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Listening to Secret Worlds with Aaron Tupac
To coincide with Fulcrum Arts’ exhibition Between the Noise, artist Ian Wellman will lead two field recording workshops in August. Participants will explore select areas along the Arroyo Seco, collect sounds, share recording techniques, and discuss the sonic properties unique to the watershed. As the local landscape recovers from the Eaton and Palisades fires, and threats…
Introduction to Field Recording: Listening to the Air
To coincide with Fulcrum Arts’ exhibition Between the Noise, artist Ian Wellman will lead two field recording workshops in August. Participants will explore select areas along the Arroyo Seco, collect sounds, share recording techniques, and discuss the sonic properties unique to the watershed. As the local landscape recovers from the Eaton and Palisades fires, and threats…
Ian Wellman: Between the Noise
Attuned to phenomena like the flow of water, the behavior of wildlife, and the humming of roadways, Ian Wellman’s Between the Noise explores the local ecologies and infrastructures of the Arroyo Seco passage in LA County. In collaboration with Trevor Baker, whose accompanying videos give visual context to the sounds gathered from the landscape, Wellman documents the…
Malena Szlam: Archipelago of Earthen Bones
Malena Szlam’s Archipelago of Earthen Bones traces cartographies of time rooted in the geologic formations of our planet. Examining volcanic lifespans to comprehend geology, this three-channel video and sound installation recognizes the divergent nature of the timescales around us. From split-second catastrophic ruptures to the slow-moving formation of mountains, Archipelago of Earthen Bones invites viewers to lean into time.…
Festival
The Fulcrum Festival is a regional celebration across Greater Los Angeles that foregrounds the union of art and science as a powerful engine of contemporary culture.
Fulcrum Festival 2024: Waves Upon Waves
Waves Upon Waves coincides with Getty-led initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, and offers audiences immersive explorations of vibrations – musical, gravitational, seismic, optical, sensing, among others – fundamental to understanding human perception and experience and highlighting the shifting nature of reality.
Sequencing is Fulcrum Arts’ online publishing platform hosting essays, interviews, video, and artworks by contributors from an array of backgrounds and fields—all of whom share an interest in finding points of connection among art, science, and progressive social change.
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SURFACE AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH KATHIE FOLEY-MEYER
Patrick J. ReedThe artist and researcher Kathie Foley-Meyer joined curator Patrick J. Reed to discuss her creative practice and scholarship on ocean memory and the territoriality and temporality of Blackness.
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- Growth
- Invisibility
- Land and Sea
- Networks
- Perception
- The Body
- Visualization
Support for Artists
Fulcrum Incubator
The Fulcrum Incubator connects midcareer artists with Southern California’s preeminent laboratories and scientific institutions to mine new areas of research, innovate new methods of artmaking, and inspire new ways of bringing science to public audiences.
Emerge Fiscal Sponsorship
The Emerge fiscal sponsorship program increases the capacity of independent artists, collectives, and small arts organizations by offering financial management, fundraising consulting, and the ability to seek funding through fiscal sponsorship.
Since 2017, Fulcrum Arts has brought artists and scientists together to tackle big challenges and explore big ideas collaboratively. We are particularly interested in the ways art and science unlock each other’s potential—how art can make scientific concepts more legible, how science can bring novel approaches and tools to art making, and how creative practice can push both disciplines into uncharted territories of discovery and innovation.