Virtual Studio Visit: Max Hooper Schneider Aboard the Falkor (too)

Join artist Max Hooper Schneider for a virtual studio visit aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute research vessel Falkor (too), where he is currently in residence exploring hydrothermal vent ecosystems on the East Pacific Rise with Dr. Monika Bright of the University of Vienna. Hooper Schneider’s talk will be an immersive tour of his artist space onboard the ship as he weaves together his artistic practice, impressions of life at sea, and how the climate-sensitivity of underwater ecosystems influences his work.

Max Hooper Schneider (born Los Angeles, CA 1982) graduated from Harvard University in 2011 with a master’s degree in landscape architecture. The foregrounding of material technologies and biological systems within this field continues to inform his artistic practice. Hooper Schneider’s work develops and explores the aesthetics of succession through the creation of worlds that materialize and dramatize nature in diverse ways with nature conceived as a process of ceaseless morphogenic modulation, a relentless onslaught in which bodies, as formed matters, are continuously created, transformed, and destroyed. The resultant work voids the difference between the natural and the artificial, challenges conventional systems of both scientific and artistic classification, and suggests a worldview that strives to dislocate humans from their assumed position of centrality and superiority as knowers and actors in the world. Hooper Schneider lives and works in Los Angeles.

This program is presented by the Schmidt Ocean Institute Artist-at-Sea Program and hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Advance registration is recommended. To RSVP, follow this link.