Artbound - Season 5 (2014)

Artbound's fifth season kicks off with an exciting collaboration with MOCAtv, featuring all original pieces including Wildflowering L.A., a Los Angeles county-wide public initiative by artist Fritz Haeg; a performance art video featuring the movement group WIFE; painter John Knuth's unusual practice of getting flies to "paint" on canvas; the installation and de-installation of Jacob Hashimoto's "Gas Giant" at the MOCA Pacific Design Center; and video game designers Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago known for designing games with emotion. Featuring an exclusive interview with new Director of MOCA Philippe Vergne.

Artbound digs into KCET's vaults to uncover groundbreaking arts and culture programming from the 1980's and 90's. In this episode, Artbound presents the show Earthworks, an exploration of land art featuring the work of artist Lita Alberquerque, sculptor Christo, architect Tom Mayne and more.

The Artbound episode "Without Borders/Sin Fronteras" visits Kathy Kobayashi who discusses the Shades of L.A. photography archive at the Downtown L.A. Library, which explores community-based photos illuminating diversity in Southern California. Then, Ana Serrano showcases her cardboard-constructed pieces based on her cultural explorations around Los Angeles. Next, Artbound travels to Mexicali Rose, an artist organization in Mexicali, where locals are encouraged to create art to galvanize community involvement. We also witness performances in Guatemala from Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras (Day Labor Theater Without Borders) whose work engages people who have been displaced and deported to Guatemala. Plus, experience the son jarocho stylings of L.A.-based band Quetzal.

Artbound" dives into the vaults to uncover groundbreaking 1980s & 1990s arts programming.

In this episode of Artbound, we visit the Zorthian Ranch artist community in Altadena. We also view some of the current art installations at LAX airport. Micol Hebron confronts gender inequality in the art world through her project Gallery Tally. Alan Nakagawa gives an eclectic musical performance utilizing ambient sounds collected from the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Also, graphic artist and music video director David Lewandowski takes us into his world of arcade games and modern expressionism. And super composer Daniel Lanois performs a live song from his album Flesh and Machine.

Artbound digs into the KCET vaults to uncover a gem from the early 1970s. Iconoclast writer and poet Charles Bukowski reads from his work to a live audience. Also featuring candid behind the scenes footage.

Artbound explores Social Practice arts throughout Southern California. Featuring Olga Koumoundouros' occupation of foreclosed homes in Los Angeles; The Workers' Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador, an art project by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum; Public Matters' Market Makeover project addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts," areas that have limited access to quality, healthy food; the collective Fallen Fruit, who map local public fruit trees, encouraging us to rethink our relationship to food and public space; and a performance by Moses Sumney.

Artbound travels to Southern California's desert regions. Featuring the landscape painting and video art of visual artist Diane Best whose work personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region; the Coachella artists the Date Farmers who infuse abstract expressionism with a politically charged, pop culture update; a draw-in with Hillary Mushkin's Incendiary Traces at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center that challenges participants to become conscious of militarized landscapes; the superadobe construction techniques of Cal-Earth whose experimental designs are challenging the ubiquitous cookie-cutter suburban communities in the urbanized southwestern Mojave Desert; Jackrabbit Homesteads and the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin; and the eclectic practice of Joshua Tree's "Art Queen" Shari Elf; and a performance by Daniel Lanois.