How to Live in Irvine presents: The Finishing School Project at the OC GreatPark

Department: Humanities Center

Date and Time: December 21, 2014 | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Event Location: Great Park Farmer's Market - The Manifest Destiny booth

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How to Live in Irvine is a UCHRI Engaging Humanities Project supported by the School of Humanities and the Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine.

How to Live in Irvine: Model Cities, Master Plans presents
Finishing School: Pimp Your Divining Rod
@ The Manifest Density booth in Great Park Farmer's Market.
Sunday, December 21st from 11 am to 1 pm
FREE
Please RSVP to howtoliveinirvine@gmail.com

Please join us on Sunday, December 21st for the Manifest Density booth's inaugural Mini-Art Residency! Art collective Finishing School and their project Pimp Your Divining Rod at the Orange County Great Park Farmer's Market.
Finishing School's WETLAB (2009+) is a multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation.

Participants in Pimp Your Divining Rod will learn to make and operate their own divining rods and then use them to help us create a speculative water source map. Other mapped sites include Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA, Cypress College in Cypress, CA and Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea, CA.

About Finishing School
Established in 2001, Finishing School is a socially engaged artist collective that explores an expansive range of subject and media territories. The Los Angeles-based collective has six members who represent a broad range of skills and research interests. Finishing School produces interdisciplinary actions, installations, workshops, design, studio art, performance and new media. They have presented work throughout the United States and internationally. Recently, FS has produced projects for Occidental College in Los Angeles, Side Street Projects in Pasadena, CA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Hammer Museum, the 2010 California Biennial, Engagement Party: a three-month residency program at MOCA, Living as Form: a 20-year survey of social practice for Creative Time in New York, The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, and a site-specific commission for DFLUX in Detroit, MI. FS has also presented projects internationally in The Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand, England, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, and Italy. www.finishing-school-art.net