Sundown Salon
Sundown Salon started in 2001 as a casual forum for bringing an extended group of friends together to share work. On periodic Sunday afternoons the house of Fritz Haeg becomes a gathering place for the free exchange of ideas and art through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles. The events and work that is presented are framed and affected by the unique house which includes a subterranean cave-like space, a geodesic dome on top, surrounded by a series of outdoor garden spaces.
After 23 events, hundreds of participants and almost 5 years they have grown increasingly elaborate, and the network of friends has expanded exponentially with each gathering. Each salon is catalyzed by a friend with an idea, an inspiration. Knitting, boys, a dance, deliveries, a meeting, animals, haircutting, fashion, political ennui and it grows from there. Past participants have included My Barbarian, 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, Pipilotti Rist, Bordermates, Lesbians to the Rescue (LTTR), Robbinschilds, Slava Mogutin, Eve Fowler, Katie Grinnan, Eileen Myles, Liz Larner, Chris Abani and the Janfamily among many others. Sundown Salon has also staged similar events at the Schindler House in West Hollywood in collaboration with the MAK Center.
The Salon is on a Sunday throughout the afternoon, the sunset and into the evening. The 'piece' or 'project' of the salon begins with the preparation for the event, the meetings, the planning and continues as a gathering of people, exchanging ideas, all in the context of a day of focused activity, experimenting, sharing. The Salons dismiss the idea of the solitary creator in the pure neutral white box. Instead the salon celebrates the truly engaged human, responding to their time, environment, community,friends, neighbors, weather, history, place.'