SUNDOWN SALON 2001-2006
A Project by Fritz Haeg

Coming Spring 2009 in a special limited edition artists book.

ABOUT THE BOOK
On periodic Sunday afternoons Fritz Haeg's geodesic dome on Sundown Drive became a gathering place for an extended community of friends from Los Angeles and beyond. It was a free exchange of ideas and art through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles framed and affected by the unique house and gardens which included a subterranean cave-like space, a geodesic dome on top, surrounded by a series of outdoor garden spaces. The 'piece' or 'project' of the salon began with the preparation for the event, the meetings, the planning and continued as a gathering of people, exchanging ideas, all in the context of a day of focused activity, experimenting, sharing. The Salons provided an alternative model to the isolated solitary creator in the pure hermetic white box. Instead, the salon celebrated the truly engaged human, responding to their time, environment, community, friends, neighbors, weather, history, place.

After almost 6 years, 30 events and hundreds of participants they grew increasingly elaborate. The network of friends expanded exponentially with each gathering. Each salon was catalyzed by a friend with an idea, an inspiration. Knitting, boys, a dance, deliveries, a meeting, animals, haircutting, fashion, political ennui and it grew from there. Participants included My Barbarian, Pipilott Rist, Knitknit, Trinie Dalton, Los Super Elegantes, K48, Bedroom Walls, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Deadlee, Anna Sew Hoy, D'Argento, Amy Adler, Jeff Ono, Yoshua Okon, Dean Sameshima, Alice Konitz, Graft, Pae White, Bon & Ging, Jeff Burton, Feral Childe, Alexis Rochas, Ponce de Leon, Bordermates, Lesbians to the Rescue (LTTR), Robbinschilds, Slava Mogutin, Eve Fowler, Katie Grinnan, Eileen Myles, Liz Larner, Chris Abani and Janfamily among many others. Sundown Salon also staged similar events at the Schindler House in West Hollywood in collaboration with the MAK Center.

WITH TEXT BY:
Chris Abani, Zandra Ahl, Mark Allen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Justin Beal, Kelly Besser, Barbara Bestor, Krystal Chang, Kelly Coats, Sara Daleiden, Trinie Dalton, Julie Deamer, Joseph del Pesco, Ken Ehrlich, Malik Gaines, Adam Goldman, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Asdis sif Gunnarsdottir, Fritz Haeg, Skylar Haskard, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Anna Sew Hoy, Janfamily, Gabriela Jauregui, Konstantin Kakanias, Jennifer Krasinski, Matty Lee, Kimberly Meyer, Eileen Myles, Francois Perrin, Alexis Rochas, Emily Roysdon, Alex Segade, Linda Taalman & Alan Koch, Melissa Thorne, Matias Viegener, Veronica Wiman, Alice Wu.

PHOTOS BY:
Amy Adler, Mark Allen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Trix Barmettler, Eden Batki, Justin Beal, Bedroom Walls, Tibora Girczyc Blum, Bordermates, Jeff Burton, Kelly Coats, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Laura Cooper, Krysten Cunningham, David Dodge, Lecia Dole Recio, Ken Ehrlich, Courtney Fink, Eve Fowler, Sam Gordon, Sara Grady, Amy Graves, Fritz Haeg, Karl Haendel, Marc Herbst, Jen Hofer, Susanna Howe, Scott Hug, K48, Peter Kirby, Lauren Lavitt, Sharon Levy, Janfamily, Jeaneen Lund, Marie Jan Lund, The MAK Center, Kelly Marie Martin, Alan Marx, Alex May, Giles Miller, Slava Mogutin, My Barbarian, Piper Olf, Eugene Ong, Camilo Ontiveros, Renato Ornelas, PS, Iana Quesnell, Emily Roysdon, Dean Sameshima, Shannon Shelly, Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, A.L. Steiner, Eli Sudbrack, Elizabeth Tobias, Emile Turner, Kazys Varnelis, Nicolas Wagner, Nina Waisman, Caleb Waldorf, Kate Wall, Ulf Wallin, Michael Wells,Austin Young, Gerald Zugmann.