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  1. Material Acts

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  2. Jennifer Guidi: And so it is.

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  3. Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption

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  4. Michael Decker: P.S. I Love You

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  5. LA Eyeworks booklet

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  6. Ruth Asawa: All is Possible

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  7. Alexis Smith: The American Way

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  8. X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal

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  9. Cammie Staros: House of the Muses

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  10. Max Cleary: The Complex Number Zero

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  11. Lisa Anne Auerbach: Forever...

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  12. Lisa Anne Auerbach: Sweater Parade

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  13. Mashinka Hakopian: The Institute for Other Intelligences

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  14. Asher Hartman: Mad Clot on a Holy Bone

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  15. Candice Lin: Book of Secrets

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  16. Captain Charlie: Photographs of Early 20th Century China and Mongolia

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  17. LA Dept of Cultural Affairs. COLA ‘22

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  18. Pau Pescador. they/them they/she she/they

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  19. 18th Street Center for the Arts. 2021–22 Catalogue.

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  20. Made in LA 2020. Hammer Museum 

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  21. Candice Lin. Natural History: A Half-Eaten Portrait, an Unrecognizable Landscape, a Still, Still Life

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  22. Julia Couzens: Textile Tags

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  23. CalArts Creative Writing. Sublevel Magazine

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  24. Becky Kolsrud. The Ladies of Yack Court

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  25. CalArts MA. In Form 2021

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  26. Veronica de Jesus. People are the Light to Love

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  27. Rachelle Rojany. ABC

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  28. Posters

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  29. Calendars!
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Material Acts



Material Acts: Material Experimentation in Architecture and Design was presented by Craft Contemporary from September 28, 2024 to January 5, 2025 as part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The exhibition and catalog survey material explorations inspired natural processes. These materials are organized into five acts: Re-Fusing, Stitching, Animating, Disassembling, and Feeding.

Material Acts is an ongoing project curated by Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu.


Curators and Editors: Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, with assistance from Strat Coffman and Hilary Huckins-Weidner
Managing Editor: Kate Rouhandeh 
Printer: Permanent Printing, Ltd.

The catalog contributors includes Adobeisnotsoftware, After Architecture, Amy Zhang, Anupama Kundoo, Assemble, Assia Crawford, Atelier LUMA, BC architects, Caroline A. Jones, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Didem Ekici, DOSU Studio Architecture, Dylan Wood, Elsa MH Mäki, Gramazio Kohler Research, HANNAH, Hilary Huckins-Weidner, Jennifer Johung, Joar Nango, Katariina Träskelin, Lola Ben-Alon, Mae-Ling Lokko, Maru Garcia, Omar Kahn, Post Rock, Rael San Fratello, Sara Inga Utsi Bongo, SOFTLAB, Soft Matters, Strat Coffman, Sutherlin Santo, Tag Christof, Ye Rin Mok, Yogiaman Tracy Design, Zara Pfeifer, and Zofia Trafas White.

Photos: Brica Wilcox
Mark