Scoring, Building

New work by Michelle JaJa Chang
Address
1137 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles 90019 Map
Hours
Only during exhibition

Scoring, Building is a new project by Michelle JaJa Chang that investigates architecture as an allographic or notational art. The work is a temporary and durational intervention in the courtyard of the Mackey Apartments. The project proposes an architectural instantiation from the basis of a score, written by the architect, which is then translated into instructions for the construction of the installation itself. The work is action-based, slowing down and reframing the activities of conventional drywall construction to focus on-site preparation (measuring, documenting, marking); framing construction (stacking, ordering, assembling), and drywall installation (scoring, affixing, finishing), rather than material assemblage. The installation is scored in three recursive “iterations”, each one accompanied by a public program in order to unpack the ideas of the installation itself. Alongside the physical installation, the project is distributed through a live audio feed of the on-site construction, and documentary photography by Tag Christof. Scoring, Building is commissioned by Materials & Applications as the winning project of an open call for projects in 2018.