tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139503712009-05-30T05:39:42.364-07:00This is the official blog of the Not A Cornfield project, a living sculpture in the form of a field of corn. The project is located just North of downtown Los Angeles on a large stretch of land well known as “The Cornfield.”not a cornfield / under spring / farmlabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11127413118751830180noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13950371.post-54711974944498891032009-05-30T05:39:00.001-07:002009-05-30T05:39:36.959-07:00

Prior to the opening of the continuing Not A Cornfield exhibition at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York, Lauren Bon (center) and Janet Owen Driggs (typing, left) work on the project's installation.Metabolic Studio photo by Steve Rowell, 2009

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On Saturday May 9th the Not A Cornfield exhibition is scheduled to open at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, in Rochester, NY. The exhibition is scheduled to continue through Sunday, July 12, 2009.This is the first exhibition about Lauren Bon’s metabolic sculpture Not A Cornfield, which transformed an abandoned Los Angeles train yard from a brownfield into a

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The project has concluded.Great thanks to everyone who participated!For information about Not A Cornfield, including questions, comments, concerns, media inquiries, book information, requests for presentations, exhibition information, or just to say hey, please don't hesitate to contact the project team:Coda:Lauren Bon and various members of the multi-disclipinary team she assembled during NAC

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For a more complete answer, the team behind the Not A Cornfield project invites you to check back again with us in late winter / early spring 2007.In the meantime, please feel free to visit our bare-bones, temporary blog.

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Cornhenge, the Not A Cornfield metabolic sculpture, was in full-bloom not long ago. For anyone who missed it in-person, at left is a shot of the flora -- and fauna -- that continues to populate the piece.Gerardo Vaquero Rosas -- agriculturalist, magician, maestro -- has worked wonders tending to the marigolds and other flowers and plants; even after recent rain, cold, and necessary trimmings,

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Large flags stood sentinel, balloons were festooned, belly dancers undulated, the buffet line and birthday cake beckoned, energetic speeches were offered, and various salutations and congratulations were exchanged last night at Under Spring.The reason for all the hub-bub? The nascent community space was utilized by the Honorable Kevin de Leon and his campaign staff and supporters as the venue of

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BOSTON, MASS. -- Three members of the Not A Cornfield team have just concluded attending the Brownfields 2006 conference. The annual gathering was co-sponsored by the federal EPA and the International City / County Management Association (ICMA). The Not A Cornfield team was invited to attend by a representative of the latter organization; she'd visited the NAC project grounds last year, during

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THURSDAY, NOV 2 @ 5:45amThe general public is invited to join in honoring the Tongva ancestors at Cornhenge, the Metabolic sculpture, in the area previously know as Not A Cornfield. The indigenous community of Los Angeles honors its ancestors through this sunrise ceremony 5:45 a.m. Please join us. Bring your songs, your drums, your dances and your heart. We will go in procession from Cornhenge

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The Los Angeles State Historic Park formally opened to the public on Saturday, September 23rd. Remarks by Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and State Parks Department officials, as well as live music and a faux train ride for children were among the festivities during the all-day opening. The Los Angeles State Park is the 18-acre IPU, or interim use park, that will be in place until the

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As spring turned to summer, not long ago, members of the Not A Cornfield project team left the NAC warehouse, heading east, on a national seed distribution trip. Team member Sarah McCabe files this travelogue:"On Monday, June 19th several members of the Not A Cornfield team set off on a journey to Rosebud, a Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota. Our mission was to help complete a ceremony

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Last week, we calculated the value of the crop placed up on the Wall of Corn. That wall was filled up, and then stripped down of the then-drying corn months ago. Some of that corn no longer remains with us.So today, we move closer to home and ask, what's the possible commodities market value of the kernels remaining here at Under Spring?(The math follows -- and please e-mail us to tell us if

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Not too long ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a report with a sassy illustration and the clever, intriguing headline, "How Corn Became Like Vegas."The subtitle: "Rising Oil Prices, Zest for Ethanol Heat Up the Futures Markets; Hedging on the 'Ags' Maze?"This July 26 Money & Investing section cover story touched on many of the issues that Not A Cornfield visitors and team members have discussed

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Having a free few moments, this blog set out today to determine how many total corn kernels are currently housed at the NAC warehouse.The answer: 60 million.The math was based on the fact that it took NAC team members 1 1/3 ag bins loaded with kernels in order to fill 1,000 large bags.So: 16 ag bins x 750 large bags per ag bin x 5,000 kernels per large bag= 60,000,000 total kernels. That includes

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Members of the Not A Cornfield, LLC Community Seeds team depart Monday, June 19, 2006 for a trip from downtown Los Angeles to Rosebud, South Dakota. Team members will assist Volunteer Network International, an organization providing aid to indigenous peoples across the Americas, in the completion of a ceremonial lodge built on the Rosebud Reservation. Seeds from Not A Cornfield will be planted

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The Not A Cornfield "clear phase" concluded May 23, 2006, when Not A Cornfield, LLC's contractual obligations with the State of California were fulfilled, and the State formally signed off on those fulfillments.The project is now, quite literally, "clear" from the Los Angeles State Historic Park.A clearing of another sort began this fifth and final adjective-named phase of the Not A Cornfield

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Under Spring presents an Overtone Industries Presentation, Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands, Act II, to be held at 8pm on June 5 and 6th at the Under Spring studio. The piece is conceived and directed by O-Lan Jones and Kathleen Cramer and will feature, among other performers, the Illustrious Theater Orchestra. Each night, a reception follows. More information is available at the Overtone

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Cornhenge, the Not A Cornfield project's anabolic monument on the grounds of the Los Angeles State Historic Park, is living up to its descriptor -- as in, it's behaving, it's metabolizing, it's decomposing, anabolic-ly.Turns out the 31 sculptures, which are composed of corn bales culled from the Not A Cornfield cornfield, have attained an average interior temperature of approximately 150-degrees

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Not A Cornfield, LLC / Under Spring is grateful to the PCC students, as well as the various project regulars, who came out last Friday night to view politically-themed video footage from the early days of the Not A Cornfield project. Unfortunately, the experimental exercise showed us that we’re not yet organized enough in our video work to ask our friends, both new and old, for their feedback. On

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The Not A Cornfield project has been mentioned in various newspaper and magazine articles, on radio and television reports, and in Internet publications and blogs. For those interested, a partial and likely inexact listing of those publications has been posted. In case we've missed your publication, or you notice other errors, please feel free to e-mail us with more information.

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As any of the estimated thousand or so of you who were kind enough to stop by to participate in "The End: A Party" last Friday evening, March 31, 2006, now know -- and hey, thanks to all of you for stopping by -- the Not A Cornfield project on the grounds of the Los Angeles State Historic Park has concluded. The black mass pictured here is approx. 80 miles of irrigration tape used in the field,

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The group Radiosonideros (Adolfo Guzmán López, Sara Harris, and Keren Ness) have created "The Roots of the Park", an evocative, informative, and captivating two hour audio documentary about past, present, and future of the Cornfield. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or download individual episodes here:Episode 1: The EarthEpisode 2: The People, the Water, and the RailsEpisode 3: The People

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The Not A Cornfield project has concluded on the grounds of the Los Angeles State Historic Park. In addition to well-chronicled infrastructure donations, and in addition to the art action's legacy -- however you, blog readers, choose to define that -- Not A Cornfield has also contributed the following "Leave Behinds" to the Park, and to the community:* A hydroseeded field of native and drought

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Episode 7: Visions for the Park

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Episode 6: The People to the West

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Episode 5: The Food

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