March de Lab> Fat Fringe at the FIX

March de Lab> Fat Fringe at the FIX

"We're keeping it simple this month - we're heading to the brand new Fix Gallery downtown for drinks beneath a giant, die-cut paper canopy designed by the artful (if not sliced) hands of paper enthusiasts. See you there! -alissa, haily and marissa".

Event: March de Lab> Fat Fringe at the FIX
What: Mixer
Start Time: Thursday, March 11 at 6:00pm
End Time: Thursday, March 11 at 10:00pm
Where: FIX Gallery

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"Fat Fringe" is a collaborative project between the Silver Lake non-profit Materials & Applications (M&A) and the design office Layer. The aim of the project is to explore techniques for large scale, high volume paper or thin-sheet cutting.

A die-cut paper canopy has been developed by participants in a series of weekend workshops led by designers Lisa Little and Emily White of Layer (www.layerLA.com). Through slicing, punching, and folding, paper enthusiasts have spent the past two weekends transforming sheets of paper into all species of beautiful 3D forms. Some participants used templates printed out from the program Pepakura to create hollow paper boulders formed from single pieces of carefully cut and folded paper. Others used folded splines and regularly spaced slices, creating elegant sweeps of open gills across stretched or twisted planes. Several outlaws followed their own anti-cartesian logic, creating organic insectsoidal forms. Inspiration for the designs has a variety of sources-- from 80's hairstyles to the suspended whale of the natural history museum to ruminations about the graphic merits of vintage valentine lace and oragami. The installation has slowly evolved into a form emerging from collective imagining and experimenting.

Materials & Applications is a research and exhibition center dedicated to pushing new and underused ideas in art, architecture, and landscape into view. The organization's weekend public workshops, or MatterApp events, regularly invite the public to participate in the development of unique construction projects where the final outcome is the result of experiments and itterative construction instead of preplanned, centralized designs.

The resulting innovation buds from the social pursuit of problem solving in parallel, yielding exciting final products but also new skillsets and experiences related to novel techniques and approaches. Whenever possible, M&A invites experts from various fields to kickoff weekly workshops, helping spark and direct each new phase of experiments. 'Extraterritorial' marks the second project in a series of exciting MatterApp projects happening this year outside the usual M&A Silver Lake location.

Media sponsorship by Dwell magazine, drinks by Izze, messenger bags giveaway by Cool Capitals, DJ TBA.

Special thanks to the Sofa Company.

More details to appear on the web site and email list-- sign up to volunteer: www.emanate.org

Please RSVP at www.thefixgallery.com

Last Updated: March 4, 2010