is LA itself.

Thanks to @kcrw.com and Brandon R Reynolds for coming to Metabolic Studio, and sharing about the living systems emerging from Topanga Canyon landslide soil, oak seedlings taking root inside a warehouse and LA River water returning to the land instead of flowing out to the sea.

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Tomorrow at 8:33am on Out There, we're sharing a Metabolic Studio Sonic Division Retreat held in a giant steel PPG silos in Owens Valley. One of the silos is also an instrument akin to an Aeolian harp with 80-foot-long "strings" on the exterior and the silos as resonant chambers bit.ly/47Cj7cz

I heard Diego explain this when I visited last month and it was ASTONISHING and deeply informative for anyone working in urban ecologies. Tune in!!

We're in LA so PST but dublab is also on demand! Last week's episode isn't up yet but it should be up soon. Here's our archive: bit.ly/4nLTLxu

This summer, we gave tours of our Moving Mountains project at Un-development 1, a former tow yard beside the LA River. We pulled up the tarmac and replaced it with floodplain soil. Soon dormant seeds sprouted and their roots pulled up the residual contaminants, remediating the land. Learn more here!

Tomorrow at 8:33am on dublab, biologist Diego Zapata, a member of the Metabolic Studio team, explains how native plants remediate land contaminated with lead at "The Moon" aka Un-development 1. We'll also play you an improvised set from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. Tune in! bit.ly/47p8Mka

The Sound Sculptures of Douglas Lee In collaboration with Lauren Bon, Dr. Martí Ruiz and the Metabolic Studio Sonic Division Metabolic Studio works within a triangle of transmission connecting… Enchanting the Floodplain

Tomorrow at 8:33am, Douglas Lee of Metabolic's Sonic Division and Dr. Martí Ruiz, from the sound sculpture workshop at the University of Barcelona, performed at the 2025 Baschet Conference in Kyoto. Check it out! bit.ly/4ofLcMN

We also demonstrate sound sculptures over on YouTube: bit.ly/3LAHONN

Ñoquisonics, a monthly sound art happening, is tomorrow 10/29, unfolding simultaneously in LA at Metabolic Studio and in Buenos Aires at cheLA. We connect the LA River, Rio de la Plata and the tributaries in between. Tomorrow's sonic offering will livestream from 2-5pm: bit.ly/47vATgc. Join us!

This weekend, October 24-26 in St Louis, Lauren Bon is presenting new work at the inaugural CIRCUS OF LIFE convening from Counterpublic, which brings together leading artists, thinkers, and advocates to imagine new ways of being in the world together.

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Tomorrow morning at 8:33am on Out There, we're broadcasting a soundscape from Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division. In this session from 2022, we accompanied our yearly ritual corn planting with metallophones, gongs, and wooden percussion.

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"Art & Science Collide" showcases Lauren Bon and other artists featured in the Getty's 2024-25 art event Pacific Standard Time, showing how artists and scientists working together can find new ways to address our world's urgent challenges.

Today at 8/10 p.m. on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App!

Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water - Metropolis Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.

Metropolis Magazine's feature "Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water" highlights Lauren Bon's "Bending the River" along with work from other artists making invisible water systems visible again—and challenging us to live differently with them bit.ly/3IRzzw5