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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 1d

Soil Time tomorrow at 10am! Come visit the new Cesar Chavez Community Garden and learn about soil, health and natural remediation, and make your own soil and seed sculpture to take home! Hosted by Metabolic Studio, culivatLA and Prospering Backyards. Sign up here: bit.ly/46OIIPe

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 1d

The Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 in Germantown, NY closes tomorrow! The closing celebration is a day of art events and performances, including a panel at 12:30pm featuring Lauren Bon in conversation with Dan Colen, Joshua Harrison & Luke Fischbeck. Check it out! bit.ly/4h57Qoj

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 2d

Metabolic Studio's Sonics Division holds jam sessions in unique locations, using a variety of instruments and sound sculptures to tap into sound waves and vibrations. Tomorrow's Out There on dublab is a “party mix” from the Metabolic Sonics’ archives. Check it out! bit.ly/48lFlAr

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 9d

Metabolic Sonics explores the captivating sound waves and vibrations of the web of life/ Thursdays at 8:33am on dublab, we present field recordings that transport you through the power of sound. This week's show is music is from the archive, a jam from March 18, 2019.

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 16d

Each week, Dublab and Metabolic Studio transport you through the power of sound. Tomorrow at 8:33am check out Metabolic Sonic Division's jam from March 18, 2019. Tune-in, open up, and venture out there as we take excursions into evocative audio fields together. Only on Dublab!

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · 22d

Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Sep 10

Tomorrow on Out There, 8:33am on Dublab, we're playing an excerpt from 3000 Minutes, Lauren Bon’s durational work commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11—and the 3000 people killed. Composed in collaboration with Douglas Lee and performed with Brooklyn Rail on September 12, 2021 bit.ly/4m8rGj6

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our Moving Mountains tours extended through September! Friday mornings, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. Discover what's possible. Sign up here: bit.ly/45Pfpvl

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tomorrow morning on Out There, we feature our Bending the River project. Check out field recordings of removing metal shoring, placing vitrified clay pipe and rebar, and pouring concrete as we close up the launch pit in the LA River channel that diverts water to Metabolic Studio! bit.ly/45N69b6

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tomorrow morning on Out There, we're playing an archival recording from the Anabolic Orchestra, a social practice exercise where we fabricating 90 gongs and chimes ranging from 8"–30” in diameter, inspired by the ancient gong and chime orchestras of Southeast Asia. Listen in! bit.ly/3HwGyKf

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 21

Come visit us today from 3-7pm at the the LA River Farmers Market. Our mobile art studio is ready for community members to contribute to our textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Supplies provided, just bring yourselves!

foodaccessla.org/la-river

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tomorrow on dublab, we continue last week last week's conversation, part of our Moving Mountains tour. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, Topanga Canyon landslide soil and using native plants to remove petrochemicals from a former tow yard on the edge of the LA River. Listen in! bit.ly/4oM73Mo

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 14

The LA River Farmers Market is a community hub we're proud to support, hosting local growers and artisanal producers at LA State Historic Park. We're creating a collaborative textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield." Today 3-7pm!

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out our project Moving Mountains tomorrow on at 8:33am on dublab, where we'll play clips from the tour. Instead of seeing healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides as refuse, Moving Mountains treats it as a resource, inoculating distressed soil to support ecological repair. bit.ly/47u8ZCV

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 12

Lauren Bon (@bendingtheriver.bsky.social) joins Futurology talk about the Cyborg Watershed and the complexity of the infrastructural water systems that making life possible in the American West. Listen here apple.co/4fCUmiP and post any questions below!

Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today from 3-7pm, we're at the LA River Farmers Market! We're creating a community textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's seminal artwork "Not A Cornfield," talking about Metabolic's work and making creativity accessible to all. Come by!

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 7

Only four Moving Mountains tours! Every Friday in August, you can walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River, and see a former tow yard transformed by bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil. See what's possible when soil can breathe again bit.ly/3IkzNuY

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Moving Mountains is a weekly tour and teach-in at the Moon — a former tow yard transformed into a living floodplain on the east bank of the LA River. The tour focuses on debris dislodged by the…

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tomorrow on dublab, we're at “The Moon,” a former tow yard being un-developed with bioremediation. Learn about our Meandros soil columns, how our cottonwood grove dramatically reduced lead in the soil, and how we break down the asphalt we've pulled up. Check it out! bit.ly/47hj8mf

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 31

Every Friday, walk through a living floodplain on the bank of the LA River on our "Moving Mountains" tour. Bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil transformed this former tow yard into a refuge, showing what's possible with ecological repair. Sign up here! bit.ly/3IkzNuY

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 31

Join us Thursdays from 3-7pm at the LA River Farmers Market, to help create a community textile project honoring the 20th Anniversary of Lauren Bon's seminal artwork "Not A Cornfield." We're talking about Metabolic's work and making creativity accessible to all. Come by!

foodaccessla.org/la-river

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tomorrow on dublab, a virtual tour of projects at “The Moon,” a former tow yard being un-developed with bioremediation and native plant re-growth. You'll learn about our water collection, the Zanja Madra - LA's first water system, and Lauren Bon's project Bending the River. Come by! bit.ly/45sqoKS

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Come out tomorrow (and every Friday in August!) for our "Moving Mountains" tour and walk through a living floodplain. A former tow yard is now flourishing due to bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil, showing new methods of ecological repair. Sign up here! bit.ly/3IkzNuY

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Moving Mountains is a weekly tour and teach-in at the Moon — a former tow yard transformed into a living floodplain on the east bank of the LA River. The tour focuses on debris dislodged by the recent...

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tomorrow at 8:33am on Dublab, we continue our discussion about Moving Mountains. This project redistributes healthy topsoil from Topanga Canyon landslides around the city as part of Meandros, a network of soil column sculptures tended by the community creating a network of new ecosystems. Listen in!

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 16

Tomorrow on Out There, our Moving Mountains workshop from 6/27 held at “The Moon,” a former tow yard remediated and un-developed by removing asphalt and using floodplain soil, landslide soil and native plants for bioremediation. With music by Metabolic Studio's Sonic Division, 8:33am bit.ly/3IvUN1U

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Metabolic Studio @metabolicstudio.bsky.social · Jul 10

Fridays in July, be part of our "Moving Mountains" tour and walk through a living floodplain. Formerly a polluted tow yard beside the LA River, the site is flourishing due to bio-remediation and inoculation with Topanga Canyon landslide soil, showing new methods of ecological repair.

Moving Mountains Tour with Metabolic Studio - Metabolic Studio

Moving Mountains is a weekly tour and teach-in at the Moon — a former tow yard transformed into a living floodplain on the east bank of the LA River. The tour focuses on debris dislodged by the…

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