Walking Tour of La Brea Tar Pits and Carl Cheng’s Tar Pool Project

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Walking Tour of La Brea Tar Pits and Carl Cheng’s Tar Pool Project

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La Brea Tar Pits
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Free with RSVP

Carl Cheng, 2017 Art + Technology Lab grant recipient, and Dr. Emily Lindsey, Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits, tour the still-active asphalt seeps of Hancock Park. The artist and scientist will discuss the role asphalt plays in their work and in the changing environment and technological landscape. Dr. Lindsey will explain how scientists are using the exquisitely detailed paleontological record from La Brea Tar Pits to learn about the impacts of climate change, while Cheng will explain his long-held fascination with the substance and his experience experimenting with it as an artistic medium. The tour will culminate with a demonstration of Cheng’s prototype of his Tar Pool Project in LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab.    

This program is performed in partnership with LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab.

7PM tour begins at the Second Home Serpentine Pavilion by SelgasCano at La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park.